If you love to work with big fat bellied, bad mouthed, racist cowboys with cowboy boots and hard hats, this is your job.

If you do not mind working long hours, day and night, as long as drilling keeps on going, you will like this job.

If you do not mind staying away from your friends and family for several days, then it is your job

If you love working in the middle of a desert, on the top of a hill, in the middle of ocean, or in someone’s backyard (oil is found in those locations, you know!), then this is your job.

If you will like to work in a noisy ear blasting drilling rig, sleep in a mobile home next to the noise blasting rig, then it is your job.

If you do not mind driving flatbed pick up trucks on dirt uneven county roads for several hours to reach your work site, this is your job.  [Sometimes, there is no road!  You just follow the old tracks on barren land or make the tracks yourself so other follow your tracks later in the desert]

If you do not mind eating junk food for several days in a tin-shed restaurant in a rusty village 30 miles away from your work site, go for it!

If they make you work offshore, they will send you to helicopter safety training. You will be trained to escape from helicopter when it crashes in the ocean.  They will make you sit inside a model helicopter, drop it in a 20 feet deep swimming pool, and train you to open the helicopter door and swim yourself out of the helicopter.  If that does not scare you, then go for it!  (Hint:  Water depth offshore is more than 20 feet – that isn’t swimming pool!)

Not that I wanted to discourage you, but I will keep this job in the bottom of my preference.  I see you are trying to get H1.  If nothing else comes up, you should carefully consider this job.  I have seen few not-so-great people with some basic geology training (Not geology degree) from a 2-yr college working as contract mud loggers for oil companies.  They had their own pick up trucks, mobile homes, driving around looking for work. 

Good luck!