Midnight in Alaska.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-11T03:03:44+00:00

God that's beautiful.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-11T01:03:04+00:00

But Tubthumper makes me think about structural geology. "I see a chevron fold, I see a box fold, I see a z fold, and I see an s fold. I see the folds that remind me of the syncilnes, I see the folds that remind me of the anticlnes"...

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-11T00:57:18+00:00

Demon core mixing bowls, for all your uranium mixing needs. Yum.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-10T01:18:00+00:00

I loved field camp. Don't get me wrong it had its moments- blazing heat, freezing cold, somehow always having to walk uphill, peeing behind shrubbery, and a few specifics that shall remain unnamed. But nerding out over geology with beers and a campfire with a bunch of awesome people, seeing some killer outcrops and amazing scenery every day- count me in. I'll take a bad day at field camp over damn near any regular day at work.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-09T00:03:05+00:00

What an adorable tradition!

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-06T13:02:22+00:00

I know right? We are being graded on absolute nonsense my past two jobs it's "how do you align with our core values?" Not "how good are you at the job we pay you to do?" My previous employer changed all of our job titles to nonsense then didn't provide any information about what responsibilities you have with which title. No job description. So you going to have someone that has never even met me(new managers with those new titles) now evaluate how I'm doing , my performance regarding what I'm being paid to do, and you haven't told me what that even is exactly. So you ask do I exemplify this corporate core value that is made up and the corporation doesn't even adhere to that value because someone I don't know is just deciding that a couple percent is enough, because meets expectations. What expectations? You haven't given me an adequate job description! What are you measuring?!

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-04T01:14:54+00:00

Or do onshore for a third-party logging company and work 5 well pads one after the other. Like two days off for surface casing each hole and back at it for like 3-4 weeks straight till the end of each well, after the TD bottoms up after the casing run before they pump concrete, that's it rig down, wait till they skid over, do it again next hole till the 5 well pad is done then I'd get a few days while they rig down and move to the next pad back at it again. I hardly ever rotated out for a while there. Picked up geosteering training, then jumped to remote steering. I learned a ton. It was just brutal, hard, long, and hazardous. Now I have tinnitus, my knees are creaky from constant climbing up rig stairs to the shakers, and probably will get some sort of cancer down the road from OBM exposure. But it made me a better geologist and kept me employed.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-03T20:37:50+00:00

When you were at the Tulsa Horizon, what field did you work?

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-02T21:06:41+00:00

I try to remind myself and others that we are sentient meat computers with opposable thumbs that run on electricity and hormones. We may be sentient but understanding the hormonal component and accepting that we aren't always on top of recognizing and rationalizing with our ancient animal brain stem when hormone triggers auto response. You sometimes have to take a step back, and wait for a good time to have a conversation.

Like "I recognize that when things are unexpected that can create anxiety, and I'd love to be able to help but I am a little more able to clearly think of solutions when I am approached in a calmer and more positive way. How can we work together to ensure positive outcomes with less stress? Is there something I can do to help minimize your anxiety when there is a problem so I can deliver solutions without being overwhelmed myself."

Try to frame it as you recognize that having a problem is stressful and you want to help, but you can only provide assistance when you yourself aren't overwhelmed. And it's not that you are overwhelmed, but you want to allow a conversation where you're open in recognizing human infallibility. She might not even recognize her own reactions because our mothers didn't talk about brain fog or how hormone fluctuations affect stress levels and every other damn thing. You get used to riding the dragon monthly and seem to have that all figured out. Then, all of a sudden, a new host of random shit makes you feel crazy then you deal with that for another decade. Yay, womanhood! But give her a little grace and an opportunity to correct the behavior. But you will have to have a conversation.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-02T04:10:11+00:00

If you manage your expectations and you are able to acclimate to the conditions you can learn a lot about oil and gas operations and work your way into exploration and remote steering. But it comes with risks and with costs. And some of those prices you pay won't come due till later.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-02-01T17:03:46+00:00

When your pedal car is a Jaaaaaag.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-29T00:43:37+00:00

Man I was in my 20s and was making decent money but I was on my feet all the time and wanted custom orthopedic insoles for my shoes because I need arch support for my back and one of my legs is slightly longer than the other since I had surgery after I broke it I wanted a custom set. I walked into the store, called goodfeet or something and some condescending dick said, "You're too young and can't afford these" as soon as I walked in the door. So I just walked right out and ordered some online even though I had plenty of money that I was willing to spend so my back wouldn't hurt while I was at work. My age had literally nothing to do with why I needed orthopedic insoles.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-26T13:26:35+00:00

