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You could come to the oilfield and make around 14 an hour. But you get all the over time you want. I know young guys making 80 grand pretty easily.Most pump operators only work hard for 2 hours a day then they watch movies all day long in the truck or the bigger pumps.
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Worked in oil field supply, it was decent money until I was laid off.
Then I worked retail for a little over a year until they wouldn't let me work over 15 hours a week and all the new guys started off higher in pay than I was making, so I quit.
I recently got a job 2 months ago as a Lab Tech for a lab that runs liquid, sulphur, and gas samples for the oil field. I like the job. It's low on stress, but I'd really like to put my education to use. I could go back to college and finish my degree in science and have the potential to make better a better salary doing what I do now, but those I work with that have done that are working over 12hr day 7 days a week and hardly have time off.
I tried out for this fire department last July, and they recently contacted me due to an opening in their department.