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Yeah, I have on some of the larger rigs. I work on all sort of rigs, big and small (workover, prod., etc) and i've gone all sort of depths and hung off various weights off of slips. The most weight I've personally hung off is 800,000 lbs. I generally average 90,000-200,000 lbs. You gotta have a powerful motor to pull up those weights! I've seen them break down too and drop casing! The "driller" and the "motorman" I work with (whomever it is on location) runs the rig as far as pulling up or down the casing (running the motor), company policy doesn't allow me to do it. He runs it, We make sure the weight gauge is where I need it to be, then I set my slips. I basically do the dirty work, no where near as bad as a "roughneck" though.

The division I work for doesn't deal with the diesal motors, but we have another division that does.

As for the bigger diesal motors like pictured....I see those on the H&P, Cactus, and the Goober rigs. The bigger rigs are generally the H&Ps, there the safest out there too (they really practice safety which I really like)...
 


Well, being a college student, I don't really have a cool job. I work at Autozone here by campus. It's no career, but I have definitely learned a lot working there.
 
i use to work for armstrong world industries as their flooring logistics analyst until they filed chapter 11 and laid off alot of workers. then i worked a bit at bae systems that is a 3rd party contractor for the us military rebuilding and reman. specific artillary vehicles such as the bradleys and AAVs. i left there since i didnt get along with my superior. now im an accounts revenue/data processor/analyst for a local construction company.
 
I work for a large printing solutions company where I'm a roll tender on a printing press... what that means is Ihang big rolls of paper on a machine that prints books. Definetly not glamorous or exciting. About the most exciting thing was last summer we printed the last harry potter book... exciting I know!
 


Me, well remember pogs? Yeah I invented those. :th_laugh-lol2:

I actually work at the hq of a nationwide dredging company. I help keep track of our blueprints for our fleet of ships by scanning them, entering them into our computer system, etc etc. I am also a full time college student.
 
Me, well I'm a cop :th_embarassed: Have been for going on 4years and love every minute of it. So... if your rolling through TN it's safe to say grand prixs are safe :th_winking:
 
i do home repairs/remodeling and also HVAC, i work on both side of the company the pay isn't to bad but since work is slow for the company right now i don't have very much money to play with, plus with having to driver 40miles to work the gas prices are killing me. But my really goal is wanting to get into computer programming....so i may just become a waiter again( because you make great tips) until i finish my schooling
 
Admittedly, I did not go and read all 17 pages.....

I'm an IT Manager at a very large Government Contractor working at a very large Government Space Organization.
 


I start my new job Monday the 17th! I will be a Fraud Analyst for one of the largest banks in the US. I make sure you are you. If you are not you, I get you in jail.
 
For the last 5 months I have worked as a service dispatcher for a copier company in Manassas, Va. But in exactly 1 week from today, I will be leaving that job and on 4/14 I will be working for a heating and airconditioning company in the service dept.

At my previous job for a pavement marking & signage company I did project invoicing. But the owner pissed me off and I walked out after being there for over 2 1/2 years.
 
I do NDT inspections on oilrigs, cargo ships, dive support vessels for the oil and gas industry
What i do is welding inspection anywhere there has been a repair or some new welds laid down in and around the rig (magnetic particle inspection)
I also do Ultrasonic Thickness measurement and determine how much the steel has corroded, so i spend alot of my time in Pre-Load tanks, Ballast tanks, Fuel Tanks. If any body is from the oil industry and knows about tanks, then u know what im talking about. Im on call 24/7, but at least i get to travel the world even though i have to work. bout to head out on a 30 day trip from Trinidad to Africa to Australia where we will be on an oil rig loaded up on a heavy lift barge taking it to australia. at least the scenery changes. but the commute to work is always out of state 9 out of 10 times
 
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Electronic Warfare technician currently on the B-52H.

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If it keeps the B-52 from getting shot down, I fix it. Jamming systems, deception systems, passive radar warning systems, chaff, flare, you name it.
 
I am a full time freshman at the University of Sioux Falls. I am undecided right now but I may major in business and marketing. I would like to own or run a business some day. Besides school I am wrestling for USF and when I get time I work in the warehouse of a large, local appliances, electronics and furniture store. I have been there for 2 years, my mom has worked there for 20 and my sister has worked there for 6. My moms uncle started with a store in a small town in the south central part of SD and now there are around 20 stores in 4 states. I unbox appliances, load/unload trucks and get product for people when they purchase something.
 
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