Politics

[WAB]

What kind of pay and opportunities can a guy with no experience in the oil fields expect?

I ran an oil refinery and then an ag chemical complex in Alaska. Pay rates are significantly higher than the lower 48. When desert storm hit we kept our guys whole when they were called up. I joked that one of our guys was the only door gunner making $130,000/yr!

 

[Mekaniks]

What kind of pay and opportunities can a guy with no experience in the oil fields expect?

Depends if you’re a petroleum engineer or laborer, just gotta have the skills to pay the bills.
There is going to be lots of opportunity for folks that want to work. Especially with the current job market…

 

[WAB]

Depends if you’re a petroleum engineer or laborer, just gotta have the skills to pay the bills.
There is going to be lots of opportunity for folks that want to work. Especially with the current job market…

Check into the tech training at Kenai peninsula college.

 

[Mekaniks]

Check into the tech training at Kenai peninsula college.

Yes sir.
Avtec in Seward is also a good avenue for Vocational Tech.
As well the Apprenticeship programs are going to be growing.
There is lots of opportunities coming for folks that want to build skills and go to work.

 

[WAB]

Yes sir.
Avtec in Seward is also a good avenue for Vocational Tech.
As well the Apprenticeship programs are going to be growing.
There is lots of opportunities coming for folks that want to build skills and go to work.

When I was running KNO the process tech grads were 100% placement. Great opportunity for someone to build skills and a career.

 

[Corey0372]

Depends if you’re a petroleum engineer or laborer, just gotta have the skills to pay the bills.
There is going to be lots of opportunity for folks that want to work. Especially with the current job market…

would just be a laborer, I have a CDL, but no relevant experience in anything in the field,

how long are some of these Avtec programs? would committing to one now be a waste of time? miss the boat so to speak

 

[Corey0372]

When I was running KNO the process tech grads were 100% placement. Great opportunity for someone to build skills and a career.

What's process tech? haha

 

[Corey0372]

Yes sir.
Avtec in Seward is also a good avenue for Vocational Tech.
As well the Apprenticeship programs are going to be growing.
There is lots of opportunities coming for folks that want to build skills and go to work.

kinda what im trying to lean into, hard to to decide where to invest my time and energy/future,

 

[Mekaniks]

would just be a laborer, I have a CDL, but no relevant experience in anything in the field,

how long are some of these Avtec programs? would committing to one now be a waste of time? miss the boat so to speak

If you already have your CDL, get your foot in the door driving truck and go from there. Lots of work for CDL truck drivers

 

[flatwater bill]

@WAB Kudo's for keeping your men whole when called up. That's the right thing to do. I think I would do most anything for $130K (if it didn't involve children or farm animals). Seriously, think it would be an adventure to work up there for a couple of years..........FWB

 

[Tanks]

When I was running KNO the process tech grads were 100% placement. Great opportunity for someone to build skills and a career.

Instrument techs the same.

 

[geoff rath]

Please, someone tell me I'm wrong; today is Biden's birthdate, same as mine. I'm totally bereft ... at least I share it with J D Jones, esq ;-)

 

[Ray B]

; today is Biden's birthdate, same as mine.

From the way Biden looked today, you'll have your birthday back to yourself in a year or two, maybe less.

 

[WAB]

What's process tech? haha

A diploma that prepares you to be a process operator. Fantastic career for someone who doesn’t want to get a four year degree.

 

[WAB]

Instrument techs the same.

Agreed. Alaska is critically short of instrument techs, electricians, machinist mechanics and process operators. There are also good opportunities for crane operators and truck drivers. One could do far worse in a non-degreed career.

 

[Red Leg]

Another of these very brief things posted by a Russian blogger. In this case three photos from a town in eastern Russia with a population of just over 100,000. These plaques are of hometown men known to be KIA in the war thus far. It would not include missing, which based on Russian efforts to slow roll casualty reports could be quite large, or maimed and wounded in action.

These are admitted loss percentages of a city's population approaching or exceeding WWII monuments in this country for similar sized towns. Note, the city fathers already have the bases in place for the next plaque.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/180gu10

 

[Wheels]

The Navy was very proud of the diversity of it's P-8 crews when it did this photo op. They aren't giving out any information regarding the crew that overshot the runway in Hawaii yesterday.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/politics/us-navy-jet-overshoots-runway-hawaii-intl-hnk/index.html

Makes an individual wonder if DEI has done the same to commercial carriers.

 

[Doubleplay]

The Navy was very proud of the diversity of it's P-8 crews when it did this photo op. They aren't giving out any information regarding the crew that overshot the runway in Hawaii yesterday.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/politics/us-navy-jet-overshoots-runway-hawaii-intl-hnk/index.html

Makes an individual wonder if DEI has done the same to commercial carriers.

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Do you find something wrong with the diversity? I didn't get the point of this post.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

Yes sir.
Avtec in Seward is also a good avenue for Vocational Tech.
As well the Apprenticeship programs are going to be growing.
There is lots of opportunities coming for folks that want to build skills and go to work.

My youngest leaves for AVTEC in January - heating/plumbing program. By summer she'll be able to do what she wants. She passed the summer as the interim buildings and grounds director for the City of Dillingham. She "apprenticed" with a local guy for a while on plumbing and heating. She is 20, and wants to own her own heating and plumbing business here; currently we have none. When she finishes AVTEC, Dillingham will be her oyster. Last night she worked on my stove in my shed; it cost me a tank of gas, and based on the cost when she brought back the receipt with my charge card, there couldn't have been fumes in her Jeep.

@Corey0372 ... I share that because across a lot of AK there are jobs freaking anywhere. You can drive a truck? You could have a job tomorrow in many places. My other daughter is on month number 2 of a long term JH subbing gig. She took a year off school to earn money for school. She looked into the JH/HS here, and was hired to fill in for an overseas teacher that they haven't been able to get the paperwork sorted out. Frankly I wonder if she'll be the teacher the rest of the year. It's just the reality out here.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

@Doubleplay ... I did (got his point). Diversity? Nothing wrong with it. Making it the focus of hiring? Absolutely an issue.

Maybe the runway overshoot was coincidental. Maybe it was the result of utilizing people who did not have the requisite skills, in the name of satisfying some other criterion.