The other day I was asked if I like my job. Answering honestly I replied, "I don't love it.”
My job is currently called a "Wireline Open Hole Field Operator". I am the strong back who assists an engineer in logging recently drilled wells for the Gas and Oil industry. My job is simply to hook up the sheaves, connect the tools to the wire line, and drive the logging truck to and from a well location.
As I stated; I do not love my job and in fact I find it to be lacking for me, like it is missing something I need for a job to be fulfilling. My past jobs were all in the call-center business taking technical support calls for various types of products.
I have done work for Gateway, Dell, and Intel just to name a few and I enjoyed the technical aspect of it for a while, but the customer element always wore me down to the point of not caring about my job any more. Finally I got to a breaking point and left the business.
I was then asked, “If you could choose any job at any company what would it be?” I found this a little difficult to answer. So I started with asking myself; what do I enjoy doing? The answer I came up with was; I enjoy working with my brain, I enjoy learning new and interesting things. I enjoy working with like-minded people, people who I can work with on the same intellectual level, tackling challenging problems and coming up with solutions together as a team. Call centers were a poor substitute for that.
As for the subject(s), I find that I have interests in many areas such as; Computers, Chemistry, Hydroponics, Electronics, and Physics. I am self-taught on all of the above to the point that I have some applicable working knowledge in each field, some more than others.
With the description of what I enjoy doing, what is a job like that called, and where do I start? I don’t want to work in the oil field for the rest of my life; even if the money is good I can’t say that I am happy doing it.
Thank you for reading.
I look forward to hearing the public’s thoughts.
Atrum.
My job is currently called a "Wireline Open Hole Field Operator". I am the strong back who assists an engineer in logging recently drilled wells for the Gas and Oil industry. My job is simply to hook up the sheaves, connect the tools to the wire line, and drive the logging truck to and from a well location.
As I stated; I do not love my job and in fact I find it to be lacking for me, like it is missing something I need for a job to be fulfilling. My past jobs were all in the call-center business taking technical support calls for various types of products.
I have done work for Gateway, Dell, and Intel just to name a few and I enjoyed the technical aspect of it for a while, but the customer element always wore me down to the point of not caring about my job any more. Finally I got to a breaking point and left the business.
I was then asked, “If you could choose any job at any company what would it be?” I found this a little difficult to answer. So I started with asking myself; what do I enjoy doing? The answer I came up with was; I enjoy working with my brain, I enjoy learning new and interesting things. I enjoy working with like-minded people, people who I can work with on the same intellectual level, tackling challenging problems and coming up with solutions together as a team. Call centers were a poor substitute for that.
As for the subject(s), I find that I have interests in many areas such as; Computers, Chemistry, Hydroponics, Electronics, and Physics. I am self-taught on all of the above to the point that I have some applicable working knowledge in each field, some more than others.
With the description of what I enjoy doing, what is a job like that called, and where do I start? I don’t want to work in the oil field for the rest of my life; even if the money is good I can’t say that I am happy doing it.
Thank you for reading.
I look forward to hearing the public’s thoughts.
Atrum.
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