Roughnecking

During my 17 years since graduating from college, my experiences ranged from roughnecking in the oil fields and hitchhiking to legislative lobbying and writing an award-winning book. ❋ John Thompson (2011)

In the introductory paragraphs, everything feels hopeful and ominous all at once: "Backbreaking work, but it paid better than roughneck, and roughnecking wore a man out just as fast," Flynn writes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His childhood forays into the works of Mark Twain had led him to dream of telling stories rather than roughnecking it in the oil fields. ❋ Laura Bush (2010)

Pete had said he would trade up and buy a good used car for Vikki as soon as he got a job roughnecking on a platform out in the Gulf of Mexico. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

I used to come up summers, worked this field, roughnecking, sinking wells. ❋ Kellerman, Jonathan (1986)

Their roughnecking was verging on anarchy; no one was safe in the streets after dark. ❋ Silverberg, Robert (1969)

Technical Submission (Sexiness Hold) after he said "what is Silva gonna do when im roughnecking him eating his shots and still coming forward … .." ❋ Unknown (2010)

He followed in his father's footsteps and went into roughnecking and pipeline, intent on earning enough money to have his grandmother's cataracts removed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In addition to energy industry companies from around the world, at least 100 students from across the nation descended on Houston's NAPE Expo to learn about the opportunities they could find in the field, from accounting to roughnecking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Coming from an oilfield background, that's been pretty much my family, and my life until getting into graduate school has been oilfield work - roughnecking," said Kiser, who describes his work as the discussion between those for drilling and those against drilling. ❋ Unknown (2009)