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<blockquote data-quote="excat" data-source="post: 2585615" data-attributes="member: 29449"><p>Starting pay is more than likely going to be better for a wireline company. Frac work sucks, just plain and simple, it sucks, boring, loud, dirty work. I'd go to a larger wireline, but the hours will probably suck worse (as meaning more hours) than your typical frac job. You work with and transport radioactive material for a wireline company, if that bothers you any, some people it may. Wireline is going to be easier work for the most part, you rig up, put your tool together, and sit in the truck out of the weather (really nice to be able to sit in the truck on a cold winter night job that lasts all day and all night in 10 degree weather). For the most part, rig hands love wireline guys, that is when the rig guys catch a break, so everyone is generally pretty happy to see you. Most accidents that happen to wireline crews are wrecking their trucks on the road, the trucks are very top heavy, and have never heard of one of those wrecks that didn't end in some kind of fatality. Better chance to move up doing frac work though I would think. Only a few postions on a wireline truck, 3-4 man crew is the norm I saw, compared to a lot of people on a frac crew, from drivers, riggers, techs, engineers, etc. There's give and take. </p><p></p><p>I have a friend that is a frac engineer for Halliburton, and a friend that does wireline for Baker Hughes, and each love their jobs.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My .02</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="excat, post: 2585615, member: 29449"] Starting pay is more than likely going to be better for a wireline company. Frac work sucks, just plain and simple, it sucks, boring, loud, dirty work. I'd go to a larger wireline, but the hours will probably suck worse (as meaning more hours) than your typical frac job. You work with and transport radioactive material for a wireline company, if that bothers you any, some people it may. Wireline is going to be easier work for the most part, you rig up, put your tool together, and sit in the truck out of the weather (really nice to be able to sit in the truck on a cold winter night job that lasts all day and all night in 10 degree weather). For the most part, rig hands love wireline guys, that is when the rig guys catch a break, so everyone is generally pretty happy to see you. Most accidents that happen to wireline crews are wrecking their trucks on the road, the trucks are very top heavy, and have never heard of one of those wrecks that didn't end in some kind of fatality. Better chance to move up doing frac work though I would think. Only a few postions on a wireline truck, 3-4 man crew is the norm I saw, compared to a lot of people on a frac crew, from drivers, riggers, techs, engineers, etc. There's give and take. I have a friend that is a frac engineer for Halliburton, and a friend that does wireline for Baker Hughes, and each love their jobs. My .02 [/QUOTE]
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