Oilfield Work to Pay for CDL and School for Wife

I am looking to get a job in one of the boomtowns somewhere so I can pay for driving school for my wife and get a CDL for both of us so that we can go OTR. Ultimately, we will probably be getting into expedited freight but that is here nor there. Our situation is that we currently live in the Philippines and finding a place to stay is difficult enough. I cannot sit around and wait for a dream job so I need something quick. I am sure there are plenty of equipment operators and such needed in the Oilfields but I wonder if some of the drivers there may be able to tell me more about what types of decent paying jobs are available in the oilfields until I can get my CDL back and so I can hopefully, save up enough money for my wife to get to school.

Thanks

 

Actually, I meant finding a job so that I could pay for it out of pocket, though I am curious as to what you are referring to. If I do end up going back solo for a while, that could be the ticket I am looking for. As for my wife, she has no real experience in anything other than a two ton LD truck here so I prefer she go through the schooling before she even thinks about trying to get out on the road.

So, what are these training companies of which you speak? Please bear in mind that I have been off the road for some twenty years and out of the country for about eight.

Thanks!

 

Actually, in the other post I was looking at the Boomtowns throughout the far Northern reaches of the West and Midwest. I do not expect any offers, I do not expect any charity and I do not expect any favors. I do expect that there are people out there that are aware of the types of jobs that may be available in lucrative markets and then I will have a better idea of just how I can go about getting work, supporting my family and improving my life ... ultimately getting back on the road where I want to be. Perhaps I should have phrased the comments/questions more specifically but I hope that it would be understood, different keywords will bring different search results and ultimately, different people to the different posts ... such was my intent anyhow.

Wasn't there something about some road being paved with good intentions leading somewhere hot? I shall work on improving the preciseness of my questions so as not to appear redundant ... or even rhetorical.

 

Not looking for a sure thing or I would be waiting here forever. However, what I am trying to do, is to find out what types of work are more prevalent in certain areas so that I can increase my chance of rapid success. It is all going to be hard work but imagine if you will, moving into the inner city right now and looking for administrative or IT work with real unemployment rates hovering around twenty percent. Now imagine thumbing a ride to get to some isolated spot where they desperately need people with your skill sets.

All I am asking is what types of jobs seem to be prevalent. Equipment operators? Dockworkers? Freight Handlers? Laborers? I am pretty sure that some of the drivers that have gone through these places have seen Help Wanted signs and/or picked up a paper from time to time. Unfortunately, American newspapers are pretty rare in the provincial location I live in at the moment and I do not know about you, but I never trusted recruiters or salesmen when it came to them selling me something ... even if they are out to make a decent living, they have too much at stake. As for me, just looking at which areas would be best to go to for my particular skills so I do not end up flipping burgers for not enough money to pay the rent, much less get back in a truck any time soon.

Thanks