How can I get a job like Hydropro?

Question

Getting Laid

What does it take to be a pipeliner

Well 1st it’s no place to be for a whiner

The majority of workers are vulgar and crude

The others just less but still quite rude

Locked on a barge free room and boredom

The weak are culled fast as this is not for them

Working outside no matter the weather

40 plus men all forced together

They range in age knowledge and classes

Some are free wheeling others true asses

From top to bottom egos and pride

Once from the dock it’s all put aside

Twenty-four seven they labor and toil

So others can have their gas and oil

Always questioning what they get paid

Bosses’ only caring how much pipe was laid

Their every move someone is dissecting

Wheels walking around always inspecting

From riggers on deck up to the foreman

The supers’ keen eye ready to score them

From the tower they labor to keep on track

Twelve in the chair offered no slack

The surveyor charged with the daunting mission

To assure at all times that they’re in position

After the pipe has finally been laid

The crew must clean up the mess they’ve made

Once they are through then come the divers

Their final task to tie in the risers

Just a job to some others a choice

Driven by the dollars and their inner voice

Although out at sea surely not a vacation

One job completed now to the next location

©rad092303

Answer 1

Getting laid while getting paid

dont you think a little staid?

Oh, you mean laying pipe?

I guess that makes you

a pipe layer!  s**y, no!

Great meter on this, and a great story.  Go to the head of the class, for you a wheel now!

Answer 2

I could rig shiit, back in the day...

Answer 3

I'll never look at a pipe in the same way again.Well done, not easy work.They should be well paid.Great poem.

Answer 4

You should send this to the "Dirty Jobs" TV show.

I'd have to say that this is one of my favorites from you. The longer meters worked out well for this piece.

Answer 5

You have my admiration...a rough job, even on land...Throw in seasickness...I'll stay with the bedpan trade!

Answer 6

Imagine... I read poetry and get educated simultaneously. You managed to paint a nice visual of your vocation, and even made it rhyme. You are a man of many talents. Well done Master of H2O.

Answer 7

I sang it to the tune of "Working Class Hero", and it — almost — worked! Great rhythm anyway.  

Answer 8

About as bad as working in a rubber factory, or plastics.

Much better than being a programmer of molding machines.

Answer 9

All of that, and you still can write poems and write them well.

Hydropro..

today you are my Hero!

You make me think outside of the box in that area formed by the circle.

Answer 10

Thank you for this information on a 24/7 type of job - very interesting ♥

Answer 11

Great poem, Kudos. Your words paint a broad picture.

Answer 12

I am that surveyor!