missing my job :(

[homersipes]

 got laid off a bit back and now I am going through withdrawls and missing it like crazy, have any of you ever missed a job and drove the wifey nuts about it? hahaha  anyways I found this video and thought it was pretty good about what I used to do and hopefully will do again  thought Id share with yall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYvX2d-fkw

[Groth]

 Great post...alotta camaraderie....
 Strangely still have dreams about a few jobs... some I didn't care for...
                                     JGroth

[Pluto]

I just quit my job in the patch. It was really bad timing on my part as most companies are laying off and I was high enough up the chain to where I was safe. It's hard to go from 110 hours a week to jobless.

[cpxxx]

Only regretted losing one job, laid off from a cargo airline job I had. All the others I was happy to leave, ecstatic even because I got a good pay off. My last proper job was back in 2007 which I quit because I was beginning to have nightmares about it. Since then I haven't had a 'job' although I've been working as a skydive pilot on and off for since then.

Right now I'm a stay at home Dad with a part time gig as a skydive pilot. I don't miss going to the office or the factory at all. I think I have it made!

[craz07]

hang in there man same boat as you, make the most of YOUR day

[homersipes]

skydive pilot sounds like a pretty fun gig    where were you working Pluto?  and yeah it is hard to go from 100+ hours a week to 40, it SUCKS hahaha I dont know what to do not seeing a sunrise and sunset on same shift.  I have talked to some people at Halliburton and they all said they should be picking back up within the next year fracking and got a ton of supervisors that gave a good word and the hiring manager said when they pick back up he will give me a call, hopefully sooner than later    if its later I will be divorced, driving the wife up the wall with watching videos and smacking my gums about it    lmfao I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQzZhj7i2zI#t=35
yeah there is ALOT of camaraderie out where I was as well, we spent more time with them than our families, so we basically became like family

[Pluto]

I was working with Warrior Energy doing flowback. I mostly worked in the DJ Basin in Colorado, but we frequently worked in ND, Wyoming, Texas, Idaho and sometimes back east.  I had some issues with the upper management and how they started treating their employees. Its a cut throat business to be in but I couldnt imagine doing anything else.

[homersipes]

flowback looked like a pretty good job. that sucks about your job man, but you are right it is very cut throat.  When I first started in ND, my dad told me once I get working in oilfield I will never be happy doing anything else.  He couldnt have said any truer words.

[hgtonyvi]

I hope You find a job. You have any special qualification?

[homersipes]

I started a new job this past monday cutting trees, its alright.  Learning a ton about trees and how to PROPERLY drop trees   hopefully wont have to be there too horribly long, I guess like Pluto stated cant really imagine doing anything but oil patch, hopefully will pick up soon a ton of people lost their jobs.  As soon as I saw oil going down fast I started looking for a job got a few calls and for the most part nobody wants to hire me now here at home because they all figure I will leave as soon as oil picks back up again and had a few state just that, but its true pay is better and I enjoy the work more than anything I have ever done before. 

[Flench]

I started a new job this past monday cutting trees, its alright.  Learning a ton about trees and how to PROPERLY drop trees   hopefully wont have to be there too horribly long, I guess like Pluto stated cant really imagine doing anything but oil patch, hopefully will pick up soon a ton of people lost their jobs.  As soon as I saw oil going down fast I started looking for a job got a few calls and for the most part nobody wants to hire me now here at home because they all figure I will leave as soon as oil picks back up again and had a few state just that, but its true pay is better and I enjoy the work more than anything I have ever done before. 

What I have been doing for extra cash for the last ten year's . It's a skill to drop a tree the right way . I can drop one on a dime no madder how big it is .

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I just quit my job in the patch. It was really bad timing on my part as most companies are laying off and I was high enough up the chain to where I was safe. It's hard to go from 110 hours a week to jobless.

While that may be true but I wouldn't want to work 110 hours a week. Last week I worked 63 and that was already 23 hours over time. You need to have some spare time also

[homersipes]

While that may be true but I wouldn't want to work 110 hours a week. Last week I worked 63 and that was already 23 hours over time. You need to have some spare time also
this is true if you are at home, but out there in oil, we would stay out for a length of time and then go home for a length of time.  I was 4 weeks on and 2 weeks off, some are 2 weeks and 2 weeks.  So when you are out there you work, then when you get home you relax and do what you want for days off.  I love 100 hour weeks, but wouldnt want it while working here at home.  we worked 15-18 hour days 7 days a week, with occasional 20 hour day.
yes Flench it is an art thats for sure, I am generally pretty good and can get within a foot or so, we are cutting around the power lines keeping them clear, quite a bit of rope rigging around lines

[Flench]

homersipes , Took me year's to learn how to sharpen the saw than it did to learn to drop trees . That rope comes in handy around lite lines . I had to cut one yesterday and I through a rope on it just in case for it was hitting the lite line and leaning all the way to that side . Doing dam county work again and not getting paid , lol .

[MrRiplEy[H]]

this is true if you are at home, but out there in oil, we would stay out for a length of time and then go home for a length of time.  I was 4 weeks on and 2 weeks off, some are 2 weeks and 2 weeks.  So when you are out there you work, then when you get home you relax and do what you want for days off.  I love 100 hour weeks, but wouldnt want it while working here at home.  we worked 15-18 hour days 7 days a week, with occasional 20 hour day.
yes Flench it is an art thats for sure, I am generally pretty good and can get within a foot or so, we are cutting around the power lines keeping them clear, quite a bit of rope rigging around lines

Ahh that explains it. I thought you'd be insane to do 110 hours regularly.