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 Council- Houston, TX
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Houston, Texas - Houston, TX
Shell- Houston, TX
Repsol USA- The Woodlands, TX
Energy Transfer Partners- Houston, TX
Airswift- Houston, TX
IDfour - Houston, TX
JAB Recruitment - Houston, TX
Crown Castle- Houston, TX
Exxon Mobil- Houston, TX
Noble Energy, Inc. - Houston, TX
Summit Midstream Partners, LLC- The Woodlands, TX
Hatch- Houston, TX
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company- The Woodlands, TX
Waste Management- Houston, TX
Buffalo Bayou Partnership - Houston, TX
Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America- Houston, TX
Airswift- Houston, TX
NACE International- Houston, TX
EMS Energy Solutions - Houston, TX
Energy Transfer Partners- Houston, TX
ICF- Houston, TX
ROSEN Group- Houston, TX
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - The Woodlands, TX
AIM World Services - Houston, TX
Hexagon Geosystems - Houston, TX
WALTER P MOORE- Houston, TX
Energy Transfer Partners- Houston, TX
Access Sciences Corporation- The Woodlands, TX
National Oilwell Varco- Houston, TX
Noble Energy, Inc. - Houston, TX
Harris County Flood Control District- Houston, TX
Jacintoport - Houston, TX
Emerus- The Woodlands, TX
Houston-Galveston Area Council- Houston, TX
Houston-Galveston Area Council- Houston, TX
UniversalPegasus International- Houston, TX
Wounded Warrior Project- Houston, TX
McKesson- Conroe, TX
Walker Elliott - Houston, TX
DCP Midstream- Houston, TX
ICF- Houston, TX
The Emery Company - Houston, TX
New Earth- Conroe, TX
Citi- Houston, TX
Citi- Houston, TX
City of Houston, TX- Houston, TX
BHP Billiton- Houston, TX
City of Houston, TX- Houston, TX
Lone Star College System- Houston, TX
KellyMitchell- Spring, TX
Summit Midstream Partners, LLC- The Woodlands, TX
EMS Energy Solutions - Houston, TX
Noble Energy, Inc. - Houston, TX
INVISTA- La Porte, TX
Worldwide Flight Services- Humble, TX
Piper-Morgan Associates - Houston, TX
City of Houston, TX- Houston, TX
Houston ISD- Houston, TX
Confidential - Houston, TX
GeoDigital- Houston, TX
Cheesemakers, Inc. - Conroe, TX
Pro-West & Associates, Inc. - Houston, TX
Airswift- Houston, TX
Stantec- Houston, TX
Intercontinental Terminals Company- La Porte, TX
Waste Management- Houston, TX
The Creative Group- Houston, TX
Harris County- Houston, TX
ITT CTreat - The Woodlands, TX
Martin Brower - Conroe, TX
City of Huntsville, TX - Huntsville, TX
Texas A&M University- College Station, TX
Buckeye Partners, L.P. - Houston, TX
Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department (CFVFD) - Houston, TX
Waste Connections- The Woodlands, TX
AIG- Houston, TX
Boardwalk Pipelines- Houston, TX
Range Resources Corporation- Houston, TX
Houston-Galveston Area Council- Houston, TX
Hess Corporation- Houston, TX
BakerCorp- La Porte, TX
Saudi Aramco- United States
Wood Mackenzie- Houston, TX
3coast- The Woodlands, TX
Woodlands Mechanical Group - Oak Ridge North, TX
NEORig- Conroe, TX
Waste Connections- The Woodlands, TX
Wells Fargo- Houston, TX
Harris County Flood Control District- Houston, TX
City of Houston, TX- Houston, TX
Marathon Oil- Houston, TX
Hart Energy- Houston, TX
Transwestern- Houston, TX
Technical Response Planning Corporation - The Woodlands, TX
New Braunfels Utilities - New Braunfels, TX
3coast- The Woodlands, TX
McKesson- Conroe, TX
DCP Midstream- Conroe, TX
Newfield Exploration- The Woodlands, TX
Williams- Houston, TX
Apple- Austin, TX
City of Houston - Public Works and Engineering- Houston, TX
Houston Independent School District- Houston, 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