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Old 09-11-2013, 02:14 PM   #362
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by fotze View Post
Maybe I am biased because I spent the 1st 5 years of my career working for the environment telling myself that at least I had job satisfaction because I was 'protecting the public'. I know a crappy, soul destroying job when I see one.
Are you still doing HSE work?

No matter what you are doing, you have to get excitement and some kind of personal satisfaction and self-development out of your work. I think the real soul-destroying jobs are the clerical/process/admin/invoicing jobs where you are not contributing your own creativity and knowledge to advance the business in some way but rather just working through stacks of repetitive paperwork, records, files, and numbers. There are plenty of those in the oilpatch. It wouldn't work without them.

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