I'm a stone cold rookie, gonna work the texas oil fields

Concentrate on working SMART, not HARD.

 

Good luck to you. I've been around the patch and pipeline constrcution for over 55 years.

 

I went the same route after graduating Sage in June. Hired on with a local company at the end of June for hauling water.

In my opinion it's fun dirty work. Every day is a little different, and I have only been doing it a little shy of three months. It can be a little monotonous at times when hauling water to the same location over and over again from the same water well, but the roads constantly change due to weather, traffic, and lighting. Those potholes/ruts you see during the day may look totally different during the night. And that nice newly graded smooth lease road may turn into one big 5 mile long rut after a rain storm and some heavy trucks using it.

The company I work for is a Servicing company; we work fresh, production, flowback water, Frac and Poseidon tanks, heavy equipment, crane, frac and oil heating. It can be dirty hard work at times. But overall I enjoy it...keeps me fit, and is interesting to work different aspects of the Oilfield.

And the money is good.

 

Good luck man! I just got my cdl too. I am looking to go that route myself so I am eagerly reading your posts!

 

When you see those pumpkin trucks, doesn't it make you feel good that yopu're gonna work in the patch?

 

You can't be serious I can only think of a few things I'd never tell my boss... and that's definitely one of them.