a few buddies of mine are working with suncore right now

If i wasnt focused on school and getting an actual "good" job i'd probably be up there grinding out days to save up a downpayment for a place, the 2 guys i know who went up have been up for a couple months now and their effort/work ethic is pretty much half of my own so im sure i wouldnt have a problem

The thing with the rig/alberta work is you make so much money because you are working so many hours, it's not like you are making $60/hour, you make $20-25 an hour but you work an insane amount of hours and most of those long hours, your not getting overtime

Also, take into consideration if your working 2 on 1 off like my buddies do, sure you might clear 3k for those 2 weeks, but in reality thats 3k for 3 weeks because your not making any money on the week off

3-4K a month can be made locally by skilled trades, and i was basically making that when i was working in construction before school, and that was being home by 4 everyday and weekends off

if your stuck in a warehouse working for 10 bucks and hour, heres your out. Thanks for the link OP, I'll check that out

Don't forget about the whores!

Fuck the mosquitos, black flies will fuck you up.

Your take home would be at least $3k. Hell even at $17 hour your take home is around $3k for 2 weeks. That means in 3 months you work 4 "cycles". $12k TAKE HOME for 3 months is really good and like I said that is at $17 hr.
One thing is dont let a company do salary. You want all your hours to count.
I'll be starting at $28 hr. Once I get some experience I'll try to get on some bigger machines and make more money.

so you work 3 weeks at a time. whats the schedule like?
3 weeks working, followed by how much time off? 1-2 weeks?

It is not for everyone. We work long hours everyday for 14-21days in a row. If you are whining about the winter in Vancouver then you are not cut out for this line of work.

1week off

I personally cant speak for the drilling rigs, but I know in my field of boilermaker/pipefitter work in the Northern Alberta Oil & Gas/Power plants, 6 grand a month clear is considered just about the lowest paying job youll land as a Journeyman.

Thats a typical new construction job working 14&7 with limited time and a half at roughly $40ish an hour.

Thats why the rigs are realistically only good to make a quick buck and get the fuck outta dodge IMHO. One of my long time best buddies worked for precision drilling for 2 years before coming to this conclusion.

At least if youve got a trade, you can always carry it back into whatever city you choose to reside in once youve had enough.

Quoted because it's worth repeating. I've bolded what I think is pretty important to keep in mind.

I've spent enough time in FSJ and Grande Prairie to see the fruits of all that hard work, but I've also seen plenty of overreaching - lots of 20 year old kids driving $70k duallie pickups. You can definitely make shitloads of money, but one should be smart about it. Have some fun with it, but be honest with yourself - it's probably not the sort of work you will want to be doing into even your late 20s. It's very hard on the body.

QFT, lol im imagining the "typical" revscener going up there and being handed a shovel.:inout:

Also dont forget you have to be white.

IIRC the pipe fitters and other trades from alberta get priority over someone from another province.
How do RV's work in -40 weather? Went to Calgary and the amount of rv's in everyones driveway blew me away.

well, its not cold there in the summer. I assume they live in their houses in the winter and use the RV's for summer activites

For anyone looking, here's a couple of sites that have quite a few positions posted. Canadian and international.

If you guys know of any other sites with postings, please share.

www.infooil.com
www.infomine.com
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Im in Grande Prairie right now, getting my electricians ticket with commercial work. I live in a company paid appartment (rent, cable, internet and phone paid, 2 bedroom for me and my gf only), I get paid $35 an hour plus 10% vacation pay, plus $4 an hour living allowance (tax free). Work is 50 hours a week plus more if I wanna work weekends. You dont need to be working oilfield to be making good money, but its much easier to find oilfield work that pays great compared to work in the city.

hook a brother up!

Dude, seriously?

No, there is no mandated priority structure for hiring Albertans. Though most companies do try and maintain that a set percentage of people hired are status card carrying first nations people.

There can be some priority structure depending on the site and kind of work. A lot of companies in Fort Mac will take priority to someone having an address (somewhere to live) in the town over someone who needs to stay in camp. Also if its Union, the Union will hire area first, province second, country third, then internation (if its an international Union). And like Jason said, Native status is like a holy grail instant job getter out here due to quota's that need to be filled. Sorry Teg, No Flames fans allowed. :P jk. Were full crew but if something opens and your serious, I'll send you a msg.

hahaha, flames fans would be welcome there hehehe

sounds good!

No just kidding, but if your not white be prepared for one fuck of alot of heckling.

so I'll give a little update. been in a town called Hardisty for 15 days now working on a project. It's a lot of physical work but I'm not gonna complain for the amount I'm getting paid. We worked 46 hours all at time and a half this weekend. Got another 9 days to go before I head back to Calgary for 4 days. Then I'm back here for another 24.
We work between 10 and 12 hours a day. First 8 is regular pay and then the rest is time and a half. After 40 hours everything is time and a half.
This job is not a camp job. We get an extra 130 a day tax free for living expenses. I have a room in a basement that I'm paying 500 a month for so I'm banking a lot of money just from that.

I am gonna say you better have some balls if you are gonna do this. It's hard work. You will get yelled at. People will poke fun at you. You will be away from your friends for a while. But. You will make a lot of money. As an example. One guy I work with is a second year pipefitter. Last year he took home 140,000. Another guy is a journeyman carpenter. He is taking home 4000 a week. Site supervisors make around 1200 a day.

Also for the guy asking about the rock truck. look into getting into other machines too. we have a rock truck on our site.

That at the Enbridge Tank farms? My company has done a few buildings there (Electrical). Yah, good money to be made there. Finally got my Journeymans ticket and Red Seal, so super stoked knowing I dont have to live in Alberta the rest of my life. hahahaha but for now while the money is too good to pass up, I'll just keep banking it.