How do you get into work where you do week on week off,month on month of or even longer doing repair work in remote locations?
The only things I can think of is stuff like oil rigs or cargo ships, I am curious if there is lesser known stuff out there and how to work towards getting a job like that if you don't know a guy.
I work production but I am also the fixer for whenever a machine goes down, no air-conditioning, working with 350+ degree plastics in a respirator all day so I can cope with conditions most people whine about, so if I could leverage tolerance to make a lot more money, I'd like to.
I wouldn't care not being at home, so if they have to fly guys in someplace remote, that also works for me. I am near Canada, is that a thing, hiring US workers to work remote mining areas on machines in Canada or Africa or is that just a meme I got from watching AVE like 7 years ago?/Don't want to do welding full time, so no pipeline stuff for me.
How is it working on oil rigs if you just want to clock up some money on your late 20's?
I've read that if you don't mind working for months at a time up in oil land/Canada then getting a CDL and hauling for an Environmental company is where its at. With the politics the way they are, its only going to be a growing field for the years to come
would also like to know, not really in trades at all though, no skills, certs, not even driving licence
>How do you get into work where you do week on week off,month on month of or even longer doing repair work in remote locations?
Become a lineman. The guys who work on the nig transmission towers out in the middle of nowhere.
Railroad work. Repair/maintain equipment along the routes. They're always hiring.
Fishing boats - factory boats are always hiring crews.
You have some specific, autistic requirements, but if you'll back off the time restrictions, there's tons of work that goes out into the remote areas - a lot of communications requires service and mainenance on cell towers and anntenae/dish arrays. And servicing wind farms. You could get into work crews maintaining/building interstates. Fed and Local government is always hiring for maintenance crews.
>Railroad
I'm a trainman not MOW, but I'm pretty sure they work them as much as they work us. It's good money but you don't get much time off, definitely not a week on week off sort of thing.
Its not literally those time periods, just get paid a lot to be some place no one wants to be and have a lot of time off after that.
you have to be worth it to be sent across the world to do labor. why would they hire you when they can get the locals to do it for a half pound of bushmeat per week?
I work at a factory equipment supplier/machine building company. Our site installation teams work about 40-50% abroad: mechanics, electricians and plc/robot guys. Projects are 2 to 12 weeks but you go home every 2-4 weeks depending on distance.
You could look into it, like companies that make baggers, conveyors, hoppers, strappers, wrappers, bakery lines etc. There’s usually a shortage because most people don’t want to travel that much after 40. Pay is good, every hour abroad was paid around 60-80% more than when at home when I still traveled
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Forgot to add this. Even tho factories are a lot more fun than marine/trains/petrol (imo), don’t imagine to see beautiful places. There’s a fun place every now and then but most industrial production is done on sites in eg shit parts of Eastern Europe, Mexico, Guatemala, Johannesburg and outskirts of US cities where you can’t go out for lunch because the client doesn’t want you to get robbed on their watch. But maybe it’s better in Canada and/or in agricultural
But industrial installation works you either do for the money or to be away from whatever troubles you have at home
I know someone who does 14 on 14 off, he does wildfire firefighting work... Kind of kek.
He just drives a truck to resupply the actual firefighters, makes good money
fridgie and my main customer base are grocery stores. not usa so no clue if it works the same there?
we got a deal with 3 large chains here, basicly everything they do is based on nation wide deals. if a store in hillbillyville gets rebuildt they send the same guys as if it where in the mall in the capitol. no point in training a new crew for every project when you can just send the experienced ones and get it done faster.
this goes for carpenters, flooring, electricans, plumbers, the guys building the store layout, hvac, fridgies, data/it and everyone required to build a store.
15-20h drive to job site, stay there for 3 weeks doing 12-14h a day and return home with 8-10k € after tax in your pocket.
I work for a company that specializes in industrial maintenance and repair, specifically on boiler units at papermills.
Most people start out as a firewatch. This is usually the lowest paid job with the least responsibility. You sit there for 12 hours a day with a fire extinguisher and make sure a welder doesn't catch himself on fire, or something similar. My company typically pays these guys $14/hr and $60/per diem but I've seen other companies that pay up to $20/hr $200/per diem.
The next step would be helper, which does all the shitty work but gets paid slightly more.
Once you prove you can read a tape measure and use an angle grinder without fricking anything up, you get upgraded to boilermaker/boiler mechanic. These guys typically make around $2500-$3500 per week working 7 days 12 hour shifts.
If you started out as a helper right now and aren't a complete frickup, you could probably be top paid boilermaker by the end of the year.
NOTE:
This job option is hazardous to your health. You will be exposed to industrial grade toxins and carcinogens such as sulfuric acid, turpentine, black liquor, etc. This is the unspoken reason of why the pay is what it is.
Many of your coworkers will be felons and drug addicts.
Use caution.
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