Mid 40 s in age now and looking at next roles. Nothing of interest left. We no longer work on anything cutting edge. Expat roles no longer properly compensated. I can’t believe how far the company has fallen. There is nothing interesting left for roles. Time to leave #EXXODUS
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Seems like you hate the industry and old people. First one is easy. Move to a different job. Second one sounds like you need a psychologist.
@nd golden handcuffs excuse means you sold your soul to the devil for a little bigger pension, which may or may not work out for you based on how things are going at EM. maybe you can write an otc paper about that too
I’m two hemorrhoids in and still stuck on level 74.
@mn have you achieved Hi score yet? 🤣🤣🤣
@gx simple answer as to why I stay… golden handcuffs. Why do you stay?
@mn if that is how you like to spend your time you are very different from me.
Who needs interesting when you can sit in the handicap stall all day playing candy crush?
@OP bruh you should leave, take your valuable skills somewhere else
@gt When all else fails, go for the ad hominem.
Oh yeah… “this industry” is still running on technology from 100 years ago. The systems (such as they are) are being held together by glue, duct tape, and positive thoughts. Extremely little of technological significance has happened during the past decade, maybe a bit more the decade before, but nothing that rises to “cutting edge.”
Rhetorical query: if you’re really that good, why are you staying at a dead-end job at a toxic company in a declining industry?
@ge your responses show just how little you know about the history of this industry, what we have done, and how it was done. Those who know know. You clearly don’t know. Bruh.
If an author of one of these fancy papers works for a major operator you can assume whatever they wrote is a summary or pure plagiarism of the actual work some contractors performed for the operator. It’s called stealing credit, sounds like OP was pretty good at it. Luckily no one cares anyway.
@g8 Ok. Who’s read them? You can write papers all day, but if nobody is using your work then it really doesn’t matter.
I’d also point out that most industry papers are really just drawn out case studies, and usually boil down to “here’s another way to keep the wheels on the bus with duct tape.”
Peer review in O&G is also a joke. You have the same people rotating through review committees for all of these “non profits” and they typically just skim the papers submitted then rubber stamp them. It’s not exactly academically rigorous. In many cases, the “peer review” is performed internal to the company, making it even more biased.
Who do you think you’re kidding here bruh?
@f9 Nobody gives AF your OTC papers that you did back in 1987 or whatever.
You people don’t do anything close to “cutting-edge.” You manage procurements, maintain technical standards, and review data. That’s fine, it’s an honest living and it pays well. Now get off this silly soapbox about how you’re all elite design engineers who are at the tip of the spear of applied science.
@g5 another clever reply. Yes OTC papers and ASME papers and OMAE papers. I could go on but you get the idea here. And what have you contributed to engineering?
Wow otc papers! I guess you can je-k off with them now thinking about how much they helped your dead career. Maybe start an only fans, must be a big audience for former otc author has-beens
@ab ypu have no idea and I am not your bruh. Go read my OTC papers and you will see how fu--ing cutting edge I am. Some of us are technical bad as--s who worked out as--s off for this company. Don’t confuse the current state with how things used to be. We used to a whole lot of badass sh-t.
@OP You never worked on anything cutting edge bruh.
If you want to do that (and make the money that goes along with it) you need to have niche, in-demand technical skills that are specific to a high-growth industry. If you work in O&G this probably isn’t you, unless you’re very smart and very lucky.