Post: #76

Suggest reading My House Has Wheels on kindle. If there's an RV (not mobile home) park with Electricity, Water, Cable and Internet, that could be a pretty good solution for housing while moving around. Only problem is most RVs aren't winterized.

Post: #77

(07-19-2012 07:08 AM)Roosh Wrote:  Here's another article on the boom:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/e...story.html

There is a huge demand for day care centers. Start a chain of them... hire women with psych degrees to run it.. they're desperate for work.

That was a really good article, I especially like the quote from page 4....

`Finding workers is a challenge, too. A billboard for Precision Drilling says the company is “looking for a few toughnecks,” a play on the term “roughneck,” for oil worker. Whiting Petroleum has 180 openings in the area. “You can’t find the warm trained bodies that you need. We are in full-time recruiting mode,” said Jack Ekstrom, Whiting’s vice president of government and corporate relations......`

You know its busy when they`re just looking for `warm bodies`!

Post: #78

(07-15-2012 02:49 PM)Fisto Wrote:  Guys, it's official. I got the offer letter of employment on Friday. I'll be a "Lead Measurement While Drilling Engineer".

1st year I'm supposed to make between 70-80K then the second it's supposed to jump to close to 200k

I work 2 weeks on 2 weeks off for 12 hour shifts. (I'm told the most I'll have to work at a time is 6 hours and then I just have to be within one hour of the rig in case something happens)

It's work that mostly takes place inside and so I won't be killing myself outside in the cold during the winter.

This is probably the best possible scenario I could have hoped for. I'm supposed to start training which lasts 3 months on August 1st in Utah. The only thing that can possibly stop me now is passing a background check and I should be all good with that.

All that said, I don't recommend coming up here unless you have the income to sustain yourself while waiting for something to pop. I was getting pretty frustrated as you all know. This place is a shithole with basically shitty people (although I did meet some great ones).

Anyway, I'm pretty psyched, those 2 weeks off are going to be me traveling to some badass places!

Congrats man. Be sure to let us know how training goes and come back and report on your experiences.

Post: #79

(07-19-2012 12:43 PM)Fisto Wrote:  There is almost no retail space ... There's also almost no housing.

Fisto is getting rewarded for hustle. I skeptical about his $200K forecast for next year. Maybe that's what experienced people are making this year, but they were in the right place at the right time.

Consider the other opportunities. Offhand, roughnecks will spend money on gambling, booze, and women. Private stripper parties have merit, perhaps BYOB. Real estate has got to be good if you can get information and deals. Fisto has the looks and game to get local girlfriends, so he doesn't need to fly out all the time. It seems to me that social contacts could be levered during his off time to create opportunities.

In five years, Fisto is not going to be a petroleum engineer. He might be a manager of some sort. But I think he has entrepreneurial inclinations. Find out what they need up there and supply it in your off time.

Also, I have concerns about finishing education. Soon there will be a more stable labor supply, along with Starbucks and McDonalds. They will stop hiring "warm bodies" and screen based on degrees. You could get a cushy higher-paying job with a degree.

Post: #80

Divorco, those cushy higher paying jobs are dead, and the ones that are left are gonna be given to dumb broads with masters degrees in fuck-all studies so that way the company meets their quota without risking anything of merit.

Post: #81

(07-16-2012 03:15 PM)Fisto Wrote:  party bus/vegas whore plan that I think would make a killing.

I agree. I want to get money in on that.

Aloha!

Post: #82

Congrats man. While you have down time, I'd research flyer talk , blogs like the frequent miler and so on so you can set up systems to rake in the frequent flyer points. These guys get around $30k cash equivalent per year in airfare points. But they do things with gft cards and so on, and spend active amounts of time on it. You might get around $10k

Post: #83

(07-19-2012 07:10 PM)Divorco Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 12:43 PM)Fisto Wrote:  There is almost no retail space ... There's also almost no housing.

