great story. congrats on getting your own thing going.
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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I'd be interested in that as well!
Since I'm asking I'll start: I was laid off in 2016 from an oil and gas job I had held since graduating. After my severance and EI ran out without any offers, and only a couple of tangentially related interviews I ended up starting a business in a (very) unrelated field. There were some lean years involved (the first two and then 18 months during covid) but now I'm earning more than I was in O&G with less hours/office politics/permanent work from home.
The downside is the variability- covid wasn't a lot if fun for economic reasons for me, for example. I am now seeing plenty of roles come up that I'd be qualified for (if you got over the 6 year gap...) but I don't intend to apply. In fact, I'm planning to put my P Eng to non-practicing as doing the professional development hours is a burden when I'm not using it. I really enjoyed being a development engineer, but the trade-offs of going back don't make sense to me. It isn't like I'd be guaranteed 25 years of stability on O&G...
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