Need help from you offshore guys

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Originally Posted by BossHog

I know a lot of you on here work offshore and I need some advice. Im thinking hard about trying to get a job offshore since its almost imposible to get hired by any plant without experince right now. I have a degree in process technology and a coastguard captains license but no experince in the oilfield. So how would I go about looking for a job and what would someone start out as out there with no experince but a degree?

with a degree in process technology, why not try to get a job as production operator . The degree helps out alot in that field because many of the operators out there learned from OTJ. Every company hiring operators minimally require at least.....1---5 years exp and / 2 2 year degree. Of course you will need to go through training and such, but that's any company. Big companies like SHELL AND CHEVRON ....the degree will only get you in the door. From then on, they send you to their special in house- schooling ...in your case, production operator....i have a few friends that work offshore and make cake as operators....other friends that have their degree liek u, but work in plants....make decent...i believe they start at 25+and easily get into 30+/hr

if offshore life aint for you...and for many it isnt'...give plant life a try. 40-50 hr weeks on rotation. and some plants pay overtime after 8 hrs. 4-10/hr days a week aint' bad at all...

but offshore has its perks also...