Fisto is getting rewarded for hustle. I skeptical about his $200K forecast for next year. Maybe that's what experienced people are making this year, but they were in the right place at the right time.

Consider the other opportunities. Offhand, roughnecks will spend money on gambling, booze, and women. Private stripper parties have merit, perhaps BYOB. Real estate has got to be good if you can get information and deals. Fisto has the looks and game to get local girlfriends, so he doesn't need to fly out all the time. It seems to me that social contacts could be levered during his off time to create opportunities.

In five years, Fisto is not going to be a petroleum engineer. He might be a manager of some sort. But I think he has entrepreneurial inclinations. Find out what they need up there and supply it in your off time.

Also, I have concerns about finishing education. Soon there will be a more stable labor supply, along with Starbucks and McDonalds. They will stop hiring "warm bodies" and screen based on degrees. You could get a cushy higher-paying job with a degree.

I could make a killing up there with my background. Already got the emails and didn't even send my resume out. You guys would shit if you know what they are willing to pay me to fix electronics inside of a shop. Unfortunately I'm "banned" from the U.S. porque taxes until October.

Can't go to Canada due to a DUI, so that leaves Brasil, the OZ, and China.

If you're smart and motivated, you'll run rings around the oilfield trash. I worked with one of the premier companies in the Gulf, the one that raised the Hunley, and know the deal. Having a marketable skill is imperative in this world.

Don't believe me? Ask Houligan Harry what the world is paying for diesel mech. 3 of my friends/coworkers are almost in Aussie now. And getting paid HUGE.

Post: #84

Does anybody on this thread know what the demand for firefighters or EMTs is in the oil business?

Post: #85

(07-19-2012 07:10 PM)Divorco Wrote:  

(07-19-2012 12:43 PM)Fisto Wrote:  There is almost no retail space ... There's also almost no housing.

Fisto is getting rewarded for hustle. I skeptical about his $200K forecast for next year. Maybe that's what experienced people are making this year, but they were in the right place at the right time.

Consider the other opportunities. Offhand, roughnecks will spend money on gambling, booze, and women. Private stripper parties have merit, perhaps BYOB. Real estate has got to be good if you can get information and deals. Fisto has the looks and game to get local girlfriends, so he doesn't need to fly out all the time. It seems to me that social contacts could be levered during his off time to create opportunities.

In five years, Fisto is not going to be a petroleum engineer. He might be a manager of some sort. But I think he has entrepreneurial inclinations. Find out what they need up there and supply it in your off time.

Also, I have concerns about finishing education. Soon there will be a more stable labor supply, along with Starbucks and McDonalds. They will stop hiring "warm bodies" and screen based on degrees. You could get a cushy higher-paying job with a degree.

Way too caught up on the degree bs man. I work 40 hours a week and dwarf the enginneers salary who hired me. Job opportunities all over, to include ND. With my experience I would
Be majorly underpaid at 100k in ND and I've never stepped foot in a college classroom.

Post: #86

Well, I am a week away from deciding if i go to ND. I just need to see if I get a real cool job in my field first. I find out in a week or so.

Post: #87

first off mad respect for guys who work in places like north dakota on oil rigs. my friends brother works some technical job in the oil industry in wyoming only 12 days a month and makes 200k. while jobs are not guaranteed if you are young, decent shape, drug free(employers try to weed out meth heads), and hard working there are jobs to be found in wyoming, north dakoka, alaska and other cold middle of nowhere states. just be prepared to freeze your ass off and be away from nice looking women while you make bank.

thanks for fisto and others for sharing their experience. its a motivator for guys who are willing to take risks and make a financial payoff without starting a company or working in corporate america.

Post: #88

Its about to get fucking cold over there! Good Luck Guys. Alot of job openings probably now with it getting so cold.

Post: #89

What are some of the best paying jobs? I plan on going late 2013 and i want to make the most cash i possibly can in 2 years of working there before i go to college.

Post: #90

Fisto how old are you ?