Yes it is a bad thing for us that work in the oilfield. I understand the country is bigger than west Texas. While everyone was hating high gas prices and calling us greedy for making dang good money we were spending days or weeks away from our families. Risking our lives in a very dangerous profession in order to put a roof over our loved ones heads. Now with lower prices our wages have dropped to barely liveable. But the dangers are still there. Without even trying I can count at least 25 people that I know that are unemployed . Not due to lack of trying neither. So enjoy low gas prices because American workers are suffering while folks from other countries are pulling the puppet strings.
Southwestern Energy to cut 44% of workforce.
Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by Chinatown, Jan 21, 2016.
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Just get another (better) job. Those oil jobs never payed very good anyway. Drivers just worked extremely long hours. -
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As soon as the price of oil goes back to where it was in 2012 I can go back to work until then I have to work for pennies doing something I don't like -
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That was company driver wages. Owner operators got 100% of the Barrel Rate if they had their own contract.
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Quite often we did when DOT was not around.
Only if there was enough in the tank also.
We never did it during daylight hoursLast edited: Jul 7, 2016
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Short-term, bell-end examples are the exception that proves the rule.
When making career choices, the "big win" is usually a mirage and so, not a good metric for determining one's next move. If we are depending on being in the right place at the right time to take advantage of some brief market volatility, we will usually be disappointed. Even when lucky we see here, in the one "successful" example above, that it didn't last and raised unrealistic expectations resulting in a rather unhappy attitude about being in more typical circumstances.rabbiporkchop Thanks this.
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