What wouldn't you miss about working in the patch??

[Dragin]

I find myself frequently sitting on location waiting on rigs or hotshots or anything related to the industry. When my time would be much better spent sledding or quading!

So I'm curious what things wouldn't you miss about working out here if you ... Oh I dunno... Won the lottery?


I'm gonna start with I wouldn't miss watching the rig pound casing in for 12 hrs.

 

[PowMower]

I wouldnt miss a thing about leaving alberta. I honestly couldnt imagine living there full time. You diehards I give you props!

 

[overkill131313]

when I used to work on a service rig, I wont miss working 42 days with out a day off..... and having a car payment of $800 a month, and not have the time to enjoy it......you could not pay me enough to live in alberta......I love the mountains, lakes.......when I sit on my deck next to the lake.....alberta just doesnt have that!

 

[Free Rider]

I wouldn't miss all the fresh powder days riding with the boys cause I sure miss alot of them working out here. But it makes it all worth it on Payday!!!

 

[Snowdin]

I wouldn't miss living in a shack 24/7 for mega days in a row listening to frac units and coil tubing units screeming non stop. OMG I need some time off.

 

[Mike270412]

Leaving Hinting at 5am with my gross 7/11 sammiche to take my chances on the Willow Creek 500.

 

[gibsons]

when I used to work on a service rig, I wont miss working 42 days with out a day off..... and having a car payment of $800 a month, and not have the time to enjoy it......you could not pay me enough to live in alberta......I love the mountains, lakes.......when I sit on my deck next to the lake.....alberta just doesnt have that!

I didn't think you guys would make payments, you just pay in cash for everything.lol

 

[imdoo'n]

i'd wouldn't miss the on call bs. riding the friggin sleds at work, riding the friggin quads chasing down pipeline, the outdoors, the friggin friends ya meet on sites that phone ya and seem to think ya want to work. oh i hate workin. being my own friggin boss. work sucks. BC is nice but who wants to live there, ya can't make a livin, no flat land to build on, car wrecks in yer front yard, livin in trailers, every ying yang and singh livin in yer back yard, sales friggin taxes, no work ya can keep it. i'll visit every once in a while. have met a lot of good peeps there. makes all the difference though.

 

[DRD]

I wont' miss living out of a suitcase, saying Happy Birthday to my kids from a compressor deck, driving, flying and having to take those dumb azz safety orientations over and over again.

 

[KawisakiRider]

The cold.....

 

[andystepper]

being oncall for 9 days straight. having to change out geo workstations and printers ASAP when they only use them for the EDR or to monitor gas. like seriously, you dont need your f'in printer at 3am.

 

[popeye]

I wouldn't miss flying two hours to stay in a piece of chit camp to stay there for two weeks missing all the stuff the kids are doing at home. I have said it every winter this is my last last winter but this winter is going to be.

 

[overkill131313]

I didn't think you guys would make payments, you just pay in cash for everything.lol

it was my first 42 days working up there when I woke up and found a new job.....in a sled shop way back when! lol

 

[senorjeem]

I would totally miss the high pitched whine of over payed, under qualified consultants. HAHAHAHAHA

 

[eclipse1966]

i'd wouldn't miss the on call bs. riding the friggin sleds at work, riding the friggin quads chasing down pipeline, the outdoors, the friggin friends ya meet on sites that phone ya and seem to think ya want to work. oh i hate workin. being my own friggin boss. work sucks. BC is nice but who wants to live there, ya can't make a livin, no flat land to build on, car wrecks in yer front yard, livin in trailers, every ying yang and singh livin in yer back yard, sales friggin taxes, no work ya can keep it. i'll visit every once in a while. have met a lot of good peeps there. makes all the difference though.

funny, I think the exact thing about Alberta. As for making money in BC, not sure where that myth comes from either. Most of my friends who live here do very well. Anyway, I guess to each his own.

 

[RMK Junky]

Honestly it's been a good life. Always enjoyed my job and most of the people around me. It is taking a down ward spiral now with a new work force generation. You really have to bite your lip and put your hands in your pockets. Be a terrible shame to hurt someones feelings.....

 

[Motopsycho426]

12 hour nightshifts, they are slowly killing me.

 

[I'vegotthenutz]

Best job out there imo...

 

[byronkentgraham]

Getting calls at 11:30 when i'm already half in the bag or have plans ride, telling me we got a frac-tank set up tomorrow and i need to be at the shop for 5:30

 

[Open Season]

All of the political bull, There is no way that it should take 3 weeks to go through the process to chage a 1'' valve for example.