I moved to Houston about 4 years ago. It's so hard to get a new job here because of everything being an hour away.

I'm in the League City area, and every job listing is ambiguous on location. I'll get a call only to find out the person calling me is working for a company over an hour way in Spring, TX.

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What company do you wanna work for in LC? I imagine there isn’t a massive list of them there anyway? I’d think it would be easier to work backwards from a list of them there.

I imagine a good LLM could spit out a fairly reasonable list of them.

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Assuming you're responding to job applications, are you googling the company before you respond to confirm their location? Are you making your expectations re location clear in your cover letter?

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Saying it's hard to get a job in houston is like saying you can't find water when you're in the ocean. You're just doing something wrong. The job market here, for qualified and skilled workers***, is insanely strong. I get interviews and offers semi regularly without looking.

Not for white guys over 40. It’s a DEI world and I wasn't invited. 10 years in Oil and Gas and 5 years in energy consulting and I had a whopping 3 interviews since I was laid off in December. Many Houston boutique firms are cash-strapped and seeing layoffs everywhere. I will probably have to get back into oil and gas field operations. I am done with the DEI bs, the retard managers, and the political dick-sucking you have to do to stay off the annual transitioning-out crowd.

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