Beautiful day in the gulf
10-09-2014 | 04:24 PM
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10-09-2014 | 09:04 PM
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Well the beauty of working in the oil patch is you can live where you want. I'm a captain of an offshore supply vessel. I fly to work and fly home. There are all sort if hitches(work schedule) depending on what you get into. 28-14. 14-14. 7-7. 14-7. 28-28. These are days on and days off. I currently work 28-14. Studying now to upgrade to a big boy license and the pay rate goes up enough ill work 14-14 at some point in the near future. 6 months a year off ain't bad.
10-09-2014 | 09:24 PM
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Any of those schedules would be nice! I did a 173 day hitch in 2007, after 10 days off the office called and told me to be at the shop at midnight, I declined. A lot of jobs do not have set schedules, try not to get fooled into that. We were told to live within a couple hours of the shop. Almost 7 years of offshore burned me out completely. I did a few months in the winter out west on a drill rig when there was no work for my trade that winter, wouldn't mind doing that again if i could do it in PA or West VA, somewhere somewhat close to home.
Been doing it 6 years so far and have never had a scheduling problem. I have worked extra to help people out here and there but they have done the same for me. Maybe 4 times in 6 years have I worked extra. Always by my choice.
10-10-2014 | 04:55 AM
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Yeah, the captains mates, ab's and chiefs on the boat I was on always had a set schedule. The construction crew with exception of the superintendent all got the short end of the stick. At the time I truly enjoyed it, however it was not uncommon for the average hitch to be 90 days for us.
10-10-2014 | 07:31 AM
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From: 29°50'49.74"N 95° 5'17.55"W.......TEXAS
I used to work 90 on 21 off in the Bay of Campeche back in the 80's. It was by choice as I was trying to get a nest egg together to start a business. I can remember the excitement that would build when I had less than a week to go, praying for decent flying weather so that I wouldn't have to ride a crewboat for hours.
