It beats flipping burgers.

“Reports to and receives assignments, instructions, and direction from the Foreman or General Foreman. Reads and interprets instructions and documentation and plans work activities. Operates company vehicles with capacity of up to 30 tons to move materials, tools, and equipment to and from work locations in support of construction and maintenance activities and/or deliver operating materials and supplies from one warehouse to another. Loads and unloads vehicles. Observes and follows all safety rules and procedures, including wearing required personal safety equipment. Performs other duties and activities as directed. Requires appropriate license. Typically requires 2 years of related experience. It should be understood that this position may be located in a hostile area and possibly in a combat or war zone. This could include the possibility of suffering harm at the hands of hostile forces or by friendly fire. It should be further understood that these dangers are inherent to work in a hostile environment.”
--Halliburton.com

Out of curiosity I went to the Halliburton website and poked around at some of the different ‘opportunities’ with the company for people like me qualified to drive big trucks. Yes this is stemming from my distain of Rockford, Illinios. How bad could Iraq be after delivering in Rockford. They are looking for people to drive tanker trucks of flammable liquids. Note the last three sentences. They would have pay me a truckload of money to strap myself into a vehicle carrying 10000 gallons of explosive fuel in a country where the pastime is kill the white guy. The plus side to this job is that if your truck does blow up, the 10000 gallons of fuel pretty much guarantee that you won’t feel a thing. Of course the down side to this job (other than dieing in a two hundred foot high fireball) is that if you ever came back to the states you couldn’t take pot shots out your window anymore, or have an RPG where the passanger seat should be.

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