Roustabout, according to Forbes.com. I didn’t know what a roustabout was/did either.
Roustabouts are the workers who assemble and repair oil and gas field equipment. They do other unskilled work around rigs like cleaning up spilled oil, moving pipes to and from trucks and guiding cranes that move loads around decks.
It’s hard and dirty work, and in the labor hierarchy of oil rigs, roustabouts are a notch below roughnecks.
Don’t you just love the American economy? Never ceases to amaze me. Of course, there is always the other side of the coin. The disappearing jobs:
The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.–sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.
There are some surprises: Actors and tax examiners show up on the disappearing list, which is topped by entertainers who performed in places like amusement parks and arcades–or at least who used to.
I could name quite a few actors who I would like to see disappear, but that is a post for another day.