Heaven forgive me if I ever complained of boredom on the rig. I had one calm day on the day after Christmas, and then WHAM! another failure yesterday causing us to make the rig stop drilling. I solved the problem relatively quickly, but the sheer volume of failures is starting to wear on everybody's nerves -- most especially my own.
Is my job cursed? Specifically, is this job cursed with the above phrase; the classic Chinese ill-wish? I have been rather lucky in my past jobs. Whatever troubleshooting has been required has been minimal and infrequent compared to many jobs. I suppose I might be paying my karmic due for such a string of good fortune.
Of course I'm more worried that management is going to see another side of this: that the one constant in all of these failures is me.
In other news, we'll be done drilling this section late tonight. That means I might get sent home while they run casing tomorrow. It will only be 2-3 days off, with an unfortunate amount of travel time to further foreshorten it (4 hr drive each way to the heliport and a night spent at a nearby hotel prior to departure), but with any luck I might be in town to celebrate New Year's -- with whomever happens to be in town as well.
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3 comments:
How nice to know that you've been doing a great job. Hope that the new year 2010 finds you even more Genki.
Sawada
Management knows these things happen. They are happy they weren't the ones in charge for this job. You solved the problems, that's your job. And it's a good one too! Congratulations and have a great New Year
Are you now back home to celebrate the New Year?
Always remember that nobody could do a perfect job but failures're just stepping stones to success.
Have a great New Year, and stay Genki.
Otosan & Okasan
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