It doesn't take a whole lot of smarts for alot of those jobs, but if you're afraid of HARD work, don't bother applying.

The roughnecks are the ones that come to mind and they have to work about as hard as any job I can think of. They're usually not the most graceful, the most educated or the most polished, but they prove day in and day out that they are NOT afraid of hard work. I admire them for that.

The guys on the rig work in ALL weather. Even if they're stripping pipe at full tilt, if it comes snow or hail or driving thunderstorm, they keep stripping pipe. As a group, they're about as tough as they come.

In the oil boom of the early eighties I worked in engineering for an oil well logging company that developed their own technology. THAT would be the side of the business to be in. I remember one of our wireline trucks had a bumper sticker on the back that read: "Don't tell my Momma that I'm oilfield trash, she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."

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