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Old 09-17-2013, 10:35 AM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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"Since the bottom of the recession, the Houston metro area has grown by 309,100 jobs, or 201.9% of the 153,100 jobs lost during the recession. No other major U.S. metro has exceeded its previous employment peak by a larger proportion.”

"Harvey says Houston is hiring across the board--but there’s “definitely an emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math),” he says. “That includes professionals in finance, medical professionals, and certainly the engineering community.”

The Best and Worst Cities for Jobs This Fall - Yahoo Finance


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Old 09-17-2013, 06:07 PM
 
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Key word; professionals.

Another thing Houston is synonymous with; low wage service sector work.
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Old 09-17-2013, 06:16 PM
 
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I'm just gonna say it. It's been a hellish day so I'm in a mood but honestly if Houston is jobs we're not getting the top tier people. If this board is anything to go by sure people take pay cuts and are budgeting and with our property taxes and stuff but still but the type of housing budgets people ask for help about doesn't ring STEM sector people. Nothing wrong with that but I'm just saying.


We're kind of getting more MA/PCA types over RN to MD salary types. Just as a medical example that give you a gist of salary. $70-100k+++ folks not in droves.
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Old 09-17-2013, 07:02 PM
 
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I'm tired of hearing "Houston is job"
The more we push that, the faster that's going to change to "Houston is chaos"
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Old 09-17-2013, 07:10 PM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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Key word; professionals.

Another thing Houston is synonymous with; low wage service sector work.
Did you even read the article? Lol ,theres nothing low wage about oil and gas or the Medical Industry, or Law industry. There are jobs right now in the oil/gas industry that are hiring for what is essentially a laborer that start out paying $55,000. Of course if you have no education your job prospects are low. If you're going to troll, just stay in the California forum.

Local College Creates Training Center For Oil Jobs - Houston weather, traffic, news | FOX 26 | MyFoxHouston
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Old 09-17-2013, 07:40 PM
 
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I'm just gonna say it. It's been a hellish day so I'm in a mood but honestly if Houston is jobs we're not getting the top tier people. If this board is anything to go by sure people take pay cuts and are budgeting and with our property taxes and stuff but still but the type of housing budgets people ask for help about doesn't ring STEM sector people. Nothing wrong with that but I'm just saying.


We're kind of getting more MA/PCA types over RN to MD salary types. Just as a medical example that give you a gist of salary. $70-100k+++ folks not in droves.
I've thought about this, and I think the reason this board skews toward the lower income transplants is because lower income jobs tend to offer less orientation to their transplants. My wife and I moved here because she got a job as a humanities professor at a community college. We just just felt lucky enough to have any kind of a job in the humanities that she was quick to accept, but the job itself is not particularly "perk"y; it came with no travel money and little in the way of "new city" orientation. Compare that to a comparable position at a university, and you're likely to have faculty give you tours of neighborhoods in your price range, near the university, etc... People use this board when they don't have anywhere else to turn, and that's why we're such a motley crew!
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Old 09-17-2013, 07:47 PM
 
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Did you even read the article? Lol ,theres nothing low wage about oil and gas or the Medical Industry, or Law industry. There are jobs right now in the oil/gas industry that are hiring for what is essentially a laborer that start out paying $55,000. Of course if you have no education your job prospects are low. If you're going to troll, just stay in the California forum.

Local College Creates Training Center For Oil Jobs - Houston weather, traffic, news | FOX 26 | MyFoxHouston
Skilled labor, professional usually make up the total people that are benefiting the most from the economic boom. And I think that the local college creating a training center for oil jobs is a great start to get people not benefiting from the boom into it. I think that is exactly what the city should focus on doing.

Besides the two types I listed, job prospects are still pretty bland. The point wasn't to troll but that the hype around Houston should be put into context. I've also posted up several articles that say wages are up, job growth is up but so is poverty in Houston. Why? Because a huge chunk of the growth are low wage jobs. At the lower end, it's just like the rest of the country (proly worse considering the bad services in TX).

So quit with the troll accusations and just accept the fact that the Houston boosters aren't telling the whole story. Houston's success is a bit more nuanced that you're making it out to be.
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Old 09-17-2013, 10:36 PM
 
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Yes please send me all these jobs that start out at 55k I have a long list of people looking for work lol
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Old 09-18-2013, 08:07 AM
 
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Saudi Arabia is synonymous with jobs. not sure if we want that
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Old 09-19-2013, 03:19 PM
 
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The article is from 2011 but pretty sums up the other half if the story.

Like I've been saying I knew there was a reason why Forbes and all those other financial rags are praising TX but not other states faring well.

Also why the only people that seem to buy the hype are the people most benefitting from the boom; skilled laborers and professionals in the right industries. I love Texas needs to face facts instead of just embracing right wing jingoism and telling the people not faring well to tough it up.

Why Texas is the China of the West | Mother Jones
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