Profile For ChickenPlucker

Depends if I'm doing local shift work or long hauls. My level of courtesy tends to shift depending on my timelines.

I think it depends more on the student and good luck. Your question is 'do I need classroom time, can't I learn this when I go 1-on-1 with my trainer', well yes and no. Yes, if you are a proactive guy and love to ask questions and you can absorb the knowledge thrown at you while multi-tasking then I think you can ditch the classroom portion. Not everybody is like this though and people of diverse intelligence(using tact here) learn at varied paces. At the end of the day, you can be Albert Einstein, but if your trainer insists on sleeping all day and using you as a low-paid team driver, then you are SOL as learning goes. Just like as in life, you never know what you are going to get, there are good ones, not-so-good ones, and horrible ones. Better to be safe than sorry.

Let me help you out, I've been in the oilfield since 2005.

Sand is feast or famine

Cement is feast or famine

If you get hired on to wireline you'll make 100k a year for young man slave work, I spent 4 years in the infantry and WL was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Flowback is hard to get into, need to know someone

I work in crude oil and that's what I would suggest. Go on down to Dilley, TX and get hired on with a crappy starter company like Xcaliber Logistics. Forget the idea that you need oilfield experience, they only care that you have 2 years of driving CDL for insurance premiums, that's it.

Oh and ignore that whole roughnecks make 80k crap, some of them only make 50k but on the upside you only work 6 months out of the year. To work in oil, in my opinion, you gotta hustle hard. I work for outlaw outfits that allow me to make good money on the regular, but companies like them won't take any Tom or Larry right off the street. I would avoid any company that doesn't sound English, except Dupree. You could also try Pilot. There's so much stability in crude it is a joke to do anything else. I know OTR is what floods the boards but I don't mind giving some oilfield advice.

Do not go to any school or pay any money for something a company can provide you and pay you.