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I was about to say the same thing. I went from going to a class in HS to swinging a hammer and pulling wrenches for no less than 12-14 hrs a day for weeks at a time. Literally 2 days after I graduated. I can’t tell you how many times I went in at 6 am and didn’t leave that bitch till 8-9pm, then realizing we’d missed lunch and all that. Stop and look around and was like damn, it’s already nighttime. What a bunch of pussies man.

It’s apples to oranges. I’ve done both.

Offshore can be physically taxing if you’re not the safety guy or some shite. But you at least get to recover on your days off.

Finance bros really never get a day off. It’s mentally exhausting even before the abusive culture.

Anecdote, I always slept good after a long day on a rig. Deal work would stress me out so much I’d go days without really sleeping. But I never worried about getting killed by a crane operator running deals either. They’re just different and hard in their own way.

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Posted by lostinbr

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Oct 2017

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Posted on 5/10/24 at 7:49 am to billjamin

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It’s apples to oranges. I’ve done both.

Offshore can be physically taxing if you’re not the safety guy or some shite. But you at least get to recover on your days off.

Finance bros really never get a day off. It’s mentally exhausting even before the abusive culture.

I’m not trying to be argumentative, but there are plenty of O&G jobs where mental burnout is a much larger factor than physical exhaustion. Particularly for field engineers at service companies. And a lot of those folks work on-call rather than on a rotation, where they just bounce from shitshow to shitshow trying to unfrick various situations. (I’ve been one of those guys.

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