Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

You should worry about a toxic backward looking company sucking the life out of you more than rotating and pitiful money making.

It certainly does depend on alot of factors if this type of job is for you.
You seem to ask all the right questions, so you have thought it out well.

After several years here in Irving facility, I've found that being a 'Lefty' has been a strong advantage. Almost as much as in boxing or writing literature (Shakespeare was a lefty/sinistrial.)
I've found that virtually every first encounter with my Irving co-workers - the lefty angle is a surprising success.

Oh. Wait.
This is about Rotating jobs.
I thought it was Repetitive Motion, as in the injury we all get eventually.
Never mind.

@1odk+1aDkhohl

Who is hating on Midland?

Rotated twice so far in my career - single during both assignments, but it was an amazing experience. Time off was great and poured myself into the role more than I could working 5/2.

Wow, lot of hate on the Midland drillers! At least they deliver.

If you want to get a job as a rotator date the drilling supervisor in Houston.

Every rotator I know is in drilling.

In my 35 years I worked three expat family assignments (Muscat, Aberdeen and London) and then rotated (28/28) for 25 years. All international assignments with a home base in The Woodlands, Texas. During my career I rotated through 37 different countries. The things I saw and places I’ve been would fill a book, but I won’t bore you :).

To the OP, let me say good luck to you! This is what I found, your experience my be different.

1) The time off (every other month off) was incredible. Really nuts.

2) The salary was also nuts considering that I only worked 6 months a year. I retired FI

3) You will miss a lot of family time. For me, it was tough to be a father every other month.

4) My experience is that once you prove your self as an EM rotator, that’s it, you do it for the rest of your EM career, or quit EM and move to another company offering a more traditional work schedule.

I have mostly good thoughts about my years as a rotator. A few ‘pi-s poor ones’ but mostly good for sure

Take care

Rotating is much better than expat or domestic 5x2. You only work half the year and you have an actual relief to handle things while you're off rotation. When you're off, you're off...

Everything else the company does not provide any additional coverage so you're pretty much on call 24/7.

One more for women rotators, I once had a female colleague who had a child during rotating assignment. Morning and Evening “Bus Runs” (Helicopter stopping at each platform), she’d send in whatever she’d pumped since the last run for her baby.

Rotating gives you a chance to practice retirement. I loved it and miss it.

My kids are now in their mid 30’s. I worked 7x7 in the GoM from before their birth to after the younger one’s graduation in 2003. I then went 28x28 to Chad, Nigeria, Indonesia and EG.

One of my daughter’s friends once commented, when they were in JR High, that it was so cool that I could be there full time, half the time, when her dad could never be there. My kids definitely knew me better than their friends knew their dads. Eating lunch with them in elementary school was a blast, especially when I’d come directly there from offshore with my gray coveralls on and my son had convinced his whole class that his dad was an astronaut!

Children typically think it’s a great lifestyle as long as the parent at home AND the parent abroad work to make it so. Watched many newbies drive themselves crazy during 1st few hitches on. If married, it definitely takes 2. Not a lifestyle for those who are prone to jealousy.

You develop 2 different personalities. A work and a home personality. When I repatriated and returned to a M-F (5x2) job it nearly drove both my wife and I to a breaking point which had never occurred during our previous 30+ years of which I was rotational.

My son-in-law, engineer for a major EPC firm has stated numerous times how special my daughter is with him rotating to Angola, Gladstone, Perth, Algeria over their 10 years together. She knows and appreciates the lifestyle.

Hints, call only 1 time a week. For the spouse at home, never complain about something the rotator cannot handle from afar. Me to my wife: “If it’s truly an emergency, call 911, not the sat phone in Kome Village”…

4 years into 5x2, we’re still working on the adjustment of no lengthy alone time, but we’ll see it through.