Texas oil companies

Here's the drill rig that came in the other day all set up. The big boy rig is expected in another week or two. That rig will be set up a few miles away after the tundra freezes over and it will have a rig camp so nobody here will have to deal with those animals.

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djroxalot said:
I can't wait to fucking retire.
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I was going to retire three years ago but the owner said just tell me what it will take for you to stay. He took my offer. The last three years I have been working one day a week or so and paying taxes on six figures.

Right now I have more than enough and my willingness to put up with shit has become very low. About to turn every day into a Saturday.
 
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RTR...USN (ret) said:
This country doesn’t run without blue collar workers. College isn’t everything, and frankly in the last 20 years a degree doesn’t mean shit compared to a skilled craftsman. For example I know a woman who went to welding school under an apprenticeship. She learned her craft extremely well, and continuously upgraded her certifications. She worked in the maintenance shop for a Fortune 500 company who paid her a great wage, and paid for her extra certifications She is verified in exotic metals including hastelloy, inconnel , titanium etc. 4 years ago she quit to work as an independent owner/contractor. All she had was her truck, equipment, and small barn for a shop. Last week she paid for a 10,000 square foot shop. She has zero student loans and is making a small fortune working for herself.
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Got a good friend who worked his azz off driving full and part time until he became an train engineer. He still worked part time driving his truck. His goal was to retire at 62 and do a season of ice road trucking.

Unfortunately, he suffers from a rare disease that left him almost totally blind. He has a seven-figure retirement, a lake house and a farm but cannot drive. Fortunately, he has a long-term friend who was married to one of his buds who died, and she has become his driver, lake house tenant, and cook. Works well for both.

The disease struck him on a train run. He says once he shut the engine down, he took a good long look at the dashboard because he knew he would never see one again. He was steam certified and ferried steam engines from Chattanooga to B'ham and other places.

He is a walking encyclopedia of civil war info having been a reenactor. He another retired friend and I take day trips around the state. Alabama has many good places to visit.

One is the Jessee Owens Museum. There are also Indian mounds next to it with a museum on the grounds. Found out the bucknuts like to claim him but they did not do crap for him. He had to work to support himself and pay his tuition.
 
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