oil rig worker
Offshore drilling employee
A person employed on an offshore or onshore drilling platform that extracts oil or natural gas.
The work is physically demanding and often dangerous, involving long shifts in remote locations: Oil rig workers typically spend weeks on the platform before rotating home.
Also called roughneck, though that term specifically refers to laborers who handle drilling equipment.
- roughneckOil platform laborer
- drillerOne who bores holes
- derrickMovable boom apparatus
- offshoreAway from land
- platformRaised flat structure
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- skilled tradeselectrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, welder
- oilfield jobsroughneck, roustabout, driller, motorman, petroleum engineer
- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- maritime jobssailor, captain, first mate, seaman, fisherman
- maritime travelerssailor, captain, passenger, crew, navigator
- traveling workersseasonal laborer, traveling salesman, traveling nurse, journeyman, roadie
oil rig workeroffice worker
Indoor professional employee
bank teller · accountant · secretary · receptionist · librarian
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