The oil boom....$$$$

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I called on accounts in Las Cruces in mid-90s.

Dec 11, 2019, 3:24 PM

It's depressing. It never ceased to amaze me that the price of gas was easily double that of what it was in Rock Hill at the time, yet I could watch rigs pumping oil out of the ground while I was filling up the gas tank on my rental car there. I was based out of Artesia, NM where the biggest industry in town was a refinery, and everything smelled like chemicals all the time. It's downright appetizing when you go out to eat.

The other thing that was a little shocking were the Apache casinos. They're supposed to be money makers for the tribe, but 99% of the people I saw spending what looked like the last quarters to their names WERE Apache. I've never been asked so many times in one place if I had a cigarette I could spare as inside an Apache casino in New Mexico. And if you ever drove by the reservation, it made you think just how easy the people living in third world sub-Saharan Africa actually have it.

There are some gorgeous places there, but the level of poverty in that state is an absolutely stunning thing to see in person. It's the only place I've ever seen a Burger King and Ford dealership in a town shuttered and abandoned. I heard on the news one night in my hotel room that 11 of 33 counties did not have a dentist living in the county. High schools were shutting down during the school year because people were moving out at an alarming rate and they couldn't afford to keep them open.

Maybe things have gotten better there, but it was literally a third world county back when I was working out there.

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a few corporate offices were located there, but the bulk of my time was spent in the square of Roswell across to Truth Or Consequences, down to Las Cruces, and back across to Carlsbad with the Mescalero Apache reservation right smack in the middle of it all. There was no money there, and we struggled to deliver what we promised because the dolt we had hired for business development FAR over-promised the telephone company we contracted with. If I'd been on commission, I would have jumped a flight and come home after the first week. I stuck it out because I was on salary, but once I saw where the aforementioned business development dolt had relationships, I got the heck out of sales. Some of my co-workers went to areas in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma that were only slightly better off. Needless to say...that dolt is long gone, and we've long since gotten out of those markets.

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But the people are so carefree and happy, unburdened

I tell you what, I spent some time in Las Cruces and I can

I called on accounts in Las Cruces in mid-90s.

yep, one of the prettiest states and one of the saddest.

I had a few accounts in Albuquerque and Santa Fe because

Re: I had a few accounts in Albuquerque and Santa Fe because

The amount of money the oil industry spends is amazing.

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You know what an oil strike looks like?

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Re: The oil boom....$$$$

Think what it would be in the Saudis weren't

Re: Think what it would be in the Saudis weren't

Nah, that shale and stuff we are getting it

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