FINALLY!!!!!

Patience, or lack thereof, finally worked! I showed up one morning for a safety meeting and afterwards my boss called me into his office. There were 2 of them in there. My first thought, like most people would expect was that I was going to get a pay raise! Ha! Just kidding. I was expecting them to let me go, of course. Well.

That was a big old nope. They asked why I moved to Wyoming. I told them "I came here to 1) spend time with my family 2) get the humongous debt off my back 3) gain experience". That won them over... no, seriously... we talked for about 30 minutes and then they asked if I'd be willing to work overnights to do gate-watch. We had 2 contracts with 2 companies and no one was willing to work overnight to gate-watch. Now, I didn't know what that entailed but it sure did sound too good to be true.

They told me this, "You will take a truck, sign, clipboard and sign-in sheet to the location. Once there, take and set the sign up, make sure your lights are on, get in the truck and wait. Make sure you bring something to do until you get relieved either by day crew or my a company man." I thought it was a joke or a trap or something. They informed me that I would still get paid the same, just I would get consistent hours since the contracts would through the end of the year.

I went home and told everybody. No one believed me at first. I went to sleep for a bit and got ready to try this whole "gate-watch" thing out. Couldn't hurt, right? Well, lo and behold it was a godsend.

This was when things really started taking off! I put in consecutive 80+ hour weeks and was finally making some money to put away. After this point, around May or so, I never made less than $1,800 a check. Matter of fact, a majority of the time, I was making $2,300/check this was every 2 weeks.

Things were finally SOLID!