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Originally Posted by jdm4x43732
Starting pay is low but only work 6 months out of the year. Free food for 6 months out of the year, only drive to work 1 or 2 trips a month if you get a set schedule not 24 hr call. Figure food and gas cost if you have to commute every day. I doubt if I worked at a plant or a refinery I'd get as much couch time as I do now 
I probably have more time to spend with my kids being gone 6 months a year than if I were home every night. To each his own but I wouldn't change it for the world. The kids love it when I miss Christmas, they get to celebrate it twice, when I'm home and Santa passes again on Christmas eve. You'd think Santa would wisen up and knock it all out in one night. |
I guess there are pros and cons each way. I'm not an operator, but I do work shift work, so I only work six months out of the year also, unless I work overtime. I wouldn't have minded going offshore as much before I had a kid, but now I wouldn't do it unless I had to.