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Originally Posted by RichieRich
Maybe I'm missing something but it did not seem easy to pivot from O&G into "something else" that uses the same skills, whilst still staying in Calgary. It was not practical for me to pivot into IT-related field. I'm open to suggestions for getting outa this rat race and hopefully to a lot-less stressful work environment. Gotta work to live, not live to work.
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I think it depends what discipline. I was a reservoir/development engineer, which isn't very transferable. I started my own business (which is completely unrelated to my education or experience).
My whole team was laid off at the same time. The accountants/HR folks tended to go outside oil and gas but within their discipline. The engineers/geologists/geophysics types tended to either stay in O&G or do something totally different (probably a 50/50 split). A few got related "clean energy" type jobs (lithium brine mining, geothermal, etc) but those were the exception not the rule.
I think in general the grass isn't always greener. I like having my own business, but COVID has been pretty bad for that. And I know one person who went to a clean energy startup that went bankrupt and they were out of work again, with no severance or last paycheck.