In order to set up a list of libraries that you have access to, you must first login or sign up. Then set up a personal list of libraries from your profile page by clicking on your user name at the top right of any screen. The National Library may be able to supply you with a photocopy or electronic copy of all or part of this item, for a fee, depending on copyright restrictions. Separate different tags with a comma. To include a comma in your tag, surround the tag with double quotes. Please enable cookies in your browser to get the full Trove experience. Skip to content Skip to search.

Subscribe to the VICE newsletter.
User login
Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Finding libraries that hold this item You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway. WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. Don't have an account? Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript.
Account Options
Life on an oil rig, as I imagine it. Image via. On the surface, oil rigs come with a particular masculine vibe. Maybe it's the fact Bruce Willis and all his world-saving pals from Armageddon were rig workers, and the fact this is about the only reference point I've got. Or maybe there's truth to the notion that total isolation and dangerous, often filthy work appeals predominantly to men. To find out, I reached out to three women who'd worked on oil rigs around Australia. I wanted to ask them whether life as a female rig worker is as strange as I imagine it, and to get a sense of what it's like out there, on those mini floating worlds populated almost entirely by dudes who look like the guy above.
On land, I am usually the only chick out of 30 or so. Sometimes you would have one other girl on site, but almost never more than one. You should hear some of the jokes. Let me just say what I want to say! Get a bunch of blokes together and anything goes. Truth be told, however, that is not the whole picture.