

Posted: 4/21/2017 10:25:07 PM EDT
I like who I work for. Not where I am working. Fuck Pecos, Texas. This place is a shit hole. I have been with the same company for 14 years and most of the work is in this area. We come out here for 14 or 21 days straight , then we go home for a week or two. No set schedule. I think it may be time for a career change.
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I love the location of my job and the hours and that im really good at it.
that's it. everything else sucks. |
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Haha.
I just landed in Dallas for a month on business. I feel you. |
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I drove through Pecos once in 1992. It was desolate and windy. Saw an actual tumbleweed blow across the road. I think everyone went to this one house on the side of the road and were planning on drinking beer till the wind blew the place down.
I knew I didn't want to spend much time there and kept driving. Tyler's a long way from Pecos. |
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I work in surveying. Specializing in oil field. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What career, OP? Oil Field, Ag, Honey Wagon? You might get lucky and find a company that does SUE work for utilities, provided you are up on that stuff. |
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Had to stop in Pecos for gas one time. My then 9 year old daughter gets out of the pickup, looks around and says "What a sad little town"
I laughed my ass off. |
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My employer is great to me. Great place to work. I'll be here forever.
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Either embrace the suck, or find another subfield, like subdivision layout or move to Louisiana and cut brush in the swamp. You might get lucky and find a company that does SUE work for utilities, provided you are up on that stuff. View Quote I have seen plenty of alligators and snakes while working. I have had a rattlesnake bite me while working in Fort Worth. Luckily it didn't make it through my boot.I have stepped on numerous other snakes throughout my career and it doesn't bother me. I just sever their heads with a machete. |
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I moved my family 600 miles for this job. Not too crazy about Michigan, but the job is fucking awesome. Because of the job (and the ridiculous income), we find we can tolerate a lot.
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I had to get a tetanus shot, hepatitis shot, typhoid shot, cipro script and malaria prevention pills for where I have to go to work.
The commute is kinda long. |
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My employer treats me great. I will make 6 figures this year. He pays for my insurance 100%. Matches my retirement contributions. I guess I am just bitching about Pecos. View Quote Money, perks, benefits, and kindness are all nice but in reality if you hate your job/location its hard to be happy at the end of the day. Time doesnt stop and life is too short to do something if you dislike it that bad. |
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I hate my job, my field, my employer and my clients. There was thread last night about a guy that cleans port-a-potties, and I was envious. Honest work for honest pay and he's appreciated. I'm on call 24/7 and get woken up at 2 A.M because some dumb ass in India decided to reboot a server and interrupted an offsite backup.
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I've hated some of my previous jobs, but this one is the coolest I've ever had.
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I will agree FT Worth is better that Dallas. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Where are you headed? I had to take some of that when I went to the Philippines when I was in the army. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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For years I thought I did. Then after looking at the grass over a few fences, I gradually realized I work for a great company and if I weren't such a curmudgeon, I'd probably really like my job.
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I work for a private security company, it is the definition of suck, the client actually treats us better than the company we work for.
Monday I start training for a new job as a dog walker and will be cutting back to working a few nights a week here for some extra income. |
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I worked in S. Dallas for a year and a half, I transferred to Monahans when the opportunity arose. View Quote I'd sure like to see how much activity there is in a place like Pecos right now. Looking at two year old imagery I'm seeing FEMA trailer camps and other more-permanent living quarters thrown up out there. |
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My employer treats me great. I will make 6 figures this year. He pays for my insurance 100%. Matches my retirement contributions. I guess I am just bitching about Pecos. View Quote But I didn't lose my job because of the recession or 0bama, either of which could've done it. My wife survived breast cancer and my daughter survived brain cancer in a 2 year span, and the company gave me the flexibility to work through it. My family and I would've had a tough time surviving without my job at this company. "Hate" is a word I could never use. I'm grateful for every paycheck they let me earn there. I'm lucky, and I know it. i don't know what Pecos, TX is like - but to me it wouldn't matter. What you described above is exceedingly rare these days. You're lucky too. |
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Job is interesting, pay is ok and bennies are good, waaaay out of my career field and busy, but the location sucks.
I am not cut out for little dying towns in the middle of nowhere where houses go for <$3000 at auction and the major source of income is disability income. Temps are getting into the 70's and it is HOT. 30 more degrees to the height of the season. Gotta wonder, most of my peers probably think I am foreign and bust out laughing when I use an uncommon word in the morning meetings and have a northern accent. It all just reinforces I am not cut out for this place. Gotta get back north of 49, but the jobs are getting really scarce in AK and the CAD is in the toilet. |
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