That must be a drilling rig he’s on. They use mud to lubricate the bit.
He’s on a good number there.
B1GGK . Me thinks he very underpaid, should be nearer probably 80 k and paid when he return UK
Before the banking crash being a chauffeur for a city bank paid very well basic was between 18-25k plus double time after 8 hours the best bit was the tips between 2-5k per month cash in hand and all for keeping yourears and eyes shut - as they say discretion assured 
suppose it depends whom u chaffeur for and what they up to 
but apart from that i know the rock and roll / concert industry and the film industry are well paid but long hours hanging around doing notthing def only for single guy / girl
Work on a rig
Bodyguard somewhere dangerous
Join the Army
don’t drive a truck if you want to earn £££
hgvhgv:
Heya people I am young free single and morgage free! I wana save up a decent ammount of money over the next couple of years and wana know where the moneys at! I have heard event work is good away for 3/4 months at a time for a few grand a month, can anything top this? Whats the best paying job the more experinced of our members have had when they were worry free and why did you enjoy it? Thanks!
I worked on events and promotional work back in the UK before comming here. Greatest job in the world, 6 or more months a year, great fun and loads of money if you join the right company … but building the trailers etc is damm hard work at each location. I loved every second of the job but it cost me a wife. … (on saying that the leg over at shows was good )
My brother has what I would say is the best job I know of working on the offshore wind turbines, ok he has spent a couple of grand on courses such as working in confined spaces, first aid, helicopter evacuation, deep sea diver, and some of them have to be renewed every few years, but when you look at the overall cost to get a class 1 licence from scratch compared to the money he earns it was well worth it, he also has his PSV and LGV 1 licence too. He wasn’t the brightest spark at school and left with no proper qualifications went into the army at 16 and left there with the knowledge of how to shoot someone and jump out of a plane with a rucksack on his back.
He now earns £20 per hour, gauranteed 12 hours per day ( 4 hours of that can be sailing out to the platform and back ) , 7 days a week,3 weeks on 1 week off and is home every night on the present job they are doing. If the weather is too bad to sail out to the platforms, as long as he has turned up at the dock he still gets paid a full shift. Ive known him only actually work 2 days in a week but because the weather was to bad to sail the other 5 days he still got full pay for the week. He was the one my parents thought wouldnt make anything of himself in life and I was the one they thought would go the furthest how wrong they were
gasman:
B1GGK . Me thinks he very underpaid, should be nearer probably 80 k and paid when he return UK
He’s never said what he earns, just made a judgement from the lifestyle he leads.
Here ! … head for heights ?
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Pat Hasler:
Here ! … head for heights ?
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That had my stomach doing somersaults
Yep ! I actually got sick watching that. The bit where he just hooks on to a step and leans back for a rest is mind blowing.
Lowly train driver here. 35 hour week (sign on to sign off) - 4 day week so 12 days off in a 4 week period and 32 days annual leave entitlement inclusive of bank holidays. Overtime always available. Currently getting 25% extra over the Olympic period. Well worth going for.
K5Project:
Work on a rig
Bodyguard somewhere dangerous
Join the Army
don’t drive a truck if you want to earn £££
i joined the Army, left after 12 years to Bodyguard somewhere dangerous for people that work for the oil industry and on the rigs!! (still doin it now)
Good money but not what it used to be, only 4 figures a month compared to 5 figures a few years ago.
You could get a job re-dressing strippers at a club … 5 quid an hour (if you can’t afford to pay them the 5 quid then try offering 4.50)
Driveroneuk:
hgvhgv:
Thank you very much! I certianally couldnt cope with an oil rig!I was involved with the offshore oil industry when I first left school. (shore based). Wish to hell I’d gotten on the rigs. Its a fantastic life style for a young free single guy. Don’t know what on/off shifts they do now (3 on, 3 off?) but back then it was 2 weeks on 2 off. (I used to draw up the crew change lists). So that’s 2 weeks of having no expenses at all & giving your liver a break. Many guys don’t have a house. They just go to Thailand when off with loadsa dosh to throw about.
I remember crane driver was well paid & not exactly hard work. Chef is a nice clean job but hard hot work. Roustabout damned hard work & dirty on a drilling rig. Drillers are on top dollar. Be a commercial diver for a few years & retire made at 35.I guess the work will not generally be as hard/dirty on a production platform as a drilling rig.
Once you get into this game, you have the option to work anywhere in the world.
I spent 14 years working in the oil patch. Thus why I say driving a HGV to me is classed as recreational early retirement.
I started offshore as a Roustabout for “Rowan Drilling” in 1989. Got promoted to “Roughneck” after about 8 months. worked for Transocean for a few years, went from roughneck to Derrickman, then to assistant Driller. When the rig went stacked, as per company policy everyone that got kept on as skeleton crew went down a pay scale, so ended up back as derrickman.
Then took a job as Derrickman with Atwood Oceanics out in Nigeria. that was a nice number to an extent, was earning £45k a year for six months work in 1996. But the country was horrific, and after the native booners threw a paddy and took the rig crews hostage, that was enough for me.
I got out of the drilling game for a little while whilst working for Marinoaks International. they where derrick builders/ steel erectors. Like every good number, it comes to an end. An American rival brought the company out and closed the UK bases.
So back to the drillers with Ensco as Roughneck.
I had some other little short term numbers in the oil patch.
The whole Oil field number is a cracking job. I loved it. Money was second to none. I was earning £650 a week take home in 1989. As a 19 year old, I loved life.
The oil companies treat you like royalty, if you got put up in a Holiday in, then you worked for a crap company and you where slumming it.
Roughnecking, making a single connection using a Kelly drive system and a spinning chain.
youtube.com/watch?v=aqLALzUft8Y
tripping pipe back in the hole.
youtube.com/watch?v=xGN0hMhPJ7w
Working the monkey board as a derrickman, 83ft above the ground.
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This is a good one, bear in mind it looks slow, but you have a 25 tonne block on freefall, you have to pull that pipe clear before the block hits it.
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Take note of the full brimmed McDonalds mining hard hats. I’ve not yet seen another in the UK, my one is always on the dashboard in front of my steering wheel. I can always afford to buy a fellow member a coffee or a beer if your in the same location folks.
That climber is a nutter! I bet you an make some serous cash from oil rigs but being stuck in the middle of the ocean for me would ■■■■!
Bumping this as I just got my c+e and its almost christmas! Any good $$$ to be had ober the festive period?
Pat Hasler:
Here ! … head for heights ?
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[zb] me sideways. I have no shame in admitting that my balls aren’t big enough for that. “Free climbing” the last 60ft? [zb] that! Those guys must have balls the size of melons. Water melons.
Van driving as you not tacho but still not that good money
Become a CEO
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