We had a down turn in 2014. They gave my wife an early retirement package that was worth 2 years pay. Most of the imported skilled people left. Now things are starting to boom again. But there is not enough local skill people to do the work, but the import people are not coming back. For the most part. They don't like the weather. The wages are still staying high.

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my mouth and tongue is still swollen from the anesthetic..

im full of painus right now... just bursting at the seams..

When I came out of high school in the mid 70's. You was almost guaranteed a job in either the steel mills or coal mines here. They guys was making just under $100,000 with OT then. :eek: New cars, trucks, bikes, boats, guns, drugs, and new houses was the norm. Then in the early 80's, the bottom fell out. The first thing to go was the boat, followed by the bike, truck, guns. When the house went, so did the wife. I seen it repeat over and over so many times. Some of these guys have never recovered. My cousin was one of them. Got into drugs real heavy, and it killed him.

All numb and looking like a stroke victim? :rofl2:

The gf saw this on my phone and was cracking up..lol

Go over to madwi's place. He can fix the pain with a BFH. :rofl2:

Here, you can have the same job. Live in one of the outer counties like me in Fayette and get paid $10.00 hr. The same job in Pittsburgh would pay $30.00.
A distance of 30 miles. :shakes head:

The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) XXXI
 

Like Alaska. They were paying piping designers $90-120/hr with OT to go up there cuz no one wants to deal with that cold. Not to mention the cost of living is ridiculous.

Hi.

How’s AP?

Bassturds!

When they started to work on the pipe line up there. I turned down a job up there welding. Went through the interview and welding test with flying colors. Started asking about living conditions and cost of living. I just about fainted.:eek: One egg was over a buck, loaf of bead was 10 bucks, gallon of milk was 10 bucks. It would costs a mint to live up there at the time. Plus women was few and far between. STD's was running high too. :eek:

F14’s?

Yep

I worked a job up there for the Arctic drilling program 3-4 years ago. I never made the trip but we were instructed by the client on how to behave and react even in the grocery store. They were paranoid because O&G already has such a bad rep up there they didn’t want any more negative PR.

That's what I thought you wanted. :confused:

F14's in gloss gunmetal

19x9.5 +20 255/35/19
19x11 +15 305/30/19

Yeah, that's my set at GYW waiting to be installed tomorrow

It was the wild, wild wild wild west when they started the pipe line up there. :eek: Those idiots when they got time off would tear up bars and anything else.

When I worked for Elliott. I had to go through survival training to go on the Hibernia drill rig off the coast of Newfoundland in the north Atlantic. The rig has some Elliott equipment on it. Did the training and never got the chance to go. :shakes head: The training was on how to survive 30 deg water temps. :eek:

Want a pair in glossy black

How they gonna fit?

My first pics were just the wheels without tires :ugh2:

I’ve had to do helicopter survival training

Then they were shipped

Did that too when I worked for the DoD. That was fun times back then. Having to fly with drug fueled psycho chopper pilots from Nam that washed out of fighter school. :eek: Everyone should go through that just for chit and giggles.

It was either the f14s or the TSW nurburgring, but I hear the f14s have better fitment

I'm good with flush!

Then the installation

got a "raise", training new new AP, behind on my work by about a week.

**** it, I'm taking Tuesday off to get photos of Indycar training at COTA. :rock:

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yes.:icon14:

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where's my duuudez at?

They went to sleep?

Playing Linesman! :icon14:

I'm off to baid...night :tiphat:

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