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I have applied, or presented my resume' to companies (some the same over the last year) at least an average of 4-5 times a week...

I am no longer on unemployment, I cannot qualify for that till I can get healthy again, and that will hopefully be in a couple of weeks...But getting back on unemployment to me is not something I want to pursue...

It is deader than a doornail, and I am not so sure this industry (oil, gas, energy), or the economy is ever going to recover enough to get a healthier job hiring rate going anytime soon...Nothing new is being contracted, sold, refurbished, expanded for us to work on...

This is incredible...I actually applied to two jobs I found today...I knwo for a fact I'll be competing against a lot of people I know for these two positions...Some of which I know have been out of legitimate industry work (we do) as long a I have been looking...

Considering the year that I have had so far with the health problems, I ask for guidance, wisdom and forgiveness every day...

Maybe some reverse psychology would work???

DoubleJ wrote:So, Steve, since you're on Unemployment, does this make you an honorary Democrat? just curious...

Yeah, I come back in here and this is what I get???

Be glad you are up in the rainy Northwest Pilgrim!!! I might pin a tail on yer donkey for that comment!!!

(oh, thats a good one...I need to write that one down so I don't forget it!)

BTW, if there is anything more embarrasing...I need to know...Because even though I have not been a total slug in trying to find good employment, I am still sort of without...

Coming up on a year...This is just total crap in my book...

I don't even want to hire me...

Good thing I still have my looks and sense of humor...

Ahhh, yes, still looking...

The initial unemployment ran out, and now I am on the federal extention benefits for another 20 weeks...

But my network contacts say that the industry is loosening up...

I don't have, nor can I post a flying pig animation to emphasize my opinion on the matter...

Yet, I am strangely in good spirits...

I bet someone will come in and just say its the meds I'm on...

Bart wrote:Good luck! I heard someone say Obama's campiagn promises are now "shovel ready"

You have to wonder what is needing to be shoveled...

Canyou believe it...I am still looking!!! Woo Hoo!!!

Ain't unemployment great!!! /sarcasm

Good thing I have an outstanding personality and outlook on life...

Or we'd be in heap big trouble kemosabe!!!

gregthehand wrote:My girlfriend works for Jay Ray McDermott and I will have her ask. Check out my companies website too http://www.nov.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.

McDermott is something I am looking into, I do not have a contact there, so this would help...

National Oilwell Varco is not on my list, I used to work there, and unless something (someone(s)) is changed, it would not be worth putting up with that again...I just talk to someone I used to work with there today...He said nothing has changed...

KD5NRH wrote:

stevie_d_64 wrote:yet I have about 18 in the CAD engineering design field...So this is not my first dance...

You might check with the trade schools; anybody that's not waiting for hopey-changey handouts is going to be trying to get back to school after they get laid off, so the schools that place more emphasis on industry-experienced teaching staff might be interested.

Yep, that is something I am considering...

I was doing some shop talk with someone I know, and we are of the same opinion that the "offshore" industry should be ramping up and be the dominant field to be working in in our part of the process...There is probably going to be yet another stumbling block put on the California coast again...So the Florida "gulf" area is where there may be some movement on some offshore rig projects in the near future...

But considering the political and environmental efforts to thwart any progress anywhere, it may not happen to the degree we believe to make employment a sure thing...But then again considering what happened today, I am a bit cynical...

I thought of a funny just now...

"Just because I am a gun-nut, doesn't mean I'll go postal!"

But some people I figure have absolutely no sense of humor...

There are quite a number of members in this forum that know for a fact that I cannot ever be taken seriously...

You know that feeling you get when the "big boss" calls you up and asks to see you...



Yep, it happened to me and about 20% of the project staff at the "former" company I work(ed) for today...

Yeah, bummer...Major...

Ok, so I am a process piping designer, 'bout 2 years experience in that industry, yet I have about 18 in the CAD engineering design field...So this is not my first dance...

Companies like Jacobs, McDermott, Black and Veech, Shaw, CDI, CBI (Hal Baker) etc etc...

You know its bad when the economy and bad project planning hit this industry...I saw it coming but didn't think they'd hit this deep into the staff this time...

So I am actually venting a bit, attitude is in check, and did I mention I am a gun nut??? (should be a bonus in there somewhere)...

Feel free to PM me if you know someone at one of those companies that does Delayed Coker plant piping design, or other plant work that requires PDS designers (whatever exp level needed, blah blah blah, y'all know the drill)...

I am also open to running the ISO-metric control aspects of a project if the need is there as well...They'll know what that means...

Did I mention I am a gun-nut???

Actually, I am a well stocked gun nut...

Good thing I am such a nice guy, and stable too!!!