Oil Well Drillers
By: Max Strehlow
About the job
- You will sometimes have to work long hard hours
- You have to fix the rigs if they malfunction
- You have to monitor the rigs
- You find oil pockets to drill
- You inspect the rigs to make sure they are working right
- All you need is a high school dagree
- A collage degree in machine technology is recommended.
- The major assosiation is the IADC
- The demand for this job has not been this high since be fore the Great Depression
- And there will always be demand for this job
- If the keystone pipeline get built the will need thousands of workers and will pay top Dallas if you have experience
Pros-–--------------------------------------------------cons
Good pay
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Long hours
Not a desk job so you stay fit
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Inconsistent hours
Can get paid a lot of money a week
------------------------------------------------------------------Not the same amount of money per week
IADC (international association of drilling contractors)
Education- all you NEED is a high school degree BUT a collage dagree in mechanical engineering is recommended
Southwest Wisconsin technical collage
Pros-
Cost
Good outdoor activities.
Cons-
Not close to big city
Not a lot to do on campus
Michel technical institute
Pros-
Cost
Lost of outdoor activities
Cons-
Not much to do outside of campus
Far away
North central collage
Pros-
Cost
Some out door activities
Cons-
Not much to do outside of campus .
Not a lot of people get admitted.
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