PEPTEC

I've finished my first week of wireline technical school called PEPTEC. It stands for People and Technology. I've been hearing that Schlumberger loves to use acronyms. No kidding! Everything is abbreviated here. It will take some time to actually know what all these mean. I am slowly catching on...

PEPTEC has been totally different from my last 2 weeks of training, which ended last Sunday. Everyone in my training class left except for the wireline people. Saying bye to all my friends in other segments was sad but also exciting because most of them were off to their locations to start their life on the rig! And good thing I like to keep in touch with people as much as I can.

It reminds me of college but a little more intense because there is so much material in a short amount of time and then the frequent tests that I must pass to stay in school! I'm not the world's best test taker so I will admit it gets me nervous every time. But then again I tend to worry a lot more than I need to (note to self: please work on that!!!)

Wireline school will have me here until the first week of October- I will be living in Jenks, OK until then! Btw I learned last night it's pronounced "jinx" and not like how it's spelled. Picking up bits of Oklahoma! Awesome.

Sundays have been my only free days of the week these past few weeks. But I think that's actually going to change because we'll be following another schedule that depends on our instructor, who by the way is amazing! He is funny but also serious when he needs to be. Learning about wireline tools and techniques are really interesting and I love the hands-on aspect. Everything moves really fast so I've been focused on absorbing all the information being given to me!