Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Places I Applied at in 2017-2018

Chronological order of places I have applied to (and received no response from or limited response) in the last 200 days.
Does NOT include Chenega or CISD or Costco.

Please note that there are many on here more than once.

Warren Averett Staffing and Recruiting - Houston, TX
STS - Subsea & ES - Americas - Houston, TX
ExxonMobil Houston, TX
Houston-Galveston Area CouncilHouston, TX
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Houston, Texas - Houston, TX
ShellHouston, TX
Repsol USAThe Woodlands, TX
Energy Transfer PartnersHouston, TX
AirswiftHouston, TX
IDfour - Houston, TX
JAB Recruitment - Houston, TX
Crown CastleHouston, TX
Exxon MobilHouston, TX
Noble Energy, Inc.Houston, TX
Summit Midstream Partners, LLCThe Woodlands, TX
HatchHouston, TX
Chevron Phillips Chemical CompanyThe Woodlands, TX
Waste ManagementHouston, TX
Buffalo Bayou Partnership - Houston, TX
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift AmericaHouston, TX
AirswiftHouston, TX
NACE InternationalHouston, TX
EMS Energy Solutions - Houston, TX
Energy Transfer PartnersHouston, TX
ICFHouston, TX
ROSEN GroupHouston, TX
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - The Woodlands, TX
AIM World Services - Houston, TX
Hexagon Geosystems - Houston, TX
WALTER P MOOREHouston, TX
Energy Transfer PartnersHouston, TX
Access Sciences CorporationThe Woodlands, TX
National Oilwell VarcoHouston, TX
Noble Energy, Inc.Houston, TX
Harris County Flood Control DistrictHouston, TX
Jacintoport - Houston, TX
EmerusThe Woodlands, TX
Houston-Galveston Area CouncilHouston, TX
Houston-Galveston Area CouncilHouston, TX
UniversalPegasus InternationalHouston, TX
Wounded Warrior ProjectHouston, TX
McKessonConroe, TX
Walker Elliott - Houston, TX
DCP MidstreamHouston, TX
ICF- Houston, TX
The Emery Company - Houston, TX
New EarthConroe, TX
CitiHouston, TX
CitiHouston, TX
City of Houston, TXHouston, TX
BHP BillitonHouston, TX
City of Houston, TXHouston, TX
Lone Star College SystemHouston, TX
KellyMitchellSpring, TX
Summit Midstream Partners, LLCThe Woodlands, TX
EMS Energy Solutions - Houston, TX
Noble Energy, Inc.Houston, TX
INVISTALa Porte, TX
Worldwide Flight ServicesHumble, TX
Piper-Morgan Associates - Houston, TX
City of Houston, TXHouston, TX
Houston ISDHouston, TX
Confidential - Houston, TX
GeoDigitalHouston, TX
Cheesemakers, Inc. - Conroe, TX
Pro-West & Associates, Inc. - Houston, TX
AirswiftHouston, TX
StantecHouston, TX
Intercontinental Terminals CompanyLa Porte, TX
Waste ManagementHouston, TX
The Creative GroupHouston, TX
Harris CountyHouston, TX
ITT CTreat - The Woodlands, TX
Martin Brower - Conroe, TX
City of Huntsville, TX - Huntsville, TX
Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX
Buckeye Partners, L.P.Houston, TX
Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department (CFVFD) - Houston, TX
Waste ConnectionsThe Woodlands, TX
AIGHouston, TX
Boardwalk PipelinesHouston, TX
Range Resources CorporationHouston, TX
Houston-Galveston Area CouncilHouston, TX
Hess CorporationHouston, TX
BakerCorpLa Porte, TX
Saudi AramcoUnited States
Wood MackenzieHouston, TX
3coastThe Woodlands, TX
Woodlands Mechanical Group - Oak Ridge North, TX
NEORigConroe, TX
Waste ConnectionsThe Woodlands, TX
Wells FargoHouston, TX
Harris County Flood Control DistrictHouston, TX
City of Houston, TXHouston, TX
Marathon OilHouston, TX
Hart EnergyHouston, TX
TranswesternHouston, TX
Technical Response Planning Corporation - The Woodlands, TX
New Braunfels Utilities - New Braunfels, TX
3coastThe Woodlands, TX
McKessonConroe, TX
DCP MidstreamConroe, TX
Newfield ExplorationThe Woodlands, TX
WilliamsHouston, TX
AppleAustin, TX
City of Houston - Public Works and EngineeringHouston, TX
Houston Independent School DistrictHouston, TX

Time for a Third Career in 2018

2017 is at an end, 2018 is a couple of days old I am still not gainfully employed full time.

All I can do is bitch, bitch, bitch.

Lots of shit has happened in 2017.

In March, I landed a full time job as a contractor on the US Army installation Fort Hood in the Public Works Directorate under the Chenega Facilities Management contract.  It was a shaweet job ... back in the GIS field where I had made my overall contributions within my career.

Chenega had good bennies.  Nice work place vibe.  Not so much vertical opportunity,but as a contractor, that is a given.  Working under this company, on this contract, would have been a nice finish to my working life.  I took a lot of good things away from that job when I quit.

The Chenega opportunity came knocking at the wrong time in my life.  The constant travelling every weekend reminded me that this was NOT the place for me at the time.  It was a hard lesson to learn and it taught me that taking a position so far from home without dragging my family along with me would bankrupt me if I kept working at it.

So, in September, after a long talk with my Wife, I resigned.  No warning, no two week notice.  I just quit.

I never did anything that abrupt in my life.  Ever.

Dad died in December.  I was glad I was already back home for those eventful few weeks.  Living four hours away would have been a real pain in the ass to travel to my hometown in support of my Mother during this stressful time.

We stayed relatively afloat after I quit the contracting job. I managed to stay in with the ISD as a Sub and work at the bike shop my brother-in-law owns.  Then I got a seasonal position that lasted two months in wholesale during the Christmas shopping season.  I thought this would be as good a place to shelter than any, but even that thought would be pushed out in the cold of unemployment.

So, today, I focus on finishing my pedagogy licensing and put in for a Teaching position locally.

Who knows, maybe a local contract will manifest itself and I can muddle through the next seven months making a feeble living before I can become a full-fledged Teacher and get on with a district nearby.

More at a later time.

Ciao,
Darrell