[imelmo]

Lookin' for someone to train to work on lifeboats for offshore platforms. We'll train you on specifics of the lifeboats but mechanical ability is a MUST. Pay range is $13-$14 per hour to start with LOTS of overtime (paid as tima and a half after 40hours per week). Since you'd be the helper/trainee here in the beginning you 'd be going offshore a lot.

Jobs are all different legnths, different companies, and different tasks. Average job is probably 2-3 days. longest ones are usually about 3 weeks.

Our shop is located in Slidell, LA about 20 miles north of New Orleans.

We give regular raises, bonuses, health insurance, and a few other benfits. Small family company. Pretty well everyone gets along great. Relaxed atmosphere as long as you're doing what you're supposed to.

Boss is pretty cool too.

Anyone interested just shoot me a pm.

 

[UNBROKEN]

Double that pay and I'll do it. I'm looking for a change...

 

[Deputydog]

If the "boss" will throw in his truck :gun:

 

[QtrHorse]

Double that pay and I'll do it. I'm looking for a change...

How in the hell can you afford to build both motors in your truck making $28 an hour? Do you guys just put everything on plastic or what?

I would need triple that pay because I'm going to do a lot of vomiting if I have to go offshore (more than a few miles).

 

[Doodie]

I pay cash.

 

[Short Bus]

me too. I dont even have a credit card

 

[imelmo]

No other bills (or "liabilities") to speak of.

 

[imelmo]

Here's some more info about the job I've been pm'ing to people:


I think everyone here is pretty content. Close knit small business. We try and accomodate within reason when people need off and such. Pretty laid back. We also have paid holidays, vacation, etc...

We've been in business since May of '97 (I arrived in December of '98) so we're a pretty solid company.

Work's really not that hard usually. Hardest part of the job is sometimes you may get told the day before that you have to go out in the morning; just comes with being a service industry in The Gulf. Obviously, we try to give as much notice as possible though.

You'd have to live close by because we also do a lot of work at our shop.

The last person we hired that's been here a full year grossed a little over $45,000 his first year.

As a small business, there's not much in the way of actually moving up, not yet at least. I pretty much do everything. However, that doesn't mean pay increases stop at any particular point. Our highest paid mechanic makes about the same as me, sometimes a little more with the overtime.

The jobs always changing because we're small, so we need everyone to take part in doing a little bit of everything. One day you might be working an a boat, the next you might be sandblasting/painting, then you might be filing paperwork, ordering parts, or entering invoices. Always something different.

 

[UNBROKEN]

How in the hell can you afford to build both motors in your truck making $28 an hour? Do you guys just put everything on plastic or what?

I would need triple that pay because I'm going to do a lot of vomiting if I have to go offshore (more than a few miles).

I was just messing with Danny...I don't only make 28 bucks an hour.
I make a bit over 2 grand a week before taxes....and I pay cash for everything I have. I have zero credit cards.
Oh yea...good friends and good sponsors don't hurt either.

 

[THEDIESELMAN]

UNBROKEN what do you do.

 

[QtrHorse]

No other bills (or "liabilities") to speak of.

That's the only way to do it.

I pay cash.

^^^

I was just messing with Danny...I don't only make 28 bucks an hour.
I make a bit over 2 grand a week before taxes....and I pay cash for everything I have. I have zero credit cards.
Oh yea...good friends and good sponsors don't hurt either.

I thought I remembered you saying you made a tad more than that but was not sure. Yes, it does help to have good friends and sponsors

UNBROKEN what do you do.

I believe he used to be or still is a contractor.

 

[morepower02]

ya well I make a billion dollars a year. 28 bucks an hour is pretty good around here

 

[THEDIESELMAN]

I would love to make 28 dollars an hour.

 

[strokin_early_99]

I would be homeless at $28 an hour. Where I live it is too damn expensive to live with more than one income under $100K

 

[UNBROKEN]

UNBROKEN what do you do.

I'm a project manager for an industrial insulation company. I make a set rate an hour...how much I bring home depends on how much I work. SOme jobs are 40 hours a week...some are 70. The 70 hour jobs pay for the toys.
It doesn't hurt that I have a company truck and don't pay for fuel and most time I'm out of town living on per diem too.

 

[UNBROKEN]

I would be homeless at $28 an hour. Where I live it is too damn expensive to live with more than one income under $100K

That's the great thing about the gulf coast where Danny and I are from...20 bucks an hour will buy you a fairly decent life. I don't see making 100K a year as a big deal if it costs you all of it to live. If you made that money down here you would have to buy a farm to bury all your extra money on.

 

[THEDIESELMAN]

Yeah over here in Ca it sucks for people that are trying to buy a home for the firt time or just to have a house and a truck/car

 

[slowleak]

unbroken, where you from?

 

[UNBROKEN]

Right between Houston and Beaumont.

 

[slowleak]

ahh. its tough findin' some psd friends down here in new orleans. seems the closest guy around here that has any clue would be danny. talked to a cop last night who said his friend's 6leaker runs low 12's...i just laughed at him.