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brazz · 07-11-2002, 01:35 PM

Talking about sucky jobs? Beat this one:

I worked for some oil companies, one of them Halliburton, which is currently in the news because it was (mis)managed by vice President Dick Chenney.
My job was to put several tools inside the oil well and take measurements of physical properties, like resistivity, porosity, radioactivy, etc, so as to tell if there was petroleum, which depth it was, how much, etc.
An ordinary job, if everything was OK, lasted 24 - 36 hours. The rental of an oil platform is very expensive, so, once the oil well is assigned to you, you are not supposed to stop working until you finish (I had to eat, wash, sh*t, etc in short non official breaks); take a break to sleep was inconceivable.

Then, at this one job, I flew in Sunday afternoon (the platform was 150 miles off Brazilian coast); I started checking my stuff, Sunday night the well was turned over to me; Monday night, the tools get stuck close to the bottom of the well and I had to start a fishing job (*I* was responsible for the job, had to be awaken all the time) which lasted 24 hours; tools get out, I have to check them all over again; I was close to finishing the job, my base didn't want to send someone to relieve me (helicopters are paid by the flight, and are expensive); Wednesday afternoon, the tools get stuck again (now, even if paid, helicopters wouldn't fly out, for security reasons); I had to take another fishing job until Thursday morning, when someone came to help me.

Can anybody imagine that? From Sunday through Thursday, not allowed to sleep (until 48 hours, you feel sleepy, but after that you just walk and talk like a zombie), several big dicks asking what YOU are doing to their US$ 100 million well? That's what I call a sucky day/night job.

If anyone found this job interesting, they always have openings for young people. Go to
Schlumberger and
Halliburton
and check out the wireline jobs section.

07-11-2002, 01:35 PM
brazz Confirmed User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 135	Talking about sucky jobs? Beat this one: I worked for some oil companies, one of them Halliburton, which is currently in the news because it was (mis)managed by vice President Dick Chenney. My job was to put several tools inside the oil well and take measurements of physical properties, like resistivity, porosity, radioactivy, etc, so as to tell if there was petroleum, which depth it was, how much, etc. An ordinary job, if everything was OK, lasted 24 - 36 hours. The rental of an oil platform is very expensive, so, once the oil well is assigned to you, you are not supposed to stop working until you finish (I had to eat, wash, sht, etc in short non official breaks); take a break to sleep was inconceivable. Then, at this one job, I flew in Sunday afternoon (the platform was 150 miles off Brazilian coast); I started checking my stuff, Sunday night the well was turned over to me; Monday night, the tools get stuck close to the bottom of the well and I had to start a fishing job (I* was responsible for the job, had to be awaken all the time) which lasted 24 hours; tools get out, I have to check them all over again; I was close to finishing the job, my base didn't want to send someone to relieve me (helicopters are paid by the flight, and are expensive); Wednesday afternoon, the tools get stuck again (now, even if paid, helicopters wouldn't fly out, for security reasons); I had to take another fishing job until Thursday morning, when someone came to help me. Can anybody imagine that? From Sunday through Thursday, not allowed to sleep (until 48 hours, you feel sleepy, but after that you just walk and talk like a zombie), several big dicks asking what YOU are doing to their US$ 100 million well? That's what I call a sucky day/night job. If anyone found this job interesting, they always have openings for young people. Go to Schlumberger and Halliburton and check out the wireline jobs section.