Would you work on an Oil rig or a Cargo Ship?

[Sonny Qc]

Nah, Im into 6 figures and I scroll on sherdog at work.

 

[sleepwalk]

When I was younger, maybe the oil rig so long as I didn't have to do any underwater welding. That has some horror stories attached to it.

 

[Fraz]

So it's 2 weeks off the rig and you have free time for 2 weeks? Is that how it works?

Companies match your time off with how many days you've been offshore but you can go back early depending on requirements.

If you're still employed with them and your time off is over the amount of days you spent offshore you get standby pay which is the holy grail.

I've been on it for months at a time before, money for literally nothing until they call you to go back to work.

 

[TheTickG]

Nah, working from home is enough excitement.

 

[Elvis.]

I’m afraid of the ocean, I would do it but they would have to break out the money

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

I only do like 2-3 week trips, I'm not a fan of being away for months at a time.

I'm a contractor though so there isn't much job security but if I build up a decent amount of savings will take a couple of months off work at times.

Interesting.

So when do you go back to the rig?

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Companies match your time off with how many days you've been offshore but you can go back early depending on requirements.

If you're still employed with them and your time off is over the amount of days you spent offshore you get standby pay which is the holy grail.

I've been on it for months at a time before, money for literally nothing until they call you to go back to work.

Oh wow, thanks for sharing details about your job.

 

[TenderLoving]

It depends on where you are as well, Norwegian offshore you work 2 weeks (12h days) then get 4 weeks off(!!!) paid if you are on a permanent rotation. Meanwhile on a ship usually it's 5 weeks on / off.
Before I used to test both semisubmersible rigs and ships so when I went it was always a break in regular operations and I got the joy of 16h days at a minimum lol.

I'd get a offshore job but who wants to be away from the kitties for 2 weeks a time

 

[Fraz]

Interesting.

So when do you go back to the rig?

They wanted me out over Xmas I've told them I'm not going so I'll starting looking for work again in January.

I've done one trip over Xmas before and it is depressing, having your Xmas dinner with strangers. Just felt weird.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Several family members have worked offshore. 7 on 7 off... Not life changing money but they always had money to blow.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

It depends on where you are as well, Norwegian offshore you work 2 weeks (12h days) then get 4 weeks off(!!!) paid if you are on a permanent rotation. Meanwhile on a ship usually it's 5 weeks on / off.
Before I used to test both semisubmersible rigs and ships so when I went it was always a break in regular operations and I got the joy of 16h days at a minimum lol.

I'd get a offshore job but who wants to be away from the kitties for 2 weeks a time

They wanted me out over Xmas I've told them I'm not going so I'll starting looking for work again in January.

I've done one trip over Xmas before and it is depressing, having your Xmas dinner with strangers. Just felt weird.

Just curious how physically demanding is the work?

 

[Cole train]

Sure, merchant marine was dream job, unfortunately not an option here

 

[Berserker13]

No, but I know someone who could....

 

[TenderLoving]

Just curious how physically demanding is the work?

Guess it depends, but with the level of automation on modern rigs I'd say neglible for most positions

 

[TribalDrumz]

I have a story of a pump exploding near some guy and blew his body chunks all over the ship

 

[Fraz]

Just curious how physically demanding is the work?

It's always 12 hour shifts.

Depends really, if it's a shutdown then it's all systems go as they want the rig up and running as quick as possible, so can be heavy going at times.

If it's just routine work you are out for can have quite an easy time, go for breaks whenever you want basically. As long as you have done enough to cover yourself.

There's been times when I've had like 20 minutes work to last an entire shift or 2 if you can get away with it can go back to your room and people won't even notice lol.

I once had an entire 3 week trip of chilling in a TV room all day and going to the gym because they sent me out with a different trade, no one had any idea why I was there and there wasn't any work for me lol.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Yes. Specially when I was younger.

I live with my GF and 2 cats now and I would not leave them alone for a long period of time. Back when I was single fuck yeah.

 

[Arqueto]

Mate used to work a month on, a month off, on a rig and get paid good money too. He loved it.