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Hey Roy thank you for your service. Your post caught my eye not as an Oil & Gas expert myself but as a seasoned business person (and U.S. Navy Vet) that has worked in almost all of the major cities in Texas. You mentioned that you will be heading back to Texas soon (Austin) and I'm not sure when the last time you worked in Texas was but the O&G sector has all but moved to China and elsewhere if you can believe that. Of course there is still and most likely will always be a presence here in Texas but it is a shadow of what it once was. I've worked in DFW (15 yrs), Houston, San Antonio and Austin and even in Houston, the industry hovers around 10% of what it was 15 yrs ago.
Midland/Odessa is most likely still the epicenter of O&G in the state but life there (although it has been built up tremendously in the past 10 yrs.) definitely comes with some sacrifices.
Something that I encourage all soon to be military vets to do is create a list of your soft skills and focus on those as a basis for your job hunting. In the military, it's part of our programming to focus on our actual rating or MOS or specialty and forget that we were trained in a million other things. Those million other things are really where you will shine when entering into the civilian sector.
Skills such as leadership, training, attention to detail, document control, critical thinking, etc.
You might find that you will open up many more options in available positions.
One last item that I might suggest is to be flexible, if you are able to, in your geographic available range. There may be opportunities that are not sitting perfectly in Austin five minutes away.
Wishing you a ton of luck and if you ever need a second, third or fourth set of eyes on your resume feel free to reach out.
Jesse
Hi Jesse,
Thank you for the response. I agree with you completely and you wrapped everything that I was thinking about in your response. I will take your advice wholeheartedly.