IM READY TO GOOOO!!! Hubby......not so much

So we come from the big ol state of West Virginia, my husband and brother in law are making $10 bucks an hour and trying to make ends meet with wife and kids. (myself 2, brother 1) We are all ready for a change!!

Our neighbor works an oilfield job and told us his pay, which OBVIOUSLY perked our ears up, tells us where to go, 3 hours away, promises a job the next day if we are serious. We make the drive, call the neighbor who then says go online, then you will have to do interview, drug test, then training for 2 weeks out of state, then you MIGHT get the job. I am optimistic, they are not. He is ready to give up then and there, but we run around and get apps, most say to go online, no big deal.

We put a few apps in and I am just trying to ease minds about going out of state and work drying up and I come across this forum. I love it. Lots of useful info. We have talked about going to the WTOF <----(see I did lurk around a bit haha ) but they want jobs waiting for them when they get down there. IDK if thats going to happen. I am ready to pack up and find a place, then let them hop to iit and find a job. But again, I am an optimist.

I have a list that I have compiled from this forum of companies to try, cjenergy, sanjel, tricam, archer, pumpco, fractech, dillion, baker-hughes, halliburton, schlumberger, weatherford, feel free to add to this....

My husband has 7 years driving experience (class A, tanker and airbrake) and my brother in law has a year(class a, hazmat, airbrake NO TANKER, but neither have any experience around an oil field. This is one of their concerns.

I guess my question is what do I tell them to ease their minds? gimme some advice here, I dont want to make the wrong choice and regret it, just me and him, eh ok but Im dragging a 3 and 5 year old into this. what do you think??

 

I do realize that, BUUUUUT there has to be something better than 1200 a month with no benefits out there, I would be willing to settle for double that. Like I said, brother in law is on board too, so that means splitting housing costs. They don't want to be OTR or travel out of town regularly, that is about the only stipulation they have. Does this kind of work require that?

 

We are barely paying bills here and need to do something ASAP. Christmas is coming up and I don't want the kiddos waking up with nothing. They are with me on leaving, just a little more leery of packing up and going on hopes and dreams, which I understand. Barely paying bills is much better than just not paying them

 

Ages are 25 and 29. No stranger to the long hours. My husband was working 12-14 hours hauling coal, but they pay by the load not the hour, so in crappy equipment that regularly breaks down meant some nights with NO PAY plus an hour drive to the jobs, it was hell and he didn't do it for very long. There were lots of cons to that one, one also being that coal is going down hill and some days they would send the truckers home because nobody needed the coal. My brother in law is currently working 12+ hour days. Yes, I am seeing the money signs, I would love to get off foodstamps and not worry about what bill Im paying this month. We are also looking into the jobs a couple hours away from us as it will be easier to run up and do an interview, just seems that they are a little pickier on the experience and it takes a while to go through the process.

We are nervous about it all, Im trying to research the best I can, thank you to those who have replied, any advice is appreciated.