By that logic there are tons of other careers that should involve very high salaries: long haul trucker, anything on a cruise ship, Antarctic researcher, statio

By that logic there are tons of other careers that should involve very high salaries: long haul trucker, anything on a cruise ship, Antarctic researcher, stationed on a military submarine, forest firefighter, commercial fisherman, etc etc etc. By and large oil platform gigs pay a lot because oil companies have an enormous amount of resources and no one wants to do the work because they're passionate or patriotic.