CUDD energy

Which equipment?

Used to talk to a lot CUDD guys in Hobbs back in the day. If you aren't going in to coil tubing you should get there soon. Frac will make you old fast. I used to work with lots of guys that were 35-45 walking around with 70-80yo bodies.

 

I'm working cudd right now in North Dakota. Keep your truck driving job this is going backwards doing frac.

 

Those Frac jobs are crappy. The only use you cuz you have a commercial license.

 

That's how I started at Halliburton. Eventually though that turned into an overseas job that I'd still be at if I weren't married.

OP, everyone I've ever talked to in the patch that was a CT hand seemed to like it, 99% of the frac hands hated life until they made into the van. If you want to make a career of it start out in cement, way more down hole thinking. Plus 2" iron is lighter.

Edit...If you're going into frac the equipment you'll be operating most will be a sledge hammer.

 

Can you elaborate?

 

It's a laborer position. I made this just driving. Some guys love it, I don't. Each there own. I think I'll go back to Foodservice delivery with my union benefits.

 

You can usually tell how long somebody's been doing this by the size of their gut hang.

 

That's for sure. We had caterering when I first started, for some reason they dropped it and paid everyone per diem. Used to go a week sometimes where everything you ate came out of a cellophane wrapper. And then there was the time I went 11 days without taking a shower.

 

So true. Yeah we just get $30 a day per diem now. Sometimes we get put in a man camp with food. I try to avoid eating out of the gas stations on the way to site, all pre-packaged crap. It's true that stuff ages you because of the unhealthy lifestyle a lot of guys who are not even 30 yet look like they're 45. I think this is a good tool to save up money or pay something off but my hat's off to somebody who want to make a career out of this. Kind of have to be a freelancer and Chase it and be a ##### to the industry.