Days per week (Destiny)

by bluerunner , Music City, Monday, August 07, 2017, 16:11 (2752 days ago) @ Cody Miller

When I worked in the Gulf of Mexico I left home early in the morning on Wednesdays, and returned home late at night on Wednesday 4-6 weeks later. The next Wednesday I started it all over again. I was on the clock 24 hours out of the day and worked 7 days a week.

I lived on a boat and traveled from rig to rig doing frac jobs. While running a job I could work up to 36 hours straight without sleep. If I got any sleep, it was short cat naps while they tripped tools downhole.

At the dock I never had a normal sleep schedule and worked every hour of the day to get loaded for the next set of jobs. 16 hour days were pretty common. The worst I can remember was a stretch of 2 weeks where I worked 20-22 hours a day. My body was shutting down pretty bad at the end.

I had a guy on one of my crews that ate ephedrine like candy. I wonder if he's still alive today. The last time I talked to him he was shipped off to work off the coast of Nigeria.