Posted on Oct 22, 2020
Oil Jobs Are Big Risk, Big Pay. Green Energy Offers Stability And Passion
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In 2008, Daimon Rhea moved to Utah to find work in the oil fields. He didn't have any experience — and he didn't need any.
"I was out there for two days and I had a job making about $30 an hour," he says. He started as a roughneck, doing hard physical labor on drilling sites, and easily pulled in double what he could have earned back home in California.
"I was able to turn my life around," Rhea says.
It wasn't easy — the hours were rough as a single dad — but Rhea was making great money.
But he started to get weary of the repeated rounds of layoffs as the industry went through its boom and bust cycles. Rhea eventually walked away from the high pay of the oil fields and found work in construction instead.
"I was out there for two days and I had a job making about $30 an hour," he says. He started as a roughneck, doing hard physical labor on drilling sites, and easily pulled in double what he could have earned back home in California.
"I was able to turn my life around," Rhea says.
It wasn't easy — the hours were rough as a single dad — but Rhea was making great money.
But he started to get weary of the repeated rounds of layoffs as the industry went through its boom and bust cycles. Rhea eventually walked away from the high pay of the oil fields and found work in construction instead.
Oil Jobs Are Big Risk, Big Pay. Green Energy Offers Stability And Passion
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One of the most rewarding, unscrupulous, backstabbing, racist job that I had.
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Good grief, I have a close friend who is an engineer for a power company. The problem with solar power is peek production for solar and wind are mid day, Peek energy use is early morning and early evening. The other problem is solar and wind simply are not robust enough when energy demands are increased. That is why California is having brown outs. With oil and natural gas fired systems you can very easily increase output , you simply can’t do that with solar and wind power.
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