My husband's nephew started working as a landman about a year ago for a firm that was contracted to do work for Chesapeake up in Tarrant County, Texas. He was let go about 3 weeks ago because of a suppossed lack of work. He has sent out resumes to different firms all over the country trying to get on anywhere as a landman but has not had any success as of yet. At the time that he was hired, he had just graduated college and got into the business because a lot of his friends had been hired as landmen. The majority of his friends have also been let go and are currently looking for work. The reason that he got into this business was because the pay was so good for someone just out of school.

I began to wonder about how many landmen there are in Louisiana (and also across the countryfor that matter) that are currently out of work and looking for jobs? My guess is that if the industry does come back, there will not be a need for the amount of landmen that were needed in 2007/2008.

Any information or thoughts that anyone can provide so that I can pass onto to him would be appreciated.

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As always... Good solid answers that tell it like it is.

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