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How My Oil and Gas Career Began

April 8, 2020 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Twenty-five years ago, I embarked on an eight-month adventure that would define my adult life. It was not intended to. In fact, at the time it was more lark than prescience. Okay, maybe lark isn’t the fairest description, but academic value and eyes to my future were certainly not priorities when I chose to spend […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Calgary, career, geology, nostalgia, oil patch

The Irony of Poor Communication

December 17, 2019 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

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The other day, as I wasted a few more hours of my aimless life plodding through monotonous Candy Crush levels, the voice on the radio caught my attention by mentioning that next year marks the 25th anniversary of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. Upon hearing this factoid, my mind blurted an invective lamenting yet further […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Calgary, communication, interview, layoffs, oil patch

Geology’s God Complex

October 2, 2019 by acrockofschmidt 10 Comments

If I’ve learned anything on LinkedIn, it’s that a lot of geologists fancy themselves climatologists. Expert ones, even. Almost weekly, one or another of my connections likes, shares, or comments on a post that either questions anthropogenic climate change or outright denies it. Some of these articles are obvious partisan rants, borne of frustration and […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: climate change, denial, geology, glaciation, oil patch, science

The Return Intern

September 10, 2019 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I have a fantastic idea. It’s a self-serving idea, to be sure, but I believe it to be fantastic nonetheless. I haven’t looked for a job in nearly fifteen years. I haven’t had a job for more than ten of those. But kids age and spouses lose jobs. So like a fledgling, I awkwardly tumbled […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Calgary, intern, jobs, oil patch, stay-at-home parents, student

Know Thy Golden Handcuffs

May 23, 2019 by acrockofschmidt 1 Comment

Aristotle said, “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”  The man was centuries ahead of his time with that meme-worthy nugget.  He was Facebook before Facebook was cool.  Or invented.  He was also full of shit. Truth is, knowing yourself is the beginning of depression.  And self-loathing.  Knowing myself has never so much as […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Job, layoffs, oil patch, work

There’s No Vaccine for Layoffs

March 4, 2019 by acrockofschmidt 6 Comments

You think you’re immune, until you discover you aren’t. In February 1995, god that’s nearly thirty years ago, I grew up in a hurry.  Or at least my budding work persona did.  I was one of five wide-eyed geology students freshly fallen from the Ontario turnip truck in the early weeks of eight month, co-op, […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, jobs, layoffs, NotAngryAB, oil patch

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