Offshore Roustabout Jobs

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Roustabout Jobs:

Although not included in the list of the best jobs on the planet, but despite their physical nature taking a job as a roustabout at an oil rig is no less than taking up a challenge, which requires much more of YOU. The oil rig companies truly want their employees to enjoy everything to the fullest when they are not working on the rig and thus even go out of the way to proffer them an enjoyable experience by making them stay and relax at 5 star accommodations and give them everything to enjoy the time away from the rig profoundly and greatly.

Among an array of job opportunities available at an oil rig you can choose the one as per your interest, you have options like working as a driller, shaker hand, assistant driller, motorman, roustabout, roughneck and so on. Entailing a 14/21 day rotation working style, it means that a person will work for 2 weeks and will have an off of 3 weeks, the cycle usually goes on the same way every time.

Working as a roustabout, offshore away from the mainland is living a lifestyle, getting approximately 3/5 of the year as holiday, you get opportunities to travel to countries like Nigeria, US, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Mexico, Kuwait, Venezuela, China, Canada, Russia and also the UK. A job, which although not touted to be a great one but still needs you to have the guts to accept it, for working as a roustabout is simply living a lifestyle. When working totally away from everything and while on holidays totally enjoying each and everything; if you really think you have it in you, choose for one, for working as a roustabout is like taking a challenge life is throwing at you.

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Offshore roustabout jobs are hard, dirty, physical jobs. Let’s get that out of the way before go any further. If you want a job like this, you need to be prepared to get tired and dirty, to bust your ass for your paycheck. This is not a job for people who like to sit around on their butts all day.

But like many jobs that still require you to work hard and heavy, there are a lot of benefits to the work. For one thing, you can expect to make thirty to forty grand for about six months worth of work. While you’re on the rig, your room and board are going to be paid for, and the oil company will pay to fly you to and from the rig.

Roughneck – The next step

The actual benefits, as in the insurance and other perks variety, are pretty sweet, too. Generally, you’re going to be looking at full medical, dental and vision, with some nice retirement options thrown in there as well. Plus, since you’re only working part of the year, you’ve got plenty of time to enjoy yourself before retirement. You could call it retirement in installments.

The roustabout is generally the low man on the oil rig totem pole. You start as unskilled large, and as a result you end up doing a lot of different things. This includes, but is no means limited to, putting together pipe, moving equipment, moving pipes, cleaning the deck, scraping off rust, and painting.

Or, basically, the dirty work. Your job as a roustabout is to make it so the more senior members, the actual crew, can do their jobs. Whatever needs done that they don’t have time to is what you can expect to do. There is always, always something that needs done on an oil rig, so don’t expect to have much time available to slack off. Read the rest of this entry »