New Economy of Low Oil Prices: Dreams Crushed
Coming to Alberta’s Oilfield in just a car and packed bags in 2013, hoping to be in a Ferrari by 30. Then comes the collapse…
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The New Alberta Economy
The Fall and (Partial) Recovery in Oil Prices: Pessimism and Cost-Cutting Many jobs and incomes prior to the oil crash in 2015 aren’t coming back.…
Struggle to Change Careers from Oil and Gas
I am coming to the realization that I may be in the oilfield until the day I die. Mostly everything else don’t pay anything worth…
From $124,000 Yearly Income at Age 25, To No Net Income
In 2018 I was 25 years old and brought home around $124,000. I worked both as an employee and a contractor in Alberta and BC:…
Good and Bad in a Person
You don’t hate them, you just hate the things they do. There is always something you can’t stand in somebody. Some people have more things…
Another Day in the Oilsands
Here I sit alone in my semi truck at an oilsands plant between Conklin and Fort McMurray. The cab offers relieving refuge from the scorching…
January 2018- Reversal of Fortunes?
The second half of 2017 was met with a series of unfortunate events: A sudden $2,460 dental bill, $11,880 special assessment, $895 legal fees, $1,500…
Dilemma of Pains of the Past
My years of self-development have involved co-workers causing me to lose jobs, going through women looking for other guys with no direction in their lives,…
October 2017: 4 Years + 5 Months in Alberta
Sudden $2,460 dental bill. Sudden $1,000 vehicle bill. Selected for a CRA 2016 Tax Review. Further tightening mortgage rules by OSFI. The ending of the…
Emotional Struggles of the Alberta Oilfield
Still fresh in my memory is the driving and moving to an oil town with a population of around 7,000 where I knew nobody, and…