Quote Originally Posted by fitz19d View Post
But the oil jobs that actually pay well did require more mechanics certifications/experience and that sort of thing I thought? I've thought about a career change of sorts, then again I figure yeah it's good money now, but how long of doing the grunt work till your ate up?

Teaching myself a little plumbing seems like an awful easy job to get paid decent. Now electricity is still scary/devils magic to me.
12-15 an hour and you do two weeks on one week off. For your on weeks you can work as many hours as you can stand. So you get time and a half over 40. Lets say you only work 60 hours a week (pitiful I do that on a slow week at my shop) this would put you at 1680 for two weeks work at 12 an hour. Then you have your week off where you get paid 40 hours to stay home.

Not a bad deal if you ask me. I did some math and was about to go do that for 6 months and bank the money to start my shop with. Wife said no. So I did it on credit.