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: New Orleans Charter Schools Need to Respect Teachers' Experience, Students' Dignity John Thompson 2011

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: New Orleans Charter Schools Need to Respect Teachers' Experience, Students' Dignity John Thompson 2011

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.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 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.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

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.

Story Pick: GQ on Gulf's rigworkers 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.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

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.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

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.

Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

I used to come up summers, worked this field, roughnecking, sinking wells.

Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986

Their roughnecking was verging on anarchy; no one was safe in the streets after dark.

Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969