[QUOTE=Fraqrat;84603]Im not in the “no Yankees” crowd I have several good friends from New England. This isn’t standard down here and it isn’t a low end pay local job. If you’re a licensed guy and you wanna make $700 to $800+ a day you will figure out how to get to the interview.[/QUOTE]
You could also just go with a Drilling Company and not worry about it is my argument…
Nobody is saying move to Lousy-ana. Move closer where it is reasonable driving distance. You’re talking out of your ass if you haven’t been down here and you wanna denigrate a whole group of people by calling them inbreeds. We are taking about door to door travel and I stand by my earlier comments. If its that big of a deal don’t take the job. International operations are obviously a whole different animal. It is standard for a company to handle your travel foreign. If they expected me to pay for a flight to Africa I would look for another job.
There aren’t that many Holy Grail drilling DPO/mate jobs out there. If there was then we wouldn’t have to bump the “READ THIS FIRST” post so often. You would get your license ,diploma and plane tickets to Transocean on graduation day.
Again, the broken records keeps repeating…
Yeah adult ADHD and no short term memory keeps it interesting! BLIBBIDY BLABB BLIBBIDY BLABB!!!
I have been flown on the companies dime for interviews, but those cases were when the company was recruiting me.
Awww somebody want his ass kissed because he thinks he’s just the best around and that any company would be lucky to have him.
Why should you be special and flown in for an interview when several guys with more experience in the industry then you walk in every day?
The oil bidness is a different beast then anything else out there. What most of you guys trying to break in with your big licenses fail to realize is that along with DP and boat handling skills one needs to know how to talk to the client. I spend a large part of my watch just coordinating with docks, crane operators, and the company man. One has to learn not just when to say no, but how to say it. Seen a lot of new guys come out here and blow a sweet job because they pissed off somebody in how they talked to them. Now the boat is running 24/7, every one is worn out and moral is out the window. Now that the boat is in the dog house when a problem crops up and the boat needs some dock time for some repairs, what would be no big deal can turn into a huge mess as the oil company now wants to put the boat on down time, or just lay the boat off all together. That’s really what the boat companies are looking for, a guy who can keep a boat on a job when all hell is breaking loose in the engine room. This is a learned skill and one only gains it through experience.
