re: I heard layoffs happened at Schlumberger today

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but let's not play this O&G employees are some sort of overly whiny group

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I really don't make it personal like that. But I do think that there is a lacking of long-term perspective in these types of threads. If I did the same job and quality of work I do now in O&G, I'd likely be paid more.

But I have and will have to continue to make that choice of whether I want to chase those riches and roll the dice, or if I want to do what I do for lower pay and take my own industry's headwinds into account. The O&G industry has been very good to most people involved and they are likely paid more and have better jobs than they would have had to settle for in most other markets. They're just about to get a tough lesson that no good fortune is free in the long run. They'll pay for it with their job or the anxiety in retaining one.