toolbox scale

The Toolbox scale is meant to best represent the jobs most suitable for societal misfits within Canadian industry. Some jobs are simply meant for the more unconventional types of personality. While these people in many cases cannot hold down more normal jobs in society, in many cases they thrive in their ideal occupation. The list is not all inclusive, and only encompasses positions where observation based data has been collected.

Toolbox Scale in ascending order, with a higher level of misfit at the top.
1- Roofers and Basement Cribbers
2- Asphalt Crew, Road Crew, Welders
3- Pipeliners, Oilfield Camp Staff
4- Tree Planters, Drillers
5- Seismic Workers, Well Completions Crews, Wireline crews
6- Vacuum Truck & Picker Operators, Earthworks & Heavy Equipment Operators
7- Hazardous Waste and Sanitation Workers, Painters, Plumbers & HVac Workers
8- Pipefitters, Boilermakers, Iron Workers
9- Electricians, Land Surveyors, Carpenters, Warehouse Personnel (incl Shipper-Receivers)

10- Truckers, Bus Drivers, Industrial Health & Safety Workers

Those seismic workers are weird, but they rank higher than tree planters on the Toolbox Scale.

seismic acquisition

A discipline tasked with the acquiring subsurface data for petroleum geoscientists. Generally comprised of odd people and social misfits, seismic acquisition types make far more money than what they are worth, and the baseline quality of typical seismic worker effort renders the decisions made with this data suspect. On the Toolbox Scale, seismic acquisition workers rank just above Tree Planters and below Vacuum Truck drivers.

Sorry you lost your job cleaning bathrooms, you can always try getting a seismic acquisition job.

prospectivity

A term that’s made up by people who look at rocks, who are in denial that the earth is only 7000 years old.

Prospectivity has allowed us to change our plans at the last minute, so go fuck yourself!!