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A Crock of Schmidt

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Retraining: A False Hope

July 20, 2021 by acrockofschmidt 4 Comments

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Now that’s an idiom I’ve not experienced in a long time. Until I did. Twice in the past three months, in fact. I guess I was due. Hey, we all need a little humbling every now and again. The first recalibration of my self-importance came […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: jobs, layoffs, oil patch, retraining, school

My New Sticker Collection

February 16, 2021 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

That there above? That’s my new sticker collection. I just started it in November and already I have seven stickers. Seven dull, rather unimaginative, digital stickers, though I must admit the pseudo-teardrop of the Microsoft stickers is at least pretending to try. Hey, it’s better than IBM’s square! Although, come to think of it, a […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: certification, IBM, jobs, Microsoft, retraining

The Return Intern

September 10, 2019 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I have a fantastic idea. It’s a self-serving idea, to be sure, but I believe it to be fantastic nonetheless. I haven’t looked for a job in nearly fifteen years. I haven’t had a job for more than ten of those. But kids age and spouses lose jobs. So like a fledgling, I awkwardly tumbled […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Calgary, intern, jobs, oil patch, stay-at-home parents, student

I Am Albertan and I Am Angry!

April 14, 2019 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

  I am Albertan and I am angry!  Really, really angry!  Incredible Hulk in cowboy boots and white Stetson angry! The code of allegiance to the True Alberta Residents Syndicate and Social Society, or TARSandSS, requires that I say that.  If I don’t, I risk being branded a traitor and hung, as some of my […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, boom, Canada, jobs, oil, oilsands

There’s No Vaccine for Layoffs

March 4, 2019 by acrockofschmidt 6 Comments

You think you’re immune, until you discover you aren’t. In February 1995, god that’s nearly thirty years ago, I grew up in a hurry.  Or at least my budding work persona did.  I was one of five wide-eyed geology students freshly fallen from the Ontario turnip truck in the early weeks of eight month, co-op, […]

Filed Under: Deep Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, jobs, layoffs, NotAngryAB, oil patch

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