Come on then, what do we all do to run our pride and joy ?

[rwilsonrs4]

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Hafe man half mattress [/quote]
LOL not heard that one in maybe ......a couple o days another is sleep till wer'e hungry and eat till wer'e tired but its simply not true , we do our work at night cos dayshift passes on the difficult stuff to nights [/quote]

i'm sevice hand scum like youself Fishing Hand i did work a long time a go with a cementer named Dougie Hector and we gauged our sleeps in Hectors a full hector was 24hrs as he did lie in his pit for a full day once so he is probably rsponcible for the cemnters love of sleep theory [/quote]

Weatherford right ?? i was talking to fishing guya while back about cars and i said i had an RS4 and he sais ah one o our guys has ane , (sorry i can remember your first name ) broon , then it clicked

[jamiedal]

Technical Supervisor on an Offshore Windfarm

Pays the bills and got me a B7 RS4 so it can't be too bad

p.s I know this is an old thread that's how bored I am at work

[Ellis]

Technical Supervisor on an Offshore Windfarm

For whom do you work and what windfarm at the moment? How is the industry in general at present?

I was an engineer with Technip Offshore Wind Ltd before they gave up the ghost and made us all redundant. They made an absolute muckery of costing Westermost Rough amongst some other developments and lost a horrendous sum of money.

Back working in Oil & Gash industry now

[birdiemachine]

Pro golfer (in my head)

[jamiedal]

Technical Supervisor on an Offshore Windfarm

For whom do you work and what windfarm at the moment? How is the industry in general at present?

I was an engineer with Technip Offshore Wind Ltd before they gave up the ghost and made us all redundant. They made an absolute muckery of costing Westermost Rough amongst some other developments and lost a horrendous sum of money.

Back working in Oil & Gash industry now

Sorry to hear that Ellis, I work for Siemens at West of Duddon Sands Windfarm in the Irish Sea.

The industry is absolutely booming at the minute with Round 3 due to start early 2016, going to be lots of jobs created for trainee technicians
I'm full time so I would like to think safe for the next 20 years at least as the windfarm is projected to run for 25 years if all goes well, however we have just lost several technicians who went contracting in Germany..18 months work, 52 euros an hour and as many hours as you can possibly do....makes me cry when I do the math

Jamie

[Deano_123]

Technical Supervisor on an Offshore Windfarm

For whom do you work and what windfarm at the moment? How is the industry in general at present?

I was an engineer with Technip Offshore Wind Ltd before they gave up the ghost and made us all redundant. They made an absolute muckery of costing Westermost Rough amongst some other developments and lost a horrendous sum of money.

Back working in Oil & Gash industry now

Sorry to hear that Ellis, I work for Siemens at West of Duddon Sands Windfarm in the Irish Sea.

The industry is absolutely booming at the minute with Round 3 due to start early 2016, going to be lots of jobs created for trainee technicians
I'm full time so I would like to think safe for the next 20 years at least as the windfarm is projected to run for 25 years if all goes well, however we have just lost several technicians who went contracting in Germany..18 months work, 52 euros an hour and as many hours as you can possibly do....makes me cry when I do the math

Jamie

Arent you legally restricted on the hours you can work per week in Germany? I'm sure we were'nt allowed to work on a sunday either.

I'm a regional supervisor for an oil and gas exploration company

[Ellis]

@jamiedal glad to hear the industry is going well. I sorely miss parts of offshore wind but there other bits that I don't miss so much. I think the developers have a lot to learn in both safety and technical knowledge. We were happily babbling along with a recordable injury case frequency 5-10 times higher than what would be acceptable in O&G.

@Deano_123 I recall something about working time limits in Germany, even within coastal waters in our case. Remember having difficulties with our techs working 84 hours per week and the mountains of paperwork that ensued.

[Deano_123]

Which part of O&G you in Ellis, guessing upstream being in Aberdeen?

[Ellis]

Which part of O&G you in Ellis, guessing upstream being in Aberdeen?

Large subsea engineering/installation contractor at the moment. I am not quite doing 'engineering' in my current capacity but with things the way they are at present, I am happy to have a job.

[Deano_123]

Sounds interesting atleast. Theres not much work out there anywhere at the moment, normally I'd be swamped with tenders but I've only got 3 on the go which are all for <beep> holes with mickey mouse operators as none of the IOC's want to risk exploration

[victor2vt]

Bloody hell, can't believe I started this thread 6 YEARS ago !!

[anawaz]

Information Technology -
Network and Security Consultant

[FaisalJ]

F1 aerodynamicist (and semi-pro basketball player in my spare time.)

Oh wait, no, that was the plan, but it's OK because I'm in a very related field... Risk Manager at a Hedge Fund.

It's OK. I'll start training my 2 year old to play ball and live through him.

[alefustec]

Nothing.......I'm a millionaire of course like everyone else in Jersey!

No wait, I was born here, the millionaires are the ones who come to live here....

Commercial Director for Intellectual Property services provider (patents and trademarks)............keeps the wife in shoes and handbags and me in the RS4. It's also a great way to kill a dinner party conversation when someone asks "so what do you do?" 5 mins in and they have a WTF expression on their face, 5 mins later and it's changed to "just kill me now". Best bit is I have worked here 14 years and I still don't exactly know and def cannot explain it.

[gilly]

RN Submariner.