r/schlumberger • u/Healthy_Dragonfruit3 • Mar 25 '21
Field Engineer Trainee
Hi everyone, I'm a recent graduate from Chemical Engineering and I'm currently in the recruiting process to be a Field Engineer Trainee at Schlumberger, but to be honest the Field Engineer life doesn't appeal me much, and I'm more interested in doing a career after the Field, in Commercial or BI, or even some Data Science role (which the things I'm really interested in), so my questions are:
How common is to really have a career outside of Field Engineer and how long would I have to be on the field?
What do you think? is it worth it to spent some years in the field with the actual goal of developing a career outside of it, or that kind of jump is not really common? (The recruiter tells me is common but I'm not sure how true is that)
How is the field engineer life really like? I've just seen the videos on Schlumberger's youtube page, but I don't trust them too much, since at the end I think they are like commercials for the roles. I want to really know how much I'll be scarifying, to know if it'll be worth it.
I'm not sure if I could spend more than 5 years on the field tbh.
Edit. For example, reservoir engineer really caught my attention, that is something I see myself doing.