My life has been hectic and very tiring lately, my job now is to commission all equipments and its system safely and up to its design point. Sometimes 25% more than its original design for safety reasons. Its different from before,and the work conditions is tooo remote.
Let me tell you about my typical work day. My day starts at 6am, attend the toolbox meeting,where all workers and management gathers and update ourselves with the happenings and issue arises. It also the time the workers express their views and comments to us. Then once finish, the worker's supervisors will go up to the platform and get their job approved by the Offshore Installation Manager (OIM). The OiM has the autonomous power on the platform whether to approve or not to approve the work.
Round about 9ish, the work gets approved, the workers go back to the canteen and have their morning tea break. while waiting for their job to get approved, the rest will just chill or prepare their work prior to approval. Then, half hour after 9am, workers will go back to their work location and start work till noon. 15mins before noon,they will stop work and do some house keeping before goes back to the canteen for an-hour's lunch break. Then after lunch break, work resumed till 3pm for another tea break and continued work till 6pm.
Like usual,15mins before breaktime,workers stopped work for some clearing and headed back for lunch. The workers will have their dinner and would retire for the day.
Well, for me,my day still occupied with 7pm progress meeting for an hour and soon after the meeting, I would have to prepare the job to be done tomorrow. Its like chreographing the work done tomorrow to the detail and to calculate the amount of people that will need to work for me for that job.
Check my emails and headed back to my quarters for shower and getting ready to sleep.
That's the glamour side of my job, and the worst thing that could risk me is my safety while working on platform. High pressures, electric shocks, falling objects is just to name a few the danger I faced daily. However, those dangers really made me more appreciate the safety measures that you need to follow. And do I enjoyed my job? The and answer is, YES! I love my job and it makes me more careful and learned about stuff that you never thought off before
So that's my typical day of work for me offshore, and my 2 weeks off is not really a "holiday" per-say, but its the time for me to rest from my long 2 weeks of work offshore.
Let me end by saying this, never take things for granted,value life and also remember about the loves ones waiting at home for you return.
Take care and see you soon ;)
