My fellow Chevronoids, just grow a pair and get out while you still have time. I didn't even wait for the EOI. Just took a job at Spacex propulsion division in LA. Mechanical engineer here. Great salary, tons of stocks and relocation paid for. MOVE on guys, Chevron is absolute sh– and I won't look back. Just sayin'
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Yes, there’s life after Chevron. I worked 26 great years with the company before getting laid off. I knew I was financially ready and able to retire, but the transition was not easy for the first year. I say this because I wasn’t emotionally ready for retirement. I wasn’t prepared for someone else to dictate the end of my career, as I was 58 years old when I was let go. My desire was to work until 62. After a few months of looking for a few work opportunities and not meeting with any luck, I finally came to terms with myself. I decided to become a full time retiree, which since late 2016 I have been enjoying more than I thought. For those who find themselves out of a job at 58, don’t despair. One way or another, things do work out.
I am with Amazon in Austin after 20 years at Chevron. WOW, talking about being under a rock. Amazon is so much fun and innovative please to work. I LOVE it here.
It is hard to adjust to life without the Chevron pay check. But adjustments must be made so that life without Chevron can be lived healthily and happier. My 25 year career with Chevron ended in 2016. I was devastated, but as time had moved on I appreciate the time with the company and now with where I am in life today. Do not despair staying positive and including loved ones will help you to move on.
I came from Aerospace and am now in O&G and if Biden gets elected, your a– is gone.
they provide free breaks at 4:20pm
Space X also lays off. They also fire people alot
Gee, you guys are brutal :) Let the man enjoy his ride at X. I had an interview with them and as a EE the pay base wasn't that bad. Stock options where crazy and when these materialize will make a lot of folks rich. I decided to continue riding the easy Chevron gravy train as it don;t take much wok here, so why get off it
My advice as someone who worked at ARCO for 10+ years in Dallas and then bailed in 1992:
1) Always keep yourself current and known in the outside world so that you have a place to try to go if the "opportunity" arises
2) Have marketable skills that are relevant outside the oil industry and know how to sell them
3) It is unlikely that you can go to work for any large company and get the Golden Handcuffs that you have now with Chevron. Nobody offers pensions; pay is generally lower; benefits are lower; work hours are longer. You can get rich outside of the oil industry, but not as a technical cog in another large organization. It won't happen.
4) You won't make it as an independent consultant unless you have previously and successfully done consulting
5) Start looking for a new job months before names are named, so that you can get a new job AND the severance.
6) I took a $17k pay cut to go work for a small company in a state way outside of Texas when I got layed off, but I've spent the last 30 years doing exactly what I wanted to do, lived exactly where I wanted to live, made enough money for an average upper middle class lifestyle and am very happy that I did get the hell out of Texas and the world of the large oil corporations. I've stayed as an O&G consultant in a niche area, but have also broadened my practice to a number of industries outside of oil and gas.
When I spoke to SpaceX, the salary wasn’t enough to match the quality of life that Chevron pays. Plus, the job was in Long Beach.
LOL, living in California? Been there done that. Politics, high-taxes, squirrelly people, eathquakes, fires ... yup, I left. There is NO utopia folks, and the grass is never greener on other side of fence.
Why jump from one kind of crazy to another kind of crazy? EM would be brutal to work for.
Haha dude. Spacex pays like sh– bro. I’ve had friends who worked there and it’s an 80k a year piss party in LA. Post your salary or f— off :).
Congrats! I’ve heard SpaceX only takes the best of the best. Any advice for those with a more ‘oily’ background (e.g. PetEng) who might not have such transferable skills?
Yep, 16+ hours day working for SpaceX for about the same or little more money in a city with high cost of living. Sure
He's here because he has no life, no woman, no future, and no prospects. Save it, LMAO!
You’re here. Looking back. LoL
I agree