What’s it like to worn on an offshore oil rig?
If you think a job aboard an offshore oil rig involves hard work, then you may be right. Certainly it requires physical strength and stamina. But other than those, one doesn’t really need much to land an oil rig job. You don’t need to hold a college degree, and you don’t need previous oil industry experience, though a good background in something like electrical or mechanical work could get you a job working in other parts of an oil rig such as the engine room. Also, it would be a good idea to start working on land-based rigs, to acquire experience that can help you get an offshore oil rig job. Work on an oil rig goes on 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with laborers working 8- to 12-hour shifts. You can expect to work on an offshore oil rig for 14 days, then get the next 21 days off. This means you are on holiday more often than you are at work during the course of a year. Safety measures are enforced fully on offshore oil rigs, with the workers undergoing safety training before and
