WTRanger

IBD and PE opportunities, particularly in Energy. Everything I've seen seems like it places extremely well, but I can see how it would be competitive.

I don't mean this to be rude, but you're not going to go directly from your current job to your dream NYC job. Find more achievable goals to help lay the path to get there. Lots of things will help, transitioning to a front-office banking role, CFA, MBA, etc. The most likely way you can get there is from the highest ranked full-time MBA program you can get into. Of course, the things I mentioned will improve your MBA candidacy.

In banking, in Houston not NYC.

Would that be smoking inside strangers' condos, surfing on unmarked cabs, or other?

Rising cost of higher education due to easy access to loans/grants.

I'm staying away from services for the time being until rig counts bottom out.

I figured it was something along those lines. I was picturing a credit training program for banks that don't have their own.

Use every single resource available to you. Network, make connections, leverage family relationships, reach out to LSU career services, monster.com, etc. If you're just dropping your resume on organizations' websites, you're not going to have a ton of luck, those things are black holes.

To build on what Flask said, I don't see how this MBA would add value short term, particularly if you have a job lined up, and it could limit long term opportunities. You would be preventing yourself from completing a more prestigious program in the future and/or a company sponsored one.