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Best day I ever had on a job was a stuck valve in Port Arthur that took me 11 minutes
Got called out at 5am for a valve that would not close on a 30 inch line, went down, found a chunk of gasket jammed in the seat, popped it out, was back on the boat eating breakfast by 6:15, and the company man still wrote me a 4 hour minimum plus a $200 tip, which made me wonder why the easy ones never come up on days I need them most.
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schmidt.grant3d ago
That 4 hour minimum and tip combo is the dream right there, but I gotta push back on the idea that the easy ones never show up when you need them. In my experience the easy calls come at the worst times, like right when you finally sit down to eat or you're already 14 hours into a shift and just want your bunk. The real kicker is you never know it's gonna be easy until you're already out there, so every 5am call feels like it could be an all day mess. Sounds like you just got lucky that day and the valve decided to cooperate, which honestly is rarer than the hard jobs.
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