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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#877761
02/25/14 04:05 PM
02/25/14 04:05 PM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 2,838 Parts Unknown
Cletus
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 2,838
Parts Unknown
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I agree young and single I would be leaning that way. Life experience and job experience would be high........and the money sure wouldn't hurt.
Disclaimer: I have not worked in the oil fields.
Last edited by Cletus; 02/25/14 04:06 PM.
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Solo]
#877772
02/25/14 04:10 PM
02/25/14 04:10 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 15,547 Panhandle Florida
PaschalBD
Used to be TiderBD
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Used to be TiderBD
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Posts: 15,547
Panhandle Florida
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I have no experience to help, but 25 and single I would go for it in a heartbeat. X infinity!!!!
A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
USAF Veteran
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#877788
02/25/14 04:17 PM
02/25/14 04:17 PM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 5,920 Cullman
CKyleC
(Can't Keep It Up...)
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(Can't Keep It Up...)
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 5,920
Cullman
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Sounds like a trade off of a few years work for a comfortable rest of your life. I'm 32. I wish I could go back to 25 and do something to make me debt free now. And I don't have a lot of debt when compared to others my age. If you could handle being in another country for 6 months, I'd do it. But, then again I've never worked in oil fields or overseas.
"In Alabama, we prefer to kill small bucks on big properties"-Turkey247
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#877803
02/25/14 04:22 PM
02/25/14 04:22 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 5,921 alex city
oakachoy
12 point
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12 point
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alex city
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A friend of mine retired doing that same thing. The only caution I would throw out is to make sure you know where you will be. If you get any further north that shaaadinngg noise you hear wont be a wrench dropping but may be a ricochet.
WM Hunter "Trump literally sacrificed himself, his family and all of his businesses for this country. He literally is a true American hero. And True American Patriot - warts and all."
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: sippy]
#877838
02/25/14 04:39 PM
02/25/14 04:39 PM
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257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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N. Bama
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And I bet you can find you a hot saudi chick over there and have one here and there. That way you get tired of one just wait a few days you'll be back to the other one.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#877851
02/25/14 04:45 PM
02/25/14 04:45 PM
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Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 44,211 North Alabama
Wiley Coyote
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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North Alabama
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IF you go, always remember that you are an American and never forget that THEY hate us.
I firmly believe that a double gallows should be constructed on the East Lawn of The White House. Politicians who willfully and shamelessly violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America should be swiftly tried and, upon conviction, publicly hanged at sunup the day after conviction. If multiple convicts are to be hanged they can choose with whom to share the gallows or names shall be drawn from the hangman's hat to be hanged 2 at a time.
NRA Life Member
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Wiley Coyote]
#877863
02/25/14 04:49 PM
02/25/14 04:49 PM
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Posts: 25,974 Prattville, Alabama
Skullworks
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Posts: 25,974
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IF you go, always remember that you are an American and never forget that THEY hate us. Amen!!!!!!!
"I'm not near as critical about how big they are as I once was. Smiles are more important now! We will grow more deer." Jimmy G.
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#877955
02/25/14 05:28 PM
02/25/14 05:28 PM
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Posts: 13,912 AL
hunterbuck
Booner
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Booner
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Posts: 13,912
AL
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Oilfield here. As others have said, do it while you're young and single. I wish I'd gotten into the oilfield when I was younger and single. One of my lab techs that works for me was a driller for several years offshore, and has worked all over the world with Diamond. Single guy for most of it. Dude is a millionaire, without a care in the world at age 45. He is happy just being a lab tech now...it's not about the money. He loves the 7 on, 7 off schedule and sleeping in his own bed every night after 20 years of offshore worldwide.
"You think I care? Roll Damn Tide"
Have you tried Google?
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#877972
02/25/14 05:32 PM
02/25/14 05:32 PM
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Posts: 16,982 Madison
BowtechDan
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Madison
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Negative- I'd be gone 6months out of the year. It be hard as hell to raise a family. Just being away from everything I love.
Military folks do that all the time and get paid a whole helluva lot less.
Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#878007
02/25/14 05:46 PM
02/25/14 05:46 PM
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Posts: 18,070 Andalusia, Al. Covington Co.
DEADorALIVE
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 18,070
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General consensus is...Go for it! I'm typing this from about 200 miles ENE of Rio De Janeiro right now...granted, Brasil ain't Saudi Arabia, but like you, and others have said, the money is great. I'm 51, married, with kids and a grandson...don't much care for being gone 6 months a year, but you get used to it. And did I mention the money is great? Money won't buy you happiness, but it WILL afford you a whole different class of misery! Wouldn't hurt my feelings to spend the rest of my career in the oilfield overseas.
Well behaved women never make history.~ Out back Quit laughing...I think I broke something.
Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...
I have OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but only for a minute.
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#878245
02/25/14 08:33 PM
02/25/14 08:33 PM
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Posts: 630 Slapout AL
junglemedic
4 point
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4 point
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Posts: 630
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I did 28/28 in Brazil and I enjoyed it except I am married and have kids so it was hard. Your single, the money is good and you are young so I say go for it. My advise to you is try to work a little while at home because all that time home boredom sets in and you can burn through some money. Just pick up some partial hitches here and there and you really can banks some money for your future. Good luck. Just my 2 cents worth.
" I don't kill innocent animals, only the ones who look guilty"
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#878247
02/25/14 08:35 PM
02/25/14 08:35 PM
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Posts: 51,971 Round ‘bout there
Clem
Mildly Quirky
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Mildly Quirky
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Posts: 51,971
Round ‘bout there
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If you're 25 and single, you have no family to raise unless you have some kids already.
Go to Saudi, experience life, see new things, expand your horizons and make some money. Live frugally and invest it wisely so you don't have to work your ass off when you're older.
This is the prime of your life. Take advantage of it.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Re: Anyone ever worked overseas in the oilfield
[Re: Curdog]
#878351
02/26/14 03:57 AM
02/26/14 03:57 AM
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Posts: 5,715 Henry county
coldtrail
12 point
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12 point
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Posts: 5,715
Henry county
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You have to decide, everyone is different. I hate being away from home. I couldn't do it for any amount of money. I used to drag up on a lot of out of town work. You may be different.
"And the days that I keep my gratitude Higher than my expectations Well, I have really good days" Ray Wylie Hubbard
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