One of my few (I'm not really going to tell friends about this blog despite S-H's urging) readers asked about my job.
So. Here are some things I do:
a) I look at (and describe) a lot of dirt through a microscope.
b) I am 'the eyes in the field' for the geologists back in the city.
c) I communicate between the very different worlds of office guys and field roughnecks - there's some skill in being able to communicate and translate between these different worlds.
d) I oversee coring and wireline logging operations - I make sure cores get marked up correctly and that idiot Canadian oilfield men don't mess things up, because cores lose meaning if you don't know what depth they've come from.
And other stuff.
My winter projects are nice, though, because I don't really have that much to do. Often I'll only do something like three or four hours of work every three days. I may have slightly more to do this winter, but it should still be pretty relaxed. So I have time to myself to do all the things I mentioned in the first post. Which is nice.
It's a pretty good gig, all around.
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Do you not watch TV out there in canadia land either? I wonder how their shows hold up to ours.
ReplyDelete3-4 hours every three days? that sounds fantastic.
i am currently putting in my 12th hour here today, though i will go soon as soon as some files are done. so looks like i just did 2 weeks worth of your work in one day!
so what do you do once your winter projects are up? go back to the office?
and what are you knitting these days?
The one thing I do enjoy about Canadian TV (I'm especially excited about a winter Olympic year) is all the curling the Canadians show. You can almost always find good curling on tv, sometimes weeklong tournaments that get a lot of broadcast coverage.
ReplyDeleteBut the working hours can be... erratic. If I have to be awake at 4 in the morning, I'm up at 4 in the morning. If I have to not sleep all night, I don't sleep all night. I have to be awake when drilling is at a point where I have stuff to do - but then I usually have a few days off in between because of the nature of the drilling process.
As far as when my winter projects are over - I may get to do a few rotations on the horizontal rigs - an extra few weeks or months of work. That would be nice. But in general, I'll head back stateside and these few months of work will be most of my work for the year. I go to school in the autumns. I'm looking forward to having four or five months off in between work and school. I have some other things I work on down stateside, but I'm also contemplating some cross-country biking or something. We'll see.
I like how I have my life structured right now. A few months of work. A few months unstructured with grand possibilities, and a few months of school. Canada, who knows where, and Colorado. Keeps life a bit varied and interesting. Changes things up. Keeps me from getting into a rut.
Ah school...I loved college. So eye opening and full of ideas. Sounds great.
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