| Offshore jobs: Do you really want an offshore oil rig | | | | working with hydrocarbons which are in themselves |
| job. Offshore drilling jobs can pay good money as do | | | | dangerous. Of course you might not work on a drilling |
| offshore marine jobs and offshore crane operator | | | | rig, maybe a production vessel which is purely |
| jobs. | | | | processing oil and gas which means your surrounded |
| However, they do mean a lot of bleary eyed mornings, | | | | by pipework varying lots of oil and gas. |
| checking in at the heliport at silly O'clock. Lots of | | | | I'm not trying to put people off but just inform them to |
| travelling hanging around airports, two to four week | | | | what its like and that there is an alternative, if you |
| trips stuck on oil rig out in the middle of nowhere. The | | | | totally new to working offshore your going to have to |
| same old boring routine day in day out trip after trip! | | | | invest a few thousand at least to get offshore which i |
| Does this sound like something you would like to do, or | | | | will go into on my next article. |
| maybe you still do and would rather work onshore but | | | | What if you could make the same money offshore or |
| are bound by the golden handcuffs, accustomed to | | | | even more without ever having to go offshore again, |
| the money and time off. | | | | and have even more free time? No more helicopter |
| Another thing worth mentioning about the offshore | | | | flights, no more 12 hour plus shifts. I've worked offshore |
| lifestyle is that you are working in a potentially very | | | | for nearly 10 years and would recommend that if you |
| hazardous place, particularly work around the drill floor | | | | are tired of working on oil rigs or are considering it as a |
| on drilling vessels with tensioned wires everywhere | | | | career. |
| and the risk of drop potentials. On top of that your | | | | |