re: Oil field layoffs are really hitting SLa

My buddy recently started working as an engineer in the LNG sector and it's really enticing but I don't know if I want to live in hackberry

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Thanks. The scary part, for me at least, is that I'm only about a year out of college with $88k left to pay on student loans.

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How do you have $88k in undergrad student loans?

Dude, you put in for unemployment to some extent, get what you can while you can. Keep your head up, your mind open, and your feet to the ground. Many a man has been reinvented when faced with such dire circumstances.

Whatever you do, don't let your pride get in the way...

beam, there are high paying jobs for young engineer types such as yourself all over that area. Believe me, I have lived where I didn't want to before for a big check.

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Many a man has been reinvented when faced with such dire circumstances

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Thanks for the encouragement... I've been trying to stay mostly positive, and at first it was really easy, but it's really starting to drag me down..


You talked about 'reinventing a man'.. This is something I hope to accomplish... I loved the people but I HATED working in the refinery.. I've always wanted to do my own thing like home construction or something along those lines... I have the tools and the know how for most of it, but I have no clientele.. I'm thinking about just getting some sort of job that provide healthcare and will allow me the flexibility to have a side job that hopefully can expand... The hard part is finding the right situations



Thanks for your kind words though

Hangover, what do you do or can you do on a huge construction site?

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Yeah I know id love to have a camp there but idk about living there. We'll see where the road takes me

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Lafayette definitely needs to diversify its economy. This stuff happens every 5-7 years and the people never learn to manage their finances. A lot of the guys in Lafayette love to turn their nose at any man who doesn't work in the industry so it's kind of hard to fell bad for "those" people

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You fricking nailed it. It's a Louisiana problem for not diversifying its economy. It's oil field workers problems for refusing to save.

My dad and grandparents were "victims" of this in the 80's. I'm old enough now to know that it was their own damn fault. Sucked, but we made it through and I'm fine now. I find it hard to have sympathy for those who felt manna would continue to rain from the heavens.

I'm probably an a-hole, but the truth about the real world is no one gives a frick about you. One can't spend everything he earns. It sucks, but we all have to save and plan. For those who don't, guess you guys are sorry for partyin'

I hear ya.

Someone posted earlier about welders making 20 bucks an hour or some shite. The site down there doesn't care if you are 20 or 60 years old, if you can weld stainless or 9chrome and pass X-ray, you are getting 50 bucks an hour and per diem.