1. no. no one cares. i've known company men who were selling insurance.
2. very dependent on how hard you work and who you know. coming from the shop, i'd say after a good 5 years in the field you can start feeling it out and try to advance.
3. first and foremost get on a rig. you'll start at the bottom. you can work your way to a floor hand and derrickman if you are competent. if you could find a path to driller, you could likely become a company man. this is something probably along the lines of 10 years.

there's no typical path, but you need to prove yourself in the field and make some friends in the right places. i'd say the majority of it is to keep your mouth shut and work your arse off and people will find you.

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Posted by JL

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Posted on 11/28/13 at 9:00 am to Dooshay

Being that you have a degree you probably wouldn't need to start as a roustabout or roughneck and work your way up. Easiest way I've seen for people to get on as a site manager today woul be get on with a service company as a mud engineer or frac crew supervisor. Get some personal contacts with operators and after you have proven yourself ask about becoming a company man. Having a degree will help you get that service supervisor role or get you into mud school. Depending on how the future of fracking goes that may be the best route. Most operators want somebody on location who has a good understanding of running a frac job (running and setting plugs, perfing, pumping the frac, drilling out plugs, etc). These jobs are in high demand and could get you on with an operator the quickest, once you are in if you are good they will train you to supervise drilling locations. This in just my opinion, others on the board may think otherwise. If you just want to go straight from service company to drilling mud engineer or directional driller are best routes but dd job are hard to get and once you get them you will probably be making so much money you won't want to make a move.

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