From facebook, oil people helping oil people. Kelly, thanks for asking me to put a blurb on oil people helping oil people. I will tell my story and in another post about my business plans. Kelly, if I got too carried away just let me know and I will delete the posts and trim it up.
I owned an oilfield company that I started 10 years ago. I built that company from 1 employee, me, to, in 2014 when I employed 32 employees. By 2015 I was down to 8 employees. Long story short, in 2016 I was terminated and found myself without a job and in financial difficulty. Of course I do have some attitude as anybody does that gets fired unexpectedly but I would not change anything I have done in the last 10 years. I love the challenge of the business world and I have learned more than one could ever expect to learn in 10 years. I also currently have quite a few mentors that have been through this oilfield crap before too and also online mentors I have followed for years.
I kept very quiet the first 2 months after I was terminated. It was very embarrassing to me and my family to be in this situation at our age. My wife and I are very well known in Brooks and area, my wife more so than I as she was born here. After a couple of months I got over the poor me crap and did as I always have, decided to come out swinging.
I had a meeting with my family members, my bro who had worked for me for 6 years and my son who was there with me from the start even though he was a youngster. All three of us were shitcanned from my company at the same time. We went to a few family members and a couple of friends and we have raised just enough capital to bootstrap a haying business with some old equipment.
I have built a business before, made more mistakes than you can imagine and now I expect to build another, make even bigger mistakes, and employ way more people this time. There are people out there that will call BS on my goals, but very seldom do I miss my goals when I put them on paper and put my mind to them.
I have complete confidence my family and I will come out of this smelling like roses but some days the roses smell more like s**t. My family is not alone and probably in better shape than some because we have so much support from my family, friends and the community.
My advice to others in the same situation?
Do not be afraid to ask for help. There is a ton of good people out there.
Do not be embarrassed, even the most successful have their rough patches. Most come away from it as better people and even more successful.
Get over the poor me syndrome as fast as possible. Then 10x your effort to find a job, get a hustle going or start a business. Money is very important but effort tops money every time.
Sorry for the long old speech but sometimes it just pours out 😁
