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Wurkin in the oil patch
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:35:29 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote: Someone here mentioned doing offshore oil work and I worked on drill rigs in Wyoming when I was younger so thought it might be just what my 19 yr old son needs to get his head screwed on straight. Make some money, see what real work is, see how rough people can really be and THEN go to college. So, found him the ideal job, no experience needed, 20 days on 10 off, they pay for room and board while on, reasonable pay, work on rear deck of boats setting anchors for drill rigs. They actually need people. Went home and told my son to go online and apply. "NO WAY, I dont want to do that", he says. "You just want to get rid of me". To which I say, "Yeah, and so what, it's good money and you are hardly earning anything right now". He resists saying he's taking classes at community college and does earn some money but I say 6 hours a semester is BS. I tell my wife about this job and she sides with him saying "if he goes off on one of those boats he'll lose his gf, you know how hard it was when you did that stuff". I think, being only 19, he needs to lose the gf so I am going to apply more pressure. Why not pay for him to go to school full time? Otherwise charge him rent for living at home. Our situation was slightly different but when my sons came back after graduating college and wanting to live home, I made some rules: They would have to pay a reasonable amount of rent and follow house rules. I told them that I would hold the rent as a deposit against graduate school expenses but they would lose it otherwise. That went over like a lead baloon but my wife backed me up because of the graduate school provision. They both moved out and got places of their own within a short time and that was fine with me. |
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