I am going to preface this with saying I am enjoying my job so far, and I just want to see if yall think it's worth it.
I am a fairly recent grad with a degree in Ocean engineering (civil engineering with waves and beaches). Straight out of school, I got a job as a field engineer for a dredging company, making around 80k/yr. After about a year at that company, I had a friend put me onto a job as an offshore Geotechnical engineer.
My hourly rate currently is 31.25 (65k @ 40hrs/week) with 2 weeks paid vacation. The reason I took the new job is because on my offshore rotation, we work an 84 hr week, which more than doubles the pay. The offshore rotations are 4-6 weeks depending on the vessel, and I work 12 hr shifts every day of the rotation. When I come back on shore we get 1 day of R&R for the first 3 weeks and 1 addition day for every week worked past 3 weeks (6 weeks = 4 days, 4 weeks = 2 days). After we take our R&R, we are hybrid in office 3 days and wfm 2 days.
At the quoted 40% of the year offshore from my offer letter, I should make around 93k but I am planning on volunteering to do closer to 60% offshore to be closer to 105k. I am just curious what yall think of this deal and if you would take it. I am 24 y/o and single so I've got nothing keeping my at home, and I figure I'd grind for a couple years to bank some cash.
Let me know what you think!