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Surveyors cash cow
Hey!
I finish my 2 years surveyors education within a couple of weeks. Im in a situation in my life at the moment where I feel like working abroad but also maximizing the salary I get paid by taking “odd” or less “desirable” surveying jobs, in my country (Sweden), that would be working with railroads which would often require you to work somewhere you dont have access to by commute and maby even weekends and nightshifts. Or so Ive heard. My question to you guys is, where can I find these types of jobs/gigs internationally. And im thinking like vanlife/RV, working where its cold and perhaps even dangerous (oil platforms) or several weeks at a time and then a few off. You get the question, but I’ll rephrase it, whats the highest paid per hour job a surveyor can do that doesnt require 10 or so years of experience.
Pardon my bad english
Thanks in advance
Erik, Sweden
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7 Replies
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I have heard through the years that the oil industry and pipelines pay very well.
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Much of it I’d say, would depend upon your threshhold for misery. Working in the Middle East use to pay very well, but from my experience, not nearly enough to compensate me for what I’d have to endure. I’d suggest remote work, perhaps the Arctic, perhaps in the oil industry or construction, where you would be working in a man camp with nowhere to spend your earnings and nothing else to do but work long hours, six or more days a week, until you hopefully leave with all of your earnings intact and before you go completely insane.
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West Texas oil and gas fields need every type of helper.
I know a dozen or so from here that are out there driving trucks back and forth from supply to rigs.
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You will need to make sure you have the legal right to work in the country that has the job opening. For the U.S., that may be difficult to get the work authorization as there are a limited amount of work visas available.
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Money isn’t everything, do what you like, life is short. A word to the wise is sufficient.
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Your English is pretty good. No need to apologize for that.
When I went to school (the British Columbia Institute of Technology) there was a recruiting office attached to the school. Potential employers would contact that office. I’d expect that your school also has such a thing.
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I worked with a guy in Denver who spent some time as a design engineer on the American military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan for a while. He said he made great money doing that and encouraged me to try it once I graduated. The downside there is obviously… there’s the remote chance you’ll get killed. I talked with another guy who lived in Texas and would occasionally ride a helicopter out to oil platforms in the gulf for a week. He said he made nice money doing that but that the work wasn’t regular so it would be hard to live off of. Anyway, yeah somewhere cold and miserable might be your best bet. Oil fields in Alaska or my home state of North Dakota would be good examples.
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