@amyperle You’ve said your GF would move; how does she feel about camp work with you away 50% of the time? Oil sands camp work can be hard on relationships, my husband worked non O/G shift work for 10 years. We had many (many) discussions over the years about whether or not it was still working for us. After about 10 years it stopped working for a variety of reasons so he got a local job in industry. We made it work, it wasn’t always easy but we have a strong relationship, are both very loyal, have no kids, and felt it was a good way to get ahead financially.
And it was. Absolutely. But most of his coworkers relationships fell apart. His previous boss had been married 4 times.
7 in and 7 out should be a breeze though. Hubby often did 14-28 out with 7 at home. That sucks. The dollars make sense for a camp job, and a week off a time every other week would be amazing. But talk to your GF about the reality of missing 50% of everything; birthdays, anniversaries, weekends, camping trips, family dinners, cousins wedding, whatever. You will not be there half of them. It’s workable, we just made sure to celebrate ‘whatever’ on a day that worked, but he was almost always gone for the actual day of. Not everyone will tolerate that, and resentment can build.
All that said, it was 100% the right decision for us to have made for that 10 years.
Good luck!
ETA: $22 an hour is sh*t pay for someone with a science/technical education. I wouldn’t take that either way.
