Thread: Keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Could use some prayers up here in Alaska,you may or may not know the oil field is strugglin(thanks Oboma) this past Sunday I was laid off along with a lot of other good folks.My company in there infinite wisdome laid off there most experienced hands.Not going to whine about it.Just asking for prayers that I find good employment and soon.Thanks all and God Bless !

Wishing you all the very best in your search for a new job.

It's never nice to be retrenched. I've been there so I know what you're going through.

I retired from the oilfield over a year ago, 40 years with the same company, the bust a booms will come and go, no different this time. It,ll be back maybe not soon enough for all concerned but it will. Right now the industry is looking at 68% of the work force is laid off and it started last year in January, many people I know are now unemployed. Rig counts down 75% it is a bad one, hopefully you put some of the oilfield cash up in the bank..

I for one won't defend Obama, but you can really blame this one on several factors outside of the admin. I still talk to my board and company management every week(got to keep an eye on my pension) and they have cut expenses to the bone to make it till the next boom, so hang in there, maybe by January of this coming year it will pick up. Tc

From what I have seen you are very talented. I don't think you are going to have a problem getting work. It may be a blessing in disguise. Best of luck.

I know the feeling and will pray for you to get a good job. I was an ironworker for 20 years beginning in a boom in the late 1960s. It was great until the arab oil embargo took hold in '73. Took 5 years for work to get good again back then. Over the 20 years I learned that structural steel erection, construction in general, is "feast or famine', and not much in between those two conditions. In that trade you had to be ready to hit the road and go where the work was when it got like that. Usually there was work somewhere. Not sure what it is like now. I got out of it in '89.

The Opek producers have decide that they want all the sales of oil these days and have oil prices at a 13 year low, or close to it. You would never know it from the pump prices here. There are many many out of work in Canada too. I find it odd that when oils prices are high the companies will pay ridiculous amounts of money to develop, but won't spend a nickel when oil prices are low, but when oil prices are low so are ALL the other costs.
I will keep you in my prayers.

You are in my thoughts AK. Rig count is at a low in North Dakota too. Times like these are when other skills come in handy and you sure have them. Hang tough and work your frustrations out on the anvil making fine razors.

Been there. Sometimes things happen for a good reason. Any time Iwas let go from my job I got a better one with better pay. Trust the man upstairs that he knows what he has in store for you. Will keep you in our prayers. Best of luck.

AK I wish you all the best in your search or recall. You will be in my thoughts. God's speed to you.
Bob

Alaska is a tough place and I am sure it has rubbed off on you. I wish you the best and will keep you in my thoughts. Things will work out.