[ SECRET POST #2636 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2636 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[diet_poison]

So what do you do?

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

I work for a petro company.

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

....I honestly wouldn't worry. There is zero overlap between the teenagers on Tumblr you have been reading the "tribulations" of, and a fully adult drill/deckhand on an FSPO/offshore rig. Plus 99% of them are good ol' boys on one hand, and fairly heavily psychologically screened for the ability to function in a high-stress, high-stakes, isolated environment, on the other hand.

Support staff, maaaaybe there might be issues, but the rate of pay is such that anyone unable/unwilling to take care of their issues themselves, will either wash out of their probation period and/or will voluntarily self-select out of the job in the first place.

Have you been at the job long?

Re: Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 18 months into my current position at this company, and from what my friends from uni (now also working petro) tell me, that's what it's like over there in the US. They have it very good on American rigs, including work rotations that let you go back to the mainland for weeks at a time after pulling a long duty.

Where I am, though... well, the money's still good -- if you're an engineer. Crew and support staff, not so much, and you'd be surprised how young they recruit them here. I can tell you right now that psychological screening below toolpusher level is pretty much perfunctory. It's a young industry in a country that doesn't have the best record for occupational safety to begin with.

Tumblr is what really alerted me to the prevalence of the condition, but I don't believe that the only people who have it are teenagers on Tumblr. And as people in this thread have repeatedly insist, it's often hard to tell at a glance.