What I've been doing lately
I'm losing my job. My company announced a few months ago that they were going to sell all of their offshore and international oil and gas properties and just remain onshore North America. That means they won't need the people that work those properties either. Of which I am one. I guess it's the equivalent of a plant closing. But we have to sell the properties first and that's what we're in the process of doing, trying to get the best deal possible for the company that is going to boot us out. Oh well, we must be professional about it.
I haven't mentioned it as I know there are a lot of people on LJ in much worse shape. As long as I stick around until they release me, they will send me off with a pile of money, enough to live on for a couple of years if necessary, but I doubt it will take very long to find another job. Whatever. Been there, done that.
For the first couple months after the announcement, I was very busy as we actually got money to drill a few wells, proven reserves being much more valuable than 'probable' reserves. But now I have nothing to do until the data rooms open to the potential buyers in a couple of weeks, and even then I may not be very busy, I just need to be 'available'. In the meantime I've been playing around with programs that I always wanted to try, but never found the time to. And I volunteered to be a tutor in a program sponsored by my employer at a local elementary school.
Today I met the 2nd grade girl that I will be working with for the next couple of months. She was quite the chatterbox once she got going. I found out her favorite color (red), favorite activity (basketball), and that she lived with her mother and siblings in a shelter. She readily gossiped about the people at the shelter, and recited the shelter rules to me. Between stories of the Superbowl party and playing basketball on Saturdays, she told me about the cockroaches in the food, that a friend of hers was hit so hard by her mother that she lost a tooth and had to go to the hospital to get stitches, and that her 16 year old brother was killed by some people who beat him up, robbed him, and shot him in the head.
Perspective, I haz it.
I haven't mentioned it as I know there are a lot of people on LJ in much worse shape. As long as I stick around until they release me, they will send me off with a pile of money, enough to live on for a couple of years if necessary, but I doubt it will take very long to find another job. Whatever. Been there, done that.
For the first couple months after the announcement, I was very busy as we actually got money to drill a few wells, proven reserves being much more valuable than 'probable' reserves. But now I have nothing to do until the data rooms open to the potential buyers in a couple of weeks, and even then I may not be very busy, I just need to be 'available'. In the meantime I've been playing around with programs that I always wanted to try, but never found the time to. And I volunteered to be a tutor in a program sponsored by my employer at a local elementary school.
Today I met the 2nd grade girl that I will be working with for the next couple of months. She was quite the chatterbox once she got going. I found out her favorite color (red), favorite activity (basketball), and that she lived with her mother and siblings in a shelter. She readily gossiped about the people at the shelter, and recited the shelter rules to me. Between stories of the Superbowl party and playing basketball on Saturdays, she told me about the cockroaches in the food, that a friend of hers was hit so hard by her mother that she lost a tooth and had to go to the hospital to get stitches, and that her 16 year old brother was killed by some people who beat him up, robbed him, and shot him in the head.
Perspective, I haz it.