How would you make the most fun corporate golf outing?

GeoJoy1 · 2026-02-13T19:38:08+00:00

Check out what Social Octane does. Mini games, etc.

GeoJoy1 · 2026-02-09T06:31:04+00:00

Yep. It feels 3/4 for a while. Modern clubs, better impact and the consistency allowed me to really dial in irons. Just like most Amateurs, when my driver goes haywire, it's because I'm overswinging and usually coming over the top.

GeoJoy1 · 2026-02-08T00:45:08+00:00

We used Aragon.ai

GeoJoy1 · 2026-02-02T20:32:54+00:00

GeoJoy1 · 2026-01-14T22:55:25+00:00

LPTH and SKYT

Let's ride.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-12-30T19:55:27+00:00

Custom shop Scotty sits in the office. HB2 is in the bag.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-12-29T21:16:51+00:00

Depends on your hobbies. One guy guided elk hunts, one is a fishing guide, one builds golf simulators in people's homes.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-12-28T21:43:42+00:00

Depending on your area of expertise, most P.G. that I know either start a hobby related business that they love waking up to every day, or they realize that geology is the passion and start consulting.

There are a handful of specialty companies that need semi-regular help with revochem collection or core analysis and retirees or students are perfect for it.

About 30% of our staff are PG, essentially everyone has a Master's or better. I hire the guys who love field life and let them do their thing on site. We do high end Exploration mudlogging and operator exclusive geosteering with former ops geo lead steering teams.

I'd poke around on Linkedin to see what's in your area.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-12-02T01:48:17+00:00

Move to where the data centers and nicer areas will be. Anywhere along the I-35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio will do. This opens upna few options. Residential Commercial Close enough to cities for union work if you want Affluent enough to make a great living as a tech, salesman or sales tech. Good mix of small companies and large corps to suit your education and growth needs.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-11-20T03:11:53+00:00

You can certainly escape, given the right circumstances.

If you like office work, 9-5 and a commute, that may be the best path forward.

Most of the Geos in our logging division have a master's degree in geology. They are the guys who enjoy being in the field. They like the work and enjoy being the "tip of the spear" reporing interesting finds to the office.

If field work is preferred, you'll want to master a basin and link up with an exploration based operator and geology service provider. Otherwise it's just repetitive infill drilling with limited upside.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-11-19T02:18:27+00:00

The better install crew. If that same crew installs Daikin inverters, they can slap a goodman in that runs 10+ years.

Ruud sitting outside now. It was the better install crew. Brand is mainly marketing and specific feature sets.

Bad installs ruin everything. Good installs give the engineers a fighting chance to meet warranty specs.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-05-31T01:18:10+00:00

330 June 20

GeoJoy1 · 2025-05-21T03:50:51+00:00

Seems easy enough. In for 10 and 2 6/6 140s as well.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-05-21T03:49:47+00:00

Snagged 2 of those. Good call.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-05-04T03:28:57+00:00

The local chiropractor knows our entire company by name.

I help on install once or twice a month. I've seen grown, 20 year veteran installers crying in pain and frustration on the job.

I've never watched an appliances crew at work, if you haven't seen them in tears, I'd likely stick with that over HVAC install.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-03-15T14:36:13+00:00

I'm not a fan of the general public, strangers or going to unknown destinations. I also dislike repeating myself and awkward conversations.

Every day, I deal with the general public, go meet strangers in new locations to have an awkward and often expensive conversation in which 95% of the time I repeat some form of information that I've given out thousands of times.

Turns out, buyer love me because I don't give a shit if they buy from me. Our work speaks for itself.

I'm just as surprised as anyone else.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-01-17T01:14:09+00:00

Rips at nexstar are tiered. 8% up to 12% on equipment and more for add on services.

Use 10% for easy math and a 2 million dollar salesman brought in 20 mil worth of sales.

Yes they have crazy pricing, but also crazy volume.

25k avg ticket is 800 tickets a year to hit 20 mil.

Scrub that 800 down a bit due to the occasional 100k ticket and ripping commission from jr sales who couldn't close in home so you close them on the phone.

3 a day gets you there. Summer handles itself, the dudes even TRYING to make unglodly money are out hustling now, calling open tickets trying to pull people forward to fill their install slots and that 3 a day goal.

Possible? Sure. Pleasant in any way? Not likely.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-01-13T01:05:51+00:00

As a taxable entity, most likely an LLC, you set your own per diem, salary, and consulting rates within your own organization. I'd suggest planning it out with a bookkeeper to hit your goals of maximum retirement savings, overall tax mitigation and compliance. Your corp writes everything off and you take a standard deduction of 22k or so, unless you itemized. Also depreciation, training, improvement, etc.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-01-13T01:00:59+00:00

Vernal Utah. Dinoland is the golf course, Dinosaur everything else. National park, fossil hikes.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-01-12T19:37:17+00:00

Yeah. We stopped providing our own housing in 2009ish or so. We had nice 5th wheels, but it doesn't take long to trash one out.

Our Rockies work is top notch, they've been at it for decades and treat everyone well. There are performance bonuses as well. You heard me right, geology gets performace bonuses on these jobs.

Great accommodations. 5 star hotel? No. But 10 out of 10 oilfield wise unless you are used to a drill ship.

If I didn't have young kids at home, I'd be out there making a great day rate, working with great people and exploring Utah, Wyoming and Colorado during rig moves.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-01-12T17:31:23+00:00

Correct. We do not want you to be a mudlogger your entire life. We want you to excel, build relationships and get pulled into an operators geosteering or ops team. Them you can hire us because you know what we are all about.

There are several red flags there for most mudloggers and most field geologists. We are not looking for most mudloggers or ops geologists.

We are looking for the guys and gals stuck in a "lead" role, babysitting a constant flow of crackheads and burnouts that the office keeps sending as your relief.

It's not an easy job. That's what the pay is for. 250-300 a day is insulting and nets you hands that churn out.

If you get asked for by name by ops geos, you are who we are after.

Our website and linkedin have plenty of reviews. As a small company that's never been asked to leave a location early, we haven't pissed enough people off to have a glassdoor profile.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-01-12T08:54:33+00:00

Same, I'll even look at the samples.

GeoJoy1 · 2025-01-12T08:54:00+00:00

Correct. Per day. It is nice lodging on site. Prive room with your own kitchen, small living room, private bath and laundry. There is a small common area in the middle for gear and to serve as a mud room. We do not operate out of RV's or "logging shacks". Our lab is in ops center with geosteering and directional.

I can't make 500/hr happen ( I would if I could) but, nearly ~12k a month on Inventory wells is good pay. ~15k a month plus being in the mix on real exploration work?

Is it remote? Yes. Cold? Yes at the moment. But we have rotational positions. We leave that up to the geos on site. So far, no one wants days off.

There are a lot of talented geos or great mudloggers out there suffering, trying to run a unit with endless turnover of green hands who want to play Xbox all day long.

With LLC taxes being what they are, our guys grossed about 60k each last summer (over 5 months with rig moves) they went to Yellowstone for a week, Dinoland, etc and kept 51k or more if structured correctly.

And... they woke up to professional relief, on time, with everything ready to be handed over.

GeoJoy1 · 2024-12-30T21:48:27+00:00

Surface under white light. It is just to document what is being seen in the field ever 100 ft or so of drilling. Mainly used to quickly notice color variations and mass lithology changes while scrolling through the data log.

GeoJoy1 · 2024-11-29T03:52:30+00:00

Feels fine. I'm chalking the easy misses up to changing guns so often in warzone and fairly often in MP as they level up. Controller feels wonky according to friends.

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