Stephen wrote:

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

So that's how drillers count? :)


> 
> How can you say that the driller's or even the pusher's job is not physical?

Perhaps it is not AS 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 But then I may be very out of date.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.

Shay probably over-generalized there.


> 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.

I guess we all agree on that. Though its been so long since I've been 
physically fit I can't really remember anymore.  I really have to get 
serious though.  Cab driving is so bad for one's fitness that it doesn't 
take much to push things over the edge.  Some anxiety, a little bingeing 
and it's a big mess.

-jim

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