ok, here I go - new job

plthijinx · 11-17-2005, 09:18 PM

not in the aviation field yet but a friend of mine has been bugging me to come work for another oil/gas firm. i gave in today and sent him my resume. work down here in this field is so booming, i would be surprised if they didn't offer me 15 more an hour than i make now. now is the time to move. i'd take 10 but i'll take what they offer. that and the fact that since the "mom and pop shop" i work for was bought out by a huge company and everything has changed as far as treatment of the employees, i'm ready for a change. we used to be a family. a real working family. now we are just a number. i realize that the company that i'm trying to go to work for is the same way probably but when you insert yourself into an already established environment then it's easier to accept the changes. make sense or am i drunk? either way, i'll let y'all know what happens. wish me luck.

capnhowdy · 11-17-2005, 09:43 PM

talked me right into it, plthijinx...

Career moves IMO are like a poker game. You don't bet anything you don't win anything. Given time, the antes will break you. Go for it....... and good luck.

Make sense? yes
Drunk? hmmm.... noone on THIS site.

plthijinx · 11-17-2005, 10:14 PM

makes sense even in my state now....duhduhdihrunk.

11-17-2005, 11:06 PM

Is a career in aviation what you really want? If so, will side-lining yourself this way hurt you career goals? Is the new job something you'll like doing? Five years down the road, can you visualize yourself still doing it? What might your job look like five years from now if you stayed with aviation?

I'd consider all those things as well as the megabucks which certainly sounds tempting.

plthijinx · 11-18-2005, 07:32 AM

aviation is the ultimate goal. i've been an electrical designer for gas compressor stations, and tank truck loading facilities (gasoline loading racks) for the past 12 years. the only thing holding me up from joining the airlines is lack of multi-engine time. i need 17 more hours to meet the minimum requirements for continental express and realistically about 100 more to be marketable. only problem there is i can't "just go fly them" not at $160/hr. so i have to wait for charters or school related business to fly the twin.
with everything the hurricanes have done to the oil/gas/petrochemical plants around the gulf coast, engineering companies are hiring like mad and paying the rates to get the people in there. i've worked on and off for this company since september of '91 with a hiatus from may of '97 to may '98 when i did a job for chevron overseas petroleum designing a gas compressor barge. since coming back to the company we've been bought by a major engineering company in the south and like i said before we used to be a family. a real working family. now each person is just a number. there's no loyalty left here with anyone anymore.

zippyt · 11-18-2005, 08:34 PM

Luck to ya dude !!!

xoxoxoBruce · 11-18-2005, 09:31 PM

An extra $10 means $400 a week or say $264 after taxes. So in 61 weeks you could pay for 100 hours of multi engine time, less if you get some other flights in there. Then resume city, Baby.

More money would mean even less time, unless you piss it away on luxuries like food, gas and mortgage payments.

wolf · 11-19-2005, 12:28 AM

The man's in love. He faces a difficult decision. Dinner and beers with the squeeze, or AvGas.

11-17-2005, 09:18 PM	#1
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	ok, here I go - new job not in the aviation field yet but a friend of mine has been bugging me to come work for another oil/gas firm. i gave in today and sent him my resume. work down here in this field is so booming, i would be surprised if they didn't offer me 15 more an hour than i make now. now is the time to move. i'd take 10 but i'll take what they offer. that and the fact that since the "mom and pop shop" i work for was bought out by a huge company and everything has changed as far as treatment of the employees, i'm ready for a change. we used to be a family. a real working family. now we are just a number. i realize that the company that i'm trying to go to work for is the same way probably but when you insert yourself into an already established environment then it's easier to accept the changes. make sense or am i drunk? either way, i'll let y'all know what happens. wish me luck. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

11-17-2005, 09:43 PM	#2
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	talked me right into it, plthijinx... Career moves IMO are like a poker game. You don't bet anything you don't win anything. Given time, the antes will break you. Go for it....... and good luck. Make sense? yes Drunk? hmmm.... noone on THIS site. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-17-2005, 10:14 PM	#3
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	makes sense even in my state now....duhduhdihrunk. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

11-18-2005, 07:32 AM	#5
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	aviation is the ultimate goal. i've been an electrical designer for gas compressor stations, and tank truck loading facilities (gasoline loading racks) for the past 12 years. the only thing holding me up from joining the airlines is lack of multi-engine time. i need 17 more hours to meet the minimum requirements for continental express and realistically about 100 more to be marketable. only problem there is i can't "just go fly them" not at $160/hr. so i have to wait for charters or school related business to fly the twin. with everything the hurricanes have done to the oil/gas/petrochemical plants around the gulf coast, engineering companies are hiring like mad and paying the rates to get the people in there. i've worked on and off for this company since september of '91 with a hiatus from may of '97 to may '98 when i did a job for chevron overseas petroleum designing a gas compressor barge. since coming back to the company we've been bought by a major engineering company in the south and like i said before we used to be a family. a real working family. now each person is just a number. there's no loyalty left here with anyone anymore. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

11-18-2005, 08:34 PM	#6
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Luck to ya dude !!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

11-17-2005, 11:06 PM	#4
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	Is a career in aviation what you really want? If so, will side-lining yourself this way hurt you career goals? Is the new job something you'll like doing? Five years down the road, can you visualize yourself still doing it? What might your job look like five years from now if you stayed with aviation? I'd consider all those things as well as the megabucks which certainly sounds tempting.

11-18-2005, 09:31 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	An extra $10 means $400 a week or say $264 after taxes. So in 61 weeks you could pay for 100 hours of multi engine time, less if you get some other flights in there. Then resume city, Baby. More money would mean even less time, unless you piss it away on luxuries like food, gas and mortgage payments. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-19-2005, 12:28 AM	#8
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The man's in love. He faces a difficult decision. Dinner and beers with the squeeze, or AvGas. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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