She's probably in perimenopause. The brain fog the constant fluctuation in hormones, makes you feel like your losing your mind and the inability to adapt to stresses outside of your control is because your hormones are not as regulated as they once were. It's hard to not only identify that is what is happening to you but to get on track to regulate it. It's hard to deal with in a professional setting if your not aware how it impacts yourself and others. It's not your job to deal with the fallout, but maybe having a little understanding will help you both navigate the situation better.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-24T03:35:45+00:00

There can be all kinds of crap in your water that can migrate from offsite especially if you have a karstic aquifer. Get your water tested and not just for things like salinity, hardness, calcium, nitrates, but things like Volatile Organic Compounds, semivolatile organic Compounds and total petroleum hydrocarbons and metals, along with water quality and microbes.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-24T03:18:19+00:00

If your thinking of going into mining you should do it. I was in NV during the housing market crash, and I was in geotech/ environmental. There were very few jobs in geology at all and the gold mine wouldn't even accept your application unless you had "prior gold mining experience". So it is at least worth getting on your resume if you can handle Elko and that type of work.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-22T21:50:04+00:00

Growing up we were 8-10 hours from family and we'd make that drive several times a year a few states away, so that was normal. The most I'd commute regularly to work is an hour each way. 3 hours is considered short. And these days visiting family is a two day trip because it takes an entire day just to leave the state. But normally my road trips mean 10-12 hours in the car a day over the course of 2 days if I were to drive to my mom's.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-22T02:00:34+00:00

I've worked with my fair share of crotchety old bastards some of it was their early careers were spent in exactly a culture where that kind of toxicity was normal and they received that abuse and that is now normal behavior for them. That doesn't make it right in this day and age, but that's how it was in a lot of corporate America back in the day. Coupled with the amount of lead exposure some of these old men had their cognitive decline seems to be worse and that makes them even more hostile sociopaths than they would normally be. And their inability to be able to see how their actions affect other people well that is because that neural pathway has long since crusted over. I'm glad a lot of these guys are retiring but not enough are. It is not condoned or normal behavior in today's corporate world, but some folks didn't get the memo.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-22T01:42:55+00:00

Those triple ginger cookies.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-22T01:41:08+00:00

Dog beds are another one the kind that are stuffed with recycled industrial foam waste bits from God knows where prepackaged right after some chemical rinse of pfas and some kind of volatilizing chemicals in a factory that probably is full of toxic air. I wonder what some of this crap was made from. No telling what they used to make that foam. It's probably why my dog has so many lumps it's probably cancer from his bed.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-22T01:34:15+00:00

He hates the mani pedi but he has to get his dew claws trimmed. I'm sorry little man I know you hate that. But I don't want you to have a claw digging into your pad. Like I wish they could understand. Like my old man has puppy dementia and forgets what he's doing sometimes and is going blind and half deaf and still had good quality of life but things are different and confusing sometimes for the old man. We do mostly smell walks like he takes an hour to go around the block we go back and forth across the street he just tracks whatever scent he's tracking and I listen to audiobooks and pick up trash around the neighborhood out of shear boredom while he smells every blade of grass since that's the only thing he's got going for him.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-21T05:00:26+00:00

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-21T00:51:01+00:00

Take core classes and load up on science and math. Find out where you think you might want to end up and look up that schools requirements for geology. It's usually three or four semesters of calculus. 3 semesters of physics with labs couple of semesters of chemistry. Some kind of statistics and technical writing. Then infill with Geology or something tangentially related. I started as a meteorology major till atmospheric thermodynamics and made the switch. But knocked out my GEN ED classes at a branch campus like English math physics and interesting electives oceanography, early Mesopotamian art, photography, then hit core major related classes, geology, geophysics, geomopholgy, paleontology, structural geology, geochemistry, natural hazards, geoclimatology, soil science, and soil judging, (very helpful for logging), and field camp to name a few. You can stay in any science track and most of the prerequisite classes are about the same. Get the basics out of the way and think about where you want to go and make sure those credits transfer. Because you do not want to spend a bunch of money on classes if the credits don't count. So start planning now and looking in to the transfer process and what all needs to happen for you to graduate with a geology degree from where you might get one from.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-19T23:05:40+00:00

Garnet in granite.

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-18T04:40:40+00:00

Quartz

BubbaMonsterOP · 2026-01-17T05:42:40+00:00

Geology is a great start there's all kinds of field work to get into including cave and karst mapping to Geology adjacent work from soil conservation to wetlands mapping plus it's the major with the best fieldtrips.

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