frock
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The oil debate is gonna be an endless battle which hopefully doesn't take forever to straighten out and get the economy stabilized. I've been working on a drilling rig in some way, shape or form since 1997 and am tired of it. If I can squeeze another 10yrs out of it great but as of late I have been pondering a career change which is kind of scarey going on 40 with a wife and young kids under the age of 10.
Do it crazy, over 20 years ago I was in the same boat as you. I was coming home after racking the rig in 3 ft of mud (cats were pulling trucks around the lease) and decided that I was going nowhere and needed a change. I took the first power engineering course in Fort St John at the Northern Lights College and came out with 1/2 my 3rd and all levels of Gas Processing. I got a job right out of the course and it's been the best move I ever did, I am home every day to see my family, I have a decent benefits/savings package, I get tons of time off and I make twice as much as I ever made on the rigs.