Camp jobs
Here's some advice for anyone wanting a camp job from me,anyone else please share your experiences with camp life as I allways find it interesting.
If you want to work in a remote camp you can allways apply to heli drilling outfits like Boart Longyear,they do remote core drilling for gold and other minerals and diamonds all over the world,thats remote though and mostly fly in only and you will be crapping in a pail but the food is usually awesome and flights paid to and from the site and you will see parts of Canada not many else will see.
Hospitals can be 5000 miles away though and a ground blizzard can have you stuck in camp for weeks so you cant have an attitude and the peeps your with depend on you as you them for survival.
These are generally 20 to 50 guys depending on how many drills they have drilling.
The small camps tend to be more friendly and folks actually sit and chat with each other.
The last camp I was at was at Cold lake weapons range,about 400 folks to each camp,very cold and impersonal,you had to flash a facial recognition security card just to get into the kitchen and get a meal but I had my own shack so I only went there for take out.
The selection there was also awesome and it was like walking through a deli,my shack there had 2 televisions and dvd players,nice couch,huge desk,basically an oil patch 60 foot trailer divided in 2.
Cool place to work,f15's flying over your head all the time,scaring the **** out of me.
Back to the remote camps,The cook that I have worked on and off in the Arctic the last 4 years with is kinda famous,in the book the Barrenlands(about the peeps prospecting for Canada's first diamond mines)she is the cook mentioned,she is well known all over the arctic and can speak many dialects of Inuktitut and lives in Saskatchewan when not in camp.
She is one of my best friends and also wont work in a camp after it hits 45 peeps like me so my point is the small camps can be very enjoyable where as the big ones can just leave you wanting to go home.
Small camps everyone chips in,a chopperload of groceries comes in and everyone starts packing in boxes.
If the Arctic exploration camp I managed last year gets a budget from the investors in Vancouver I'll be back at discovery camp north of Rankin inlet in a few weeks.There's still 6 feet of ice on the lake there.
