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elehhhhna

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9. we probably agree then

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 11:08 AM

Dec 2014

I headhunt for small oil/gas exploration and production companies. My clients are scared. I'm concerned.

I'm not here to defend fracking, BP, etc. I know things I can't say here. Some bad. I will tell you the biggest surprise to me in moving into this market ( came from legal staffing, very different) : the engineers, geoscientists, and company owners and managers that I deal with are not people who want to trash the environment. It's a dirty, risky, dangerous business but it's not run by evil people. There are huge exceptions of course. Note that the biggest safety fukups in recent memory in US oil production were committed by foreign companies operating here.

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Crashing Oil Prices Will Be Terrible ONLY For A Tiny Part Of The US Economy [View all] Fred Sanders Dec 2014 OP

only if you call banks, private equity and @ 9% of the economy "tiny" elehhhhna Dec 2014 #1

Who suffers then? Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #2

tx, ok, ak, co, ca, nm, ut, wy,nd,sd,la, pa, off the top of my head. elehhhhna Dec 2014 #4

When you hire on with Wellstone ruled Dec 2014 #3

and when every job gained by the OA goes away in the next 12 months, elehhhhna Dec 2014 #5

Well, we IT folks who saw our high-paying jobs with good benefits go overseas and to h-1b visa djean111 Dec 2014 #6

i am a staffing rockstar headhunter. i watched IT go to hell back then. elehhhhna Dec 2014 #7

Oh, I have been called a racist because the IT jobs are gone. Not cool either. djean111 Dec 2014 #8

we probably agree then elehhhhna Dec 2014 #9

Well, you could be a programmer for an oil company TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #10

I was a programmer/system manager/QA/overseas support and liaison for one of djean111 Dec 2014 #11