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I've been working on drilling rigs for the past two months.
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:00 AM Author: cummingtonite Some observations:
It's almost entirely Mexicans and whites out here. One or two black guys but that's it. Mexicans of all ages and young white dudes do the manual labor jobs, a few Mexicans and mostly white guys do the specialized roles, and almost only white dudes in the higher positions.
There are many felons out here. I have seen a few obvious skinheads. Almost everyone here has at least one DUI, if not more. You get to know your coworkers very intimately as you live and work with them for weeks, if not months at a time.
Everyone has a truck. If you don't have a truck, you're mocked. I don't have a truck. I get mocked. One dude called me gay because I said I was considering buying a used Toyota Tacoma. He said they're faggy.
Many veterans. It earns you some level of respect out here.
The neighboring towns closest to the rig are utter shitholes with overpriced groceries. I've never received so many likes on dating apps in my life. The women here are desperate to escape these towns. Average income seems to be 20k to 30k in these towns, according to Wikipedia.
The pay is hard to predict as you are sometimes out of work if there's no jobs. Much of my income is tax free. There are jobs paying upwards of $800 a day out here.
Taking questions. |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:01 AM Author: VoteRepublican (A true Chad!! where's your gf/wifew?) why drilling rig? is it a shale play? its unmarried men? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848492) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:16 AM Author: cummingtonite It pays well and forces me to be somewhat responsible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848514) |
Date: April 15th, 2025 6:02 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang why did you do this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848494) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:04 AM Author: cummingtonite It pays well and I needed the extra income to support some family members. I am handling the work and lifestyle well. I wake up, drive around the area either for groceries or to just get off the rig, come back, cook, then work. Every day of the week. It's the most money I've made in my life by a wide margin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848499) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:08 PM Author: Glory is fleeting, obscurity is forever How much? Very interesting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48851090) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:02 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang hourly pay? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848495) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:06 AM Author: cummingtonite It's hard to delineate. On paper it's $20/hr but I work 84 hour weeks and make $60 in per diem (tax free). I make a little over $400 a day on average. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848501) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:03 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang typical work day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848496) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:08 AM Author: cummingtonite I wake up, shower, drive somewhere either aimlessly or to get groceries. I come back, cook, watch TV, then work for 12 hours. I have a lot of downtime. I work about 2-3 solid hours, the rest I'm just waiting around. I try to pretend I'm a monk out here. I've lost weight and have started working out again using dumbbells since I've started. It's an ascetic lifestyle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848503) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:13 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang nice. no drink? reading any good books? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848509) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:14 AM Author: cummingtonite I reread Confederacy of Dunces recently. I read it last when I was 18, it was much better a decade later. I don't drink or do drugs, they breathalyze people randomly and search cars for shit every few months. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848512) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 7:40 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang search your car? what at like a security gate?
Great book. Last read it 20 years ago. Should re-read |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 8:19 AM Author: BakerHostetler ((zurich is stained)) It’s the goat modern novel. Better than franzen even ha ha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848617) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 8:57 PM Author: cummingtonite A few rigs search your car when you enter, but most do them randomly. They gave me shit because I had a growler in my car that hasn't had alcohol in it for decades lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48851048) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:40 AM Author: gedood persoon You should start talking like Ignatius to your coworkers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848793) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:56 AM Author: UhOh ignatius would have thrived in the oil field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848835) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 12:43 PM Author: gedood persoon i don't think so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48849380) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 1:33 PM Author: UhOh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48849526) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 1:04 PM Author: Rampart ( ) Ignatius couldn’t even sell hot dogs on the street. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48849432) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:03 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang best coworker stories? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848497) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:11 AM Author: cummingtonite The guy I've gotten to know best is a slumlord with 2 DUIs, and has started trusting me enough to say nigger to me as of last night. He claims to have 10 houses, all of them worth about 60-80k. He's hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. He doesn't seem to make any income off of this, he just wants to build equity. He's interesting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848504) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:13 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang addict? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848511) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:15 AM Author: cummingtonite Open alcoholic. He said he goes through a handle of whiskey a day when he's off. I believe him. He looks very sleazy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848513) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 7:40 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang any other real dirtbags? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848585) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:07 AM Author: AZNgirl Tariffing Half of her Hapa Son 145% how is ur pay tax free, u are working in mideast? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848502) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:12 AM Author: cummingtonite The mileage and per diem is tax free. It's a good chunk of my income. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848506) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:23 AM Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person Maybe you should get a truck. Faggot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848515) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:15 PM Author: William Badass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48851112) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:40 AM Author: AZNgirl Tariffing Half of her Hapa Son 145% have u ever thought abt sexing one of the other brehs? any scandals where brehs get "funky" with other brehs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848521) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:44 AM Author: cummingtonite The rig feels like one of the last places in America where you could be shot for being gay. I haven't seen any gay shit out here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848525) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:24 AM Author: AZNgirl Tariffing Half of her Hapa Son 145% damn, that sucks. sounds like no fun (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848735) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:44 AM Author: disco fries (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage) This life sounds amazing. Drive into town. Buy the same groceries. Cook the same meals. Watch the world through a windshield, as it all comes unwound. Work hard in the field, as it all passes slowly by. