On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:28:22 -0500, Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:

>
>The two go hand in hand, IMO. Despite the stress, danger, and long 
>hours, I have never met a depressed roughneck. Almost every driller (a 
>non-physical job) I have met has been depressed. I believe there's 
>medicine in physical activity.

Hi Shay,
How many roughnecks can count to ten on their fingers? :)

How can you say that the driller's or even the pusher's job is not physical?
When compared to onshore jobs. Seriously, unless you are on a modern rig with
push button controls for the iron roughneck the driller's job involved a lot of
strain and repetitive movement. But then I may be very out of date. I've met
drillers who were not depressed only mad and very often bad.
I think that it is easier to be mentally fit when you are physically fit. Since
I stopped working on the tools I've found that it is getting easier to slip into
bad habits.

Regards
	Stephen

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