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    5 years was my longest stint working on a promising career with an industry leader. Both my wife and I left our jobs at the time, bought a VW bus and toured west coast Canada/USA. One of the best decisions of our lives for sure, helped us change gears and priorities. Too many successful people I know that worked themselves to death by 55-60. Not the life I want to live. Money’s cool, but it can’t buy time.

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    8 months. First job out of university and went to the oilfields in a 10/4 shift. Essentially I was doing bookkeeping.

    It was miserable. Didn't regret quitting.

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    4 years of working erratic, unreliable but well paying fieldwork. My boss was pretty mad I decided to go back to school. In hindsight so am I.
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    Quote Originally Posted by msommers View Post
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    4 years of working erratic, unreliable but well paying fieldwork. My boss was pretty mad I decided to go back to school. In hindsight so am I.
    You are unhappy about returning to school to further your career?

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    Quote Originally Posted by revelations View Post
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    You are unhappy about returning to school to further your career?
    If by further your career you mean go from employed to unemployed
    Originally posted by Thales of Miletus

    If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
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    fact.
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    To be fair, he was going to end up unemployed either way, although he would have gotten another year or two of well-paying fieldwork.
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by msommers View Post
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    4 years of working erratic, unreliable but well paying fieldwork. My boss was pretty mad I decided to go back to school. In hindsight so am I.
    fuck is this ever depressing. Time to hit a coding bootcamp dude. How much software skill you got?

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    Quote Originally Posted by revelations View Post
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    You are unhappy about returning to school to further your career?
    It opened doors at CNRL and Imperial Oil. But hiring freezes, IOL Aspen getting shelved and companies restructuring their full-time staff first...opportunities just aren't there. If Aspen was going ahead, they would have hired me already because they told me as such ha. Heavy oil and reservoir characterization is my wheelhouse.

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    To be fair, he was going to end up unemployed either way, although he would have gotten another year or two of well-paying fieldwork.
    Hard to say. Some wellsite guys are getting jobs here and there but it's slim pickings. Some Geosteering guys are still cruising along as per usual which is awesome.

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    fuck is this ever depressing. Time to hit a coding bootcamp dude. How much software skill you got?
    It's not depressing (anymore), it just is what it is honestly. I've really given coding/"data science" all the buzzy shit a real solid effort this year, got Python certificates, etc, but I just have no passion or desire for it at all. Part of changing careers is understanding what you like and don't like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    P.Eng. Not even sure I opened the certificate when I got mine.

    They are happy to send me a bigger bill every year since though as a happy acknowledgement.
    I allegedly got mine on the 29th of July and rec'd it on the 4th of August. Got billed for the full month of July in my first year.
    That's how quickly I learned where APEGA's priorities are. They also refused to award it to me earlier when for about 6 months of my EIT'edness I worked over 70hr/week. Nope - credit for the exact same 26 weeks as every cream jockey holding down an office chair who couldn't find his way to site, let alone know what to do when he got there.

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    They sent you a pin, didn't they? What more do you want!
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    Quote Originally Posted by msommers View Post
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    They sent you a pin, didn't they? What more do you want!
    I apparently had to attend some stupid ceremony to get the pin.

    Did not attend.
    Originally posted by Thales of Miletus

    If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by msommers View Post
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    They sent you a pin, didn't they? What more do you want!
    Fuck - I don't recall getting a pin!! What do you know that I don't??!!! I'm getting fucked right on the ass, aren't I?!!!?

    Hey, I recall your employment struggles recently and since that other guy (nicely) essentially said "LeArN tO cOdE!!" It got me thinking...
    Does anyone in here know how to program PLC control systems or even DCS like DeltaV? It must be a bit rare because those mahfks charge a Brink's Truck of money and it can't be something that is that difficult.

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    16 years. Left and started my own company.
    Cereal Killer.
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    Have not heard of a pin.
    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by msommers View Post
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    I've really given coding/"data science" all the buzzy shit a real solid effort this year, got Python certificates, etc, but I just have no passion or desire for it at all. Part of changing careers is understanding what you like and don't like.
    Also, do not try to hit a home run. Aim for something you like and then the passion will help you advance in that career/role. Done it several times.

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    I never worked any one job longer than 3 years before opening my own business. I would just eat them up, reach a point where I was never going to get any further than I was and would ask myself if I would be satisfied doing this same job forever, and if the answer was no, and it always was, I would move on.

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    Worked at the same place for 12 years.
    Had a great team and was generally pretty happy there. Did look around over the years but didn't really have any incentive to leave. At the end you could tell the department would fold so I decided not to stick around.

    Everyone else was offered a package the month after...

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    Came out of high school. Partied for a year which was a ton of fun. lol.

    Joined the "real world" at a food processing plant (brewing industry) at 19 in operations. I was by far the youngest person there. Did that for exactly 4 years. Left on my own terms to pursue oil sands plant ops. Been doing that for almost 8 years. Told myself when I got hired that I'd do it for 5 years but the economy and lateral moves within has kept me going. Would love to switch to petrochemical at some point tho. Or do something else entirely.
    Looking around
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    Of what I once knew

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    The years of being a lifer are dead.


    I got maybe 5 years in at one place.
    I can eat more hot wings than you.

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    5 years. Left TELUS to become a welder......thats been hit or miss for the last 3 years, especially this year. Like someone else said, I said I'd do it(as a journeyman) for 5 years, I have a bit over 2 years left to move onto something else, maybe get my level one or something.

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