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0 pointsblindhippo13y ago0 comments

I struggle with this - I know exactly the difference between being in the industry vs doing local start-ups. Start-ups are more fun and I can usually forgive the pay inequity (it's about 20-30k per year less in normalized salary).

If I could put up with the O&G corporate environment I'd be all over it - but I do prefer natural light in my work environment and an interesting problem domain over a flourescent lit grey cubicle on the 12th floor of some sky scraper and another well analysis application.

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avenger12313y ago· 1 in thread

Agreed with your sentiments.

It's much better to work on contract with the oil and gas firms. In this way you will definitely be in the 100K-180K range (at a minimum). It also offset's the domain issue a bit as you can move around.

Usually the start-ups are working on product that relates to oil and gas anyways.

How do you find these startups?

blindhippoOP13y ago

I largely find them through networking connections - I know a bunch of people in the "start up" community and subscribe to a few networking mailing lists.

Digital Alberta and Pints & Pixels are both good sources for information.

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