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848524) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:45 AM Author: cummingtonite I can take off whenever I want, I just have to request it. I accept that I must live my life in this way for the next couple of years to save money. So it goes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848526) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 7:02 AM Author: disco fries (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage) If you live like that, after 15 years in the fields, you can have a decent nest egg built up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848537) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:50 AM Author: Billy Buttfucker Where did you go to law school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848528) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 7:41 AM Author: Long Red Poon Tie Covering Your Wang pretty sure he said Hofstra (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848586) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 8:55 AM Author: potluck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848677) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 8:16 AM Author: Oh, you trade? (🧐) Yeah but how Tall are you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848615) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 8:32 AM Author: blow off some steam (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848638) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 8:40 AM Author: Rampart ( ) What is your housing situation? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848651) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 6:47 PM Author: cummingtonite I have a room in DFW that I almost never stay at except when I'm off, and I stay at a mancamp/hotel sometimes while I'm working but usually I stay onsite (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48850561) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:17 AM Author: which dad? Poa some 180 pics of the area/landscape
The fact that you have 20-40 IQ points on ur co-workers, do they not notice, look up to you, get suspicious of you, or do you code switch and act retarded around them |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:27 AM Author: blow off some steam xo isn’t high iq and this guy is probably equally as intelligent as his coworkers even though he is a Tacoma buying fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848743) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:35 AM Author: which dad? He reads books and therefore is smarter than 99% of bros (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848771) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 2:25 PM Author: cummingtonite https://ibb.co/album/LQ2BL7 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48849709) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 2:56 PM Author: SkaddenArse 180 pics. Any chicks work there? Are they slutty? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48849828) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 3:45 PM Author: cummingtonite I haven't seen any but I know there are some women that work for my company. I've been told to stay away from them, that they're all insane whores. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48850019) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:04 PM Author: uncrustables 180
you’re living the dream
Content creation is off the charts
Are you white? Any asians or turds? I’m assuming no jews.
What type of role do you have? Like a boss? |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 5:57 AM Author: cummingtonite I'm white. The only asian I've seen out here is a guy doing the same thing as me, but he was leaving as I was coming in. No jews.
It's more of a consulting position. The righands don't fuck with me generally. |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 7:44 AM Author: uncrustables 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852117) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 10:49 PM Author: hours-hungry BILLPIG 180 billion. Nothing in the rules says a dog can't be a roughneck This is incredible content and if ur around enough to take questions, balding xo lawyers would love to pepper you with questions. How did you find xo |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 5:27 AM Author: cummingtonite I've been here since 2020. I just browse a few niche forums and read about xo as a "conservative lawyer forum" and had to check it out. I've been here ever since. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852011) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 11:05 PM Author: Kenneth Play great pics. and really fine looking dog. what's that burnt in the pot? or is it a barrel? in front of red thomas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48851547) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 5:29 AM Author: cummingtonite It's a sieve. There's drilling mud in it. It's complicated to explain verbally without a diagram, but to make it simple there's mud constantly being circulated throughout the entire depth of the well as it's being drilled. The mud provides pressure so the well doesn't cave in, as well as lubrication/cooling but most importantly it transports the small bits of rock that get drilled out. My job is to analyze those cuttings for various properties such as lithology, grain size, gas/oil content, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852012) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 7:37 AM Author: Billy Buttfucker Is this esoteric sambo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852111) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 8:08 AM Author: cummingtonite Yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852148) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 2:26 PM Author: cummingtonite The guys in my profession are generally pretty smart, surprisingly. I do not interact with the roustabouts much but they seem dumb. The average person out here is just anti-social, supporting a family, a felon, or some combination of the three. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48849711) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:46 AM Author: Covid was a Hoax do you ever wish youd gotten into making youtube videos during covid? you could have millions of followers by now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48848804) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 12:31 PM Author: Non sequitur how much money is that a year
tell us more about the women/dating scene |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 5:33 AM Author: cummingtonite I just used a take home pay calculator and it's equivalent to about 115k a year. I just started though. I can't handle office jobs, they drive me insane.
The women out in these towns almost always have kids, and are fat. The ones that don't are boring or insane. I have become much more desirable to women on the apps lately as I'm not from the area, and most of these places are poor as fuck. I just worked in the Choctaw Nation and it was depressing as hell. I have accepted I will be single for a few years while I do this job. |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 3:14 PM Author: No Paye No Gain i thought you were on a water rig and was like wtf how is he driving into town daily (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48849904) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 10:54 PM Author: William Badass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48851518) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 9:03 PM Author: cannon What are you driving now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48851071) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 5:30 AM Author: cummingtonite 2017 Honda civic. It's holding up well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852013) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 12:04 AM Author: dirte 180
Mud man? |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 7:34 AM Author: disco fries (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage) 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852106) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 8:03 AM Author: cannon He’s definitely not throwing chain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852142) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 5:31 AM Author: my dog is a bigger TRUMP fan than I am (Fight! Fight! Fight!) lulz at this fagg0t who doesn’t own a truck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710788&forum_id=2#48852014) |