joost
Pelican
They’re closing the entire shop. I can either get a severance package + unemployment or transfer to Texas.
What are the job options in Texas? Is there any good option for someone without experience?
They’re closing the entire shop. I can either get a severance package + unemployment or transfer to Texas.
What are the job options in Texas? Is there any good option for someone without experience?
Absent a massive government subsidy and/or tariffs on imports, shale oil is dead for a generation.The economics of it barely made sense even with high-priced oil, but those "profits" were often carried on the backs of massive debt loads. I wouldn't count on Texas coming to the rescue either, as demand is falling off massively and with it, jobs. If you can find a connection, go for it, butenergy will not be a growth industry for at least 2 years based upon my reading of many reports and talking to people in the industry.
What are y'all up to since this recession hit? I mass applied 1 week before the Covid drop, and obviously got rejected by all.
I have been back in the states for nearly 6 months and am desperate for some live-at job like the oil fields
What are the job options in Texas? Is there any good option for someone without experience?
What are y'all up to since this recession hit? I mass applied 1 week before the Covid drop, and obviously got rejected by all.
I have been back in the states for nearly 6 months and am desperate for some live-at job like the oil fields
There's work, just not for the new guys. People are getting called back.
I just scheduled an interview today.
It also looked like things were picking up before COVID, then all the cancellations came.
I’m up in northern British Columbia sitting on my ass all day with a bunch of welders waiting for this pipeline job to kick off, it’s day one so slow as usual. I spent all spring working shutdowns at a couple of oil refineries in Alberta, it was good money but staying in man camps does get old. On this pipeline job we’re staying at a hotel which is nice because I can go fishing after work and smoke fat reefers, I brought up an ounce, should last me the two weeks I’m supposed to be here, cost $100 ($70USD), the price of government ganja has really come down.
I got a call to do some nuke work in Ontario in August but I turned it down, I’d rather be out in the mountains laying pipe than sitting on my ass all day in a super secure nuke plant where I can’t play with my phone all day. It’s good work though, the boys out east seem to like it but I prefer working in the bush, plus the money is better out west.
That is what I am wondering as well.@Cattle Rustler, how so? Do you expect things to improve enough that unskilled jobs might come back here? How difficult are they to get typically?
I saw energy prices overall went up over the past few months.
Cattle Rustler and Scotian, how does the job market look these days in the US for mechanical engineers in your industry? My son just graduated with his Mech Eng degree. Any info that anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. PM is ok too if you guys prefer that. Thanks.