Suddenly swamped

[Skelhorn]

Evening everyone!

Well the story goes....I have been quiet the last 6 months at work....then all of a sudden calls left right and centre needing my assistance.
I work for a consultant firm as an environmental scientist....So there is sometimes work, sometimes there isn't. I have a full time job so doesn't bother me if there is nothing to do I still get paid.

I am currently out the Roma, Injune, Carnarvon/All the way to Biloela way doing some gas works and got a call from a contact in another office the other day saying that they have put me down for their key Groundwater Scientist in NSW in the coming weeks...Haha.

I mean I have been dead quiet the last 6 months. Stuck in the office only doing the occasional local job. Now I have been working 11 days straight. Get home Saturday night, drive to bundy Monday night, do 2 days working with soil there...come back, complete my venomous snake handling course (yessssssss), then wait for the calls for work in WA and in Gunadah (think thats how you spell it?). I suppose I can't complain, not only do the trips away give excellent career development however I am fortunate enough to receive the benefits of overtime!

By the looks of it the next year of my life will be a mixture of here there and everywhere...


Anyone else has similar work schedules? Nothing then all of a sudden your required everywhere?

 

[Sleazy.P.Martini]

Being in the army I know all about that. Nothing, nothing, nothing bam 8 months in the desert.

 

[saratoga]

Congratulations on the new job, but being appointed a "groundwater scientist" in a NSW gas mining company may well be a poisoned chalice given the ongoing controversy over fracking

I really don't know much about this but in an area I recently visited in Germany they banned fracking years ago because of damage to the water table.

Good luck anyhow!

 

[PMyers]

I really don't know much about this but in an area I recently visited in Germany they banned fracking years ago because of damage to the water table.

Which begs the question; "What's the fracking point?"

Not really... I'm just bored at work...

 

[Radar]

Congratulations on the new job, but being appointed a "groundwater scientist" in a NSW gas mining company may well be a poisoned chalice given the ongoing controversy over fracking

I really don't know much about this but in an area I recently visited in Germany they banned fracking years ago because of damage to the water table.

Good luck anyhow!

Not only in this specific situation, you have to watch your back working in this field with any/all employment with development companies. It's prudent to remember that you (and me) are only there because it is necessary, not because we're wanted. There's been more than one enviro set up as a fall-guy by companies when the proverbial hits the fan. Cover your backside.

 

[jairusthevirus21]

Yes mate Im exactly in the 'same boat' as you... away for anything between 2-4 weeks in the field doing fauna management work for the gas and oil industry and then nothing. Luckily im self employed as a stonemason in Adelaide when things are slow....

 

[Skinnerguy]

Well yeah...

Sometimes in my profession it's dead quiet... But then the excitement builds and things get serious at "Do you want fries with that?"

 

[Shaggz]

It's strange how it works, I have been struggling to get by lately on 32 hours a fortnight and then suddenly I have already done 60 hours this week and still have the weekend to go. Hopefully this lasts long enough to catch up on some living expenses and then spend some more cash on Herps

 

[Skelhorn]

Hahaha yeah guys I am hoping it keeps up to..

The company I am with doesn't put forward their people in that sense but can understand where you are coming from with letting an "employee" take the down fall.
Groundwater Scientist" in my terms of work down south involves taking baseline soil and water samples of key locations. I take my directions from above and have no "decision" making of my own, there for eliminating any risk.

I am loving the hours tho. Managed to clock up 96 hours in 8 days! So now I am enjoying my Sunday cooking a roast and drinking beer

 

[Angil]

Good to hear you now have plenty of work.

My partner is sort of in the same boat, except he hasn't had the luck to have much if any down time. He's been working away for sometimes a month at a time and because things are so busy sometimes he will get 4 or 5the days at home, but last month he came home for 20hrs between jobs

 

[Skelhorn]

Good to hear you now have plenty of work.

My partner is sort of in the same boat, except he hasn't had the luck to have much if any down time. He's been working away for sometimes a month at a time and because things are so busy sometimes he will get 4 or 5the days at home, but last month he came home for 20hrs between jobs

Yeah I couldn't do that, I miss my family too much. As it is I am in Bundy this time tomorrow morning but eventually it will die back down for me, it always does