Sarah, you always pick topics that make people think. This one is one of your best!
I've always chosen jobs that I felt made a contribution to society.
Oil and Gas Construction, Nuclear Power Construction, Highway and Bridge Construction, all, I felt made a contribution.
The downside of those jobs:
Offshore rig construction was a 7 day a…
Sarah, you always pick topics that make people think. This one is one of your best!
I've always chosen jobs that I felt made a contribution to society.
Oil and Gas Construction, Nuclear Power Construction, Highway and Bridge Construction, all, I felt made a contribution.
The downside of those jobs:
Offshore rig construction was a 7 day a week process for contractors. The oil companies had 2 weeks on and 1 week off schedules but not the construction companies. Nuclear Power Construction was typically 6 to 7 days a week and 12 hour days. Highway and bridge construction was 6 to 7 days and long hours. The construction companies make their profits by meeting certain deadlines or milestones during the project. Over the years those milestones have become harder and harder to meet causing the construction companies to ride their personnel harder and harder. One result of this is the employes forsake going to Church on Sundays (Keeping Holy the Lord's Day). Family time suffers, Dad comes home after Dinner, misses kid's performances in sports, misses birthday parties, things important to a kid. And the kids see Dad missing Church on Sunday.
The large companies are run by accountants trying to outdo their predecessors and therefore make the milestones for construction companies all but imposssible to meet. The construction companies need to make a profit to pay their stockholders and so ride their employees harder.
Sarah, you always pick topics that make people think. This one is one of your best!
I've always chosen jobs that I felt made a contribution to society.
Oil and Gas Construction, Nuclear Power Construction, Highway and Bridge Construction, all, I felt made a contribution.
The downside of those jobs:
Offshore rig construction was a 7 day a week process for contractors. The oil companies had 2 weeks on and 1 week off schedules but not the construction companies. Nuclear Power Construction was typically 6 to 7 days a week and 12 hour days. Highway and bridge construction was 6 to 7 days and long hours. The construction companies make their profits by meeting certain deadlines or milestones during the project. Over the years those milestones have become harder and harder to meet causing the construction companies to ride their personnel harder and harder. One result of this is the employes forsake going to Church on Sundays (Keeping Holy the Lord's Day). Family time suffers, Dad comes home after Dinner, misses kid's performances in sports, misses birthday parties, things important to a kid. And the kids see Dad missing Church on Sunday.
The large companies are run by accountants trying to outdo their predecessors and therefore make the milestones for construction companies all but imposssible to meet. The construction companies need to make a profit to pay their stockholders and so ride their employees harder.
This is all caused by GREED!
Isn't greed one of the 7 deadly sins?