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

no, sonora yard wants more drivers and i got word that they arent slowing down on the hiring one bit.

no sir, you owe me nothing, besides, i dont eat lol

 

omg i think i lost 300 bucks lol............puke!

i'm 13 bucks short of 3k lol........dont get ready to spend the money just yet boys, nabors is notorious for making mistakes on payroll, no big deal, they always catch it and pay up, if you saw payroll, its definately rocket science.

the last check i recieved was 2912 and the next week, nabors gave me a check for 56 bucks that was short, so 2912+56=2968.

so with that being said, i had 7 more hours of over time which is about 24 bucks an hour, you do the math, dont see how i only got 2987.

i just got home from my first 18 hour shift which really helps because now i'll have over 70 hours this week for my "short week". I'm going to go over my pay stub and see if everything adds up, well, i'll do my best, its extremely complicated, to make it official, give me till next thursday to make sure nabors doesnt give me anything they may have shorted that i cant find on the payroll......cool?

fair and square, right?

 

yeah, a bunch of new rigs are coming to this area and an oil company called aproach just opened shop in ozona, so i know they wouldnt do that unless things were going to be really busy. I think its free sailing here for years and some how, some way, i'm gonna get my piece of the oil field.

lol, last night would have made some people really question why they are out here in the field. Ive seen many already come and go and i can totally understand why.

i dont even know how to explain it all without making it a long story, theres alot of long stories out here, you just have to experience it.

lol, worked on a location with some good ol' boys and even though they were dick heads, i really liked it. The one guy said he was the head muther f'er and if i had to ask his guys what to do, he was gonna run me off location lol. I didnt even understand what the hell he was talking about, he was using terminologies i never heard of and then told me if i didnt know and was a water hauler, i was in the wrong buisness lol. The guy just doesnt understand i can basically tell him to f himself any time i feel like and i only have particular duties. They tell me what to do and i do it, not go and do their job......i'll personally do their job because i like to take charge and be in control of as much stuff as possible, but he's got to understand i'm not his monkey.

anyway, long story but i really liked those guys and hope i run into them again......even though i thought most of them were dicks lol, most of them ended up being pretty cool but theyre too wild, that location was a wreck.

 

most jobs as a water hauler is just in and out but sometimes, espeacially flowbacks, you stay out on location and do what they need done.

out here, you have to be fluid and expect the unexpected at any time. dudes who come into a shift expecting it to be lax are the ones who will get the curve ball thrown at them and thats when you can set yourself up for the fall. I personally think beyond all that stuff and i'm always ready for anything because i love the oil field and every thing in it. I like adversity because thats where you earn your stripes.

I personally think i'll move up quick in this field some how some way and its nights like last night where you put in your dues. This is why if i am ever someone's boss and the bs talk goes around "well he's only been doing this for so long blah blah blah", then i'll tell them lets get in a truck and i'll show you why i'm yur boss lol.

when most people are ready to give up and quit, thats when i'm ready to start and keep going. I know for a fact that if i run into them guys again, they'll remember who i am because they know i was the guy who worked till 12 noon. They all went home and i was still out there. This earns me the right to be my own man and the bottom line is no muther f'er owns me.

what i like about those guys is that they dont give a #### either way, i dont need their respect and they dont need mine, just work and be one of the wheels in the field and dont ##### and complain. we are the oil field but the oil field is more important in a sense, we are part of something greater than us and we got to do our part to keep the field going, thats what its all about.