budsmoker87
New Member
First of all, if your gonna say something insulting or troll this thread, don't bother reading or replying
so at 5:30 this morning when i got off the rig, the 4-5 hours of intense heart burn surfaced and i pulled over twice to puke my guts out. This has happened every day of work. I drove 1/3 the way back to camp (a half hour) and pulled over feeling too dizzy to drive. Started shaking uncontrollably...thought about quitting but set my alarm and slept in my car for 4 hours, then drove to the rig tonight. I told the tool pusher (whose been in the field for 20 years, lost a finger and has macular degeneration...so he's going blind) that I can't handle the chemical exposure. He shook my hand and said no problem you gave it a try. I gave it 4 tries, with 4 diff companies...yet I'm still feeling like I failed
this sucks and idk what my next steps are yet, but I WILL figure it out because all I have is my car and i need to survive. Those 3 days on the rig gave me prob a little over $1,200...and that goes quickly, but I'll pick up day-jobs in the meantime till I figure things out. I'm just upset because I can handle the physical labor of the rig, which is NOT easy...lifting/moving 80 100-lb bags off 2 pallets, running up/down the rig floor 3-stories high all day sometimes carrying 40 lb buckets or tools, lifting 300-lb slips all day, swinging 500-lb tongs or spinners, etc. but I cannot handle the chemical exposure...that invert (drilling fluid) is some nasty shit. All the guys on the rig will show you purplish-black spots on their skin that look like warts.
I'm gonna look into being a firefighter i think. My true love is botany, I love creating things...but idk if that's a job that pays the bills (legally anyway...i'm trying to roll legit unless I do a personal medical-licensed grow sometime in the future) or just a hobby...
I'll put the pieces together soon enough and make a move
so at 5:30 this morning when i got off the rig, the 4-5 hours of intense heart burn surfaced and i pulled over twice to puke my guts out. This has happened every day of work. I drove 1/3 the way back to camp (a half hour) and pulled over feeling too dizzy to drive. Started shaking uncontrollably...thought about quitting but set my alarm and slept in my car for 4 hours, then drove to the rig tonight. I told the tool pusher (whose been in the field for 20 years, lost a finger and has macular degeneration...so he's going blind) that I can't handle the chemical exposure. He shook my hand and said no problem you gave it a try. I gave it 4 tries, with 4 diff companies...yet I'm still feeling like I failed
this sucks and idk what my next steps are yet, but I WILL figure it out because all I have is my car and i need to survive. Those 3 days on the rig gave me prob a little over $1,200...and that goes quickly, but I'll pick up day-jobs in the meantime till I figure things out. I'm just upset because I can handle the physical labor of the rig, which is NOT easy...lifting/moving 80 100-lb bags off 2 pallets, running up/down the rig floor 3-stories high all day sometimes carrying 40 lb buckets or tools, lifting 300-lb slips all day, swinging 500-lb tongs or spinners, etc. but I cannot handle the chemical exposure...that invert (drilling fluid) is some nasty shit. All the guys on the rig will show you purplish-black spots on their skin that look like warts.
I'm gonna look into being a firefighter i think. My true love is botany, I love creating things...but idk if that's a job that pays the bills (legally anyway...i'm trying to roll legit unless I do a personal medical-licensed grow sometime in the future) or just a hobby...
I'll put the pieces together soon enough and make a move