I am looking to get into oil field once I'm 21. have 6 months experience working in food service. Will be 21 in august, so 9 months experience at that point. Will Oil field companies count this as experience? I still drive a tractor trailer I don't see why they wouldn't. I get 3600 a month after tax and benefits. Looking to double that ideally. What type of oil field driving (i.e. what kind of material, local, certain area of the country) is a good place to start (once I'm 21) that will pay what I'm looking for? Will 9 months experience be enough to start for most companies in the oil field?
Don't have kids or a wife, able and willing to move cities, states, or possibly countries at the drop of a hat.
Highest paying oil field CDL jobs to start with?
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by Outis, May 21, 2019.
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Why does everyone that wants to go to the oilfield always mention their family situation and never bother to mention what play they want to go to? I can name ten job fairs going on this month in eight different plays
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Probably post in looking for jobs might have an offer.
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Family situation = can go anywhere.
What play they want to go to? = Anywhere the pay is highest.
Good luck to you Outis.TxTugger Thanks this. -
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Also around Farmington NM, Western slope of CO, NE CO around Greeley, Wyoming, and not AZ.
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Top pay and no experience does not compute it is a magnetic opposite. Choose one or the other not both.
21 is when children your age is either in military, doing drug dealing or chasing girls while doing the least amount of fast food minimum wage hours possibe while you bring home 3600 a month. That's pretty much 43200 a year.
When I was 21 taking care of my Mares and Foals and Fillys on our Breeding farm I was 3.35 minimum wage. Grossing 134 a week, probably took home around 104.00 for 420 dollars a month, or... $5080 or so for the year.
What I got back other than money working on that excellent horsefarm raising my Foals and Fillies, about 15 pair in their own paddock and minding the mares who are near due. Just like Female women when it's about that time. Might get a 10 pound horseshoe in your skull for your trouble.
I can go on. But at 21 I cannot tell you how short life will be for you. Sleep on it a few nights and you will wake up past 55 asking yourself WTF happened in my life.
I hope a few good things do happen until then.HollyRoller Thanks this. -
If you really want to work overseas I'd suggest a service company. Give it a year and if you decide you want to spend your life looking out a windshield you'll have plenty of experience for sand or crude hauling.
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oil field can pay well but I always tell people best have a game plan when it shuts down to a crawl like its down in past, the boom may be on now but 7 years from now maybe down. It happens rather quickly when it starts had relatives in past do this and within days out of jobs, they went to coal mines or something else.
Me I have other methods of other jobs but they are on the back burner because I got burned out better paying but harder work. I intend go college later for a few things but I don't plan stay a trucker forever I have other passions I think even with less pay I rather be happy those then miserable every day. My brother took on land surveyor after years in oil field, he specializes in oil field pads and such made more money ever did in actual hauling loads for them plus always exercise doing his work.
After years he had goal operation manager in oil field and makes even more even if the oil field shut down he can work at a nuclear plant with his education and experience because during all this time he educated his self.
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