<p>TXAggie92 : Austin,Tx ?
I thought you went to TAMU</p>
<p>You are correct I do go to A&M. I’ve lived in Austin my whole life though, I believe I joined the site back before I left for college and haven’t gotten around to changing my location to my current location.</p>
<p>If you don’t get a job, it is your own fault. Now, I am not as saavy as the rest of the guys on numbers and what the stats are for PE’s, but I do know you can make the proper contacts & get a job without internships.</p>
<p>I have worked on a drilling rig for 5 years(land) and I know for a fact if you are too dumb to be an engineer. You can take your degree and become a company man. As a company man you are in charge of the hole & report to a drilling engineer if you can’t figure out what to do on your own.</p>
<p>Now… having a PE degree does not mean you know everything that a company man needs to know. Company men are field hands that worked their way up (for the most part). So they know what is going on above ground, where you would be lost… Hell I have even met a company man that wasn’t even a PE… he was a ME!!!. but this gave him the knowledge of the pumps, motors, and all the equipment… (although he was paired with an old oilfield hand who knew what was going on downhole.)</p>
<p>Join SPE, & Join AADE. Go to the meetings. Meet with people there. Don’t kiss any ass just go & talk with the people. PE’s In my opinion are the rebels of the engineers. Because you have to work with people that are pretty grungy… & yes some of them only have an 8th grade education…lol I was working with this derrickhand(hell of a worker) who filled out a safety card & he spelled chemicals cimicals or something… I laughed for days.</p>
<p>If you are worried about setting yourself apart from the rest of your class or the rest of the country… go work on a rig. They will love you & respect you… I had a guy who was a big wig at WWC in lafayette tell me ***** a GPA… If you have experience you will get hired in a heartbeat. (now this doesn’t mean think you are the ***** when you have a 2.0 gpa or lower)</p>
<p>But I will bet you anything that anyone who is a PE & is doing the hiring will put you light years above a dorky engineering student with a 3.6.</p>
<p>In fact (for you guys at TAMU) I worked from Mexia, to Buffalo, Jewett to Marquezto franklin drilling for a company called Gastar. One of the owners wasa professor at TAMU (Gene Beck) & graduated from LSU. If you get in good with him, he can put you on a trinidad rig (if they are still leasing one) during your breaks. Because he did that for one of his students…</p>