I’m in the oil and gas business and it’s like the Mafia, there’s no getting out. You think your ready to bail and somebody offers more money. Plan on officially walking away at 70 which is just a few years away, my wife will be 62 by then. haven’t quite decided where we’re going yet but I promise it will be cooler than West TX. Another thing I can promise and have promised to my wife is no more oil business and the area’s we’re looking are distanced from active fields.
40 years ago a drilling manager that retired said he was going to put a bit on the front of his car and drive until somebody asked him what it was.
The Mafia in my part of the business in Houston has been eating its own in the last few years. Be grateful the Permian is doing well.
The drilling manager actually had a place at Fredericksburg, not a place I ever pined for or understood (none of the whole Hill Country thing ever caught my attention). He said he was going to get a little drillling rig model and put it outside near his patio. He said he would get up, fix his coffee and then go outside to relieve himself off the patio onto the drilling rig model. Never could understand that since I loved the oilfield from the first day I started work at Fort Stockton. You should never do anything you hate that much though I was sick and tired of all the mess in Houston.