Quote Originally Posted by cmarlow View Post
You know there are people who just do the shutdown circuit too. They go from one to the next just like a bunch of rodeo cowboys. It takes a lot both physically and mentally, and the mental part might be the more important part. The longer the run is the more cranky everybody tends to get and only the strong can survive without going completely nuts.
About like some of us rig welders all pretty much hung together on the pipeline circuit of traveling in packs like a bunch of hungry wolves rolling into a rig building yard. IF you hired 1 you hired all of us. piss on 1 without good reason and we all spooled up, and headed to another yard, have a good reason and we cut him from the sec ourselves.
There were a few times where I spent quite a number of months in the field without ever going home, what difference could it make anyway as long as I was home for things they thought important like birthdays.