Inquiring about rigs

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thaloot

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does anyone on here have any connections on how i can get hired onto an oil rig, out west, in canada? need a change of scenery and looking to make money, work hard, and pay off school. recently graduated architectural technology but dont want to start that career quite yet. currently living in ontario. a buddy of mine is ready to quit his insurance job and head out west with me, as long as we find a job on a rig. preferably close to edmonton, or a larger city where we can drink and hit bars on the wknd, but out in the middle of nowhere would also suffice. can handle physically demanding labour quite well.

any help would be appreciated.

heres persuasion, if you otherwise think this thread is useless and a waste of your time....

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its not hard to get a job on a rig. have friends that have done it..

also, you can forget your plans to go out to bars on the weekend.. because you simply will not have weekends. its not a 9 to 5 job with weekends off. you will most likely work 7 days a week, and be putting in 80 hours a week, with very little time off.
 
true enough, by wknds, i meant days off. yaya apparently 12 hour days and 7 days a week and few days off every once in a while? i meant about them days off, just currently drowsy. got any info then by chance? i checked a few companies online and it appears, or whatever, that they arent hiring much
 
Ok this is right up my alley. I put everything on the line in June and drove 12 hours to Nisku, Alberta ( the town you need to go to, as this is where majority of the oil rig offices are ) seeking a job. I learned a lot, the main thing is this is the "slow" season for rigs, because it is very weather dependent this time of year. Too much rain, that rig ain't moving. The rigs that are running like beasts this time of the year are not home to "green" (new) workers. From what I hear september/october is when things start picking up. Winter is booming for rigs. I personally plan on going rigging at the end of september ( currently working at a factory for now ). You will need $600-1000 for proper gear. A lot of the time you will not be working on a camp and be responsible for your own accomodation; they do give $140.00 a day Living Out Allowance which is non-taxable, however, you will not see any of this until your first cheque, so again, $1000.00 for living expenses till you get rolling is ideal. Also the standard work period is 14 days on 7 off, the odd company offers 20 on 10 off. For courses you need a minimum of First aid level 1 for industry and H2S alive. They should train you the rest if needed. Last but not least, you will most likely be expected to show up on site on your own, so a 4WD vehicle is ideal, don't expect to carpool with these people because most of them are pricks. My bad if this puts a damper on your plans, but I was in your shoes a month and a half ago and got slapped with the reality, so I will do whatever I can to save you that trouble.

Poundtown.
 
Hollaaaaay back after a decade-long NS hiatus ???

... anyways was cool. Funny because the experience was itself, years ago. Squeeked in just before the 2014 recession. We landed on the newest, most technologically advance rig in Canada. Beaver Drilling's Rig 15. Paid off my full college debt.... $25k... all on my Visa.. within the first 6 months ?. It was a 5 year plan - and was a 5 year run. Needless to say I saved zero money. And had a much needed, humbling of an experience.

Also, I'm drunk..... a functional drunk. And married. To a brunette tho. I introduced her to skiing. Naturally.

Love you guys. It's been 13 years ?

... by the way, has anyone ever figured out how to get to Chad's Gap?... could never figure that 1 out
 
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