Yes.
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I have yet to see one coloured person at my camp.

Hes actually right. I worked for a communication company and they only hired only white people. They tried a few Pakistani workers but they found they were very stubborn and were very hard to teach anything, not to mention they treated the women staff very poorly.

Im not saying they are all like this!! Maybe we had a bad batch, but since then I know they only hire whites.

This whole industry is racist. These guys are all small town uneducated farmers.

I really can't be myself around here. Make pussy jokes and be nice then people will love you.
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Get into hunting, toys, and say you are from a small town.

And to answer subordinates question my company will hire anyone. Because the pay is shit!

I was making 250 a day +40 sub and I was billing out the consultant 45 grand for 21 days of work. Congrats, you traded in your social life to be with dudes for 30+ days straight.


I know a wirelining company that needs workers and will pay for a class 3 up here in fsj.
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To put into perspective I was on the field after my 2nd day on the job. Guys who have been with the company for 6 months haven't been on the field yet.

There is a fit for this industry.i

Even non-white people?

I have my class 1, what experience do you need for wirelining? Whats the shifts, do they pay for travel? Camp? Etc? Wage?

Keith Biggins
Not fort mac but similar lifestyle. My buddy's doing a one year stint on a rig and doing an extensive photography mission to show the life up north. The rig life. Great pictures in my opinion. I lived in grande prairie for 10 years, my mom still lives out there. Always consider going back. I worked for a summer working construction and it really dawned on me that I shouldn't be wasting my youth doing this type of crap just for the money. I wouldn't be able to last another winter up there. It's so boring and unlivable. I'll take the rain over -40 any day. If you wanna do the fort mac/oilrig life I highly recommend you make it short term, and have a good reason for doing it. Get your money, pay off your debts then get the hell outta there! Unless alberta life is your thing, but I have yet to meet a vancouverite who strives to be an albertan. Besides the money, the desirability is low. And if money is all you want in life then give your head a shake. More to life then working 12 hours a day 6 days a week to buy a fancy ass house or a new tv.

Just my two cents. I'll probably be back there next summer though. Pay off debt and live on ei for the winter and travel. I have a job lined up with a potential free class 3 license involved.

Probably 300 a day and camp yeah.

There are about 40 rigs in fsj area alone. Even more past fort nelson.
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Also I'm heading home today. Company found out I was looking for new jobs to see what was out there. Was gonna wait till it was confirmed with the hr of precision before I head home. So I hope to god she calls me tomorrow. Woke up to a panic attack today. Granted for what I was getting paid I can do construction OE something in calgary.
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Damn, that's not good. Hope the trip up there was overall positive ($-wise)

What company?

I'll call the dude tomorrow and find out more info. There is also a well testing job oi know of too.
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Good to be home.

I hope I hope precision calls me tomorrow. PLEASE GOD PLEASE.

Some people thought my job was sweet. You really don't do anything all day for 12 hours but you get paid 225 a day. It just wasn't worth it. Seriously you will die of boredom. Even if I did tether my phone to my laptop and played Dota all day I'd get fucking fat and ugly fast.

Yeah its tough when you have to keep yourself occupied for that long. You can only hit F5 on the new posts page here for so long. 225 a day for that is god awful too.

I've been following this thread for a while now and its been super helpful. As some of you may know (Meowjin) I'm taking Forestry Operations at UBC, currently in my 3rd year. I know theres a lot of rigging jobs up there but are there opportunities for summer student positions in my field? Currently in Co-op as well but having a hard time finding a job that I can just grind at and make connections.

Cheers

they wont hire asians.

seriously.

This industry is racist.

Only the oil companies will hire minorities because there is alot of scrutiny on them to be diverse and eco friendly.

and my previous company. Read above why.

But for reforestation I believe the will hire you.

Again this is just my experience in northern BC.

My friend is a red seal chef and dealt with racism when working for PTI (camp company) and had to quit. Thick skin only goes so long when they keep calling you a fucking chink.

Granted all the people in the camp are really really friendly to the filipino workers, so im just assuming its a select few and hiring managers.

nothing yet ;(

Yeah I was gonna say, PTI is full of immigrants, thats wild.

When I was still working drilling rigs new guys got razzed hard for the first couple of weeks. Whether that guy was Asian, Native, Black, White, it didn't matter. We (Yes I partook) would ride new guys as hard as we could to try and get them to quit. If they didn't quit, we knew they weren't flakes and would treat them well after that (provided they had a good work ethic). I would never bring race into it myself as I am Scottish, Irish, Native, Japanese. I actually had to fight a couple of times because I look more Native than anything else and a white guy that was on this crew didn't particularly like that. But, I would give new guys shitty jobs to do. One of the best workers we had when I was on Ensign 6 was an Ethiopian who barely spoke english. I'm surprised he didn't kill our Driller or Motorhand at the time with all the racial slurs that would go at him. When he came back for his second hitch, we treated him like one of the family and the guy could outwork all of us, he just couldn't understand what we were saying most of the time so he was stuck as a Leasehand.

I am by no means saying treating people like shit is right. We found that if you treat people the way you would treat them in the real world they never work out and are always looking to take breaks and use the buddy system when not needed etc. I've seen a few handfuls of grown men cry due to getting teased and demeaned on the job.

Keep in mind also that not all rigs are like that. It does seem that these types of practices are less common than before but it still happens.

Survival of the fittest.

try sanjel, cascade Services, big eagle. well servicing / vac trucks

go to fsj. get a job as a swamper, get your class 1 or 3

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I will be working in fort Mac starting in January for at least 8 monthes. I'm Asian. I know a few other Asians coming up here as well. We are all mining engineers however working for Shell albian oil sands.
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How much do people make on drilling rigs? I just don't see the appeal of rigs when you can work on a trade and have steady work and be able to use it in BC too. I work for a producer and it's an excellent work environment, good pay, lots of time off.

You can make 10k a month, for 2-6 months, generally.