Job requirements....

Roustabout - need to be able to use a high pressure cleaner and a broom. Needs to be versatile as can be used as everyone's asisstant.

Roughneck - needs to understand the screaming and shouting from the drillers and toolpushers.
Aspirations to become a driller will not be swayed by education,only by how much you suck up to the required personnel.
Tattoos are optional.
Non-drinkers need not apply.

Derrickman - needs to like heights and playing with mud, but not both at the same time....although in case of blowouts this maybe a necessity.

Assistant driller - needs to be able to cover up any mistakes made by the driller, if not, must be willing to take the blame!
Fills out IADC report for toolpusher and if he can use joined up writing, will never get promotion.

Driller - must have ambitions to become night toolpusher but be willing to wait until night toolpusher has been promoted after Senior toolpusher is run off.

Senior toolpusher - must have drilled the deepest hole...or at least talk about it.
Must have learned the art of drilling management....shout loud and threaten to punch anyone who does not listen.
Not necessary to have education, but must have to pass Well control exam every two years, or be clever enough to get someone else to take the exam for you.
The ability to talk about, but not necessary to understand the terms, underbalanced drilling and differentially stuck.
Alcohol abuse not necessary but will help.
The saying ' he was my driller' and ' we roughnecked together' should be used often especially on a date with a futuer girlfriend.

Company Man - must be able to sleep for a living, but more importantly wake up from long sleep and make major decisions like.... 'I need to call town' or ' I will shut the rig down if the coffee pot is broken'