I wanted to start this off with saying how much I appreciate all of our followers out there and share a few things that have been with me my entire career as well as a few pictures to show ya’ll I wasn’t always a desk jockey!
From the beginning of my career the oilfield wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. At the time I grabbed an opportunity to get some benefits for my family but it turned into a lifetime of family, friends, places and adventures. Throughout all of those years there has been heartaches, trials, tribulations, good times, a hell of a lot of trouble but when you get into this line of business its not short term, if you are lucky enough to be able to make the first couple of years then its in your blood.
Along the way you grow up and learn how people live in other parts of the world outside your hometown city limits, you see the world in a way that you never would have sitting on your front porch back at the house. If you didn’t learn respect growing up, you damn well learned it here, if you didn’t have friends growing up, then you will get them here, if you never learned how to be humble, then this business will remind you of how humble you need to be everyday that you are breathing.
Be kind, be courteous, help those new guys, be tough when you need to be, but overall remember where you came from because you ain’t but a step away from that door hitting you in the ass. Look around where you are and thank the guys you are working with for looking out for you or when you look in the mirror in the mornings remind yourself why you do what you do, yeah its for the money but remember, its a lifetime of adventure that you would have never dreamed of having as a child.
Raise your glass to your accomplishments but never forget your failures when you are back on that front porch having a cold one or rocking those grandkids to sleep.
Greg
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