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Dbtexasag@yahoo.com

Good morning all,

I'm trying to help a class of '17 Engineering grad make some connections for a job in the Denver area. He is a great kid (good enough that I approve of him dating my daughter, who is also an Ag) and is currently working for a shipbuilder in Newport News. They want to relocate to the Denver area but neither of them are on TexAgs. He is an Ocean Engineering grad, but obviously isn't tied to maritime work (as there are no oceans in Denver) and is happy with a civil/mechanical engineering position.

If you can be of any help, please let me know and I'll put him in touch with you asap.

Thanks,

Brandt '92
oldag92 at gmail

I realize you are trying to help but if I'm hiring someone I want to deal with them directly. I want them making the effort and showing initiative, I don't want to go through mom & dad.

Obviously that is a given - he is working his network hard but because he is 22, his network is pretty small. I'm just looking for contacts to pass along to him. The same I would do for any colleague or friend who is already a professional like myself

Really?

It's called the Aggie Network for a reason. Come on man.

OldAg,

Denver has a ton of engineering. However, a lot of it is in the oil and gas space. I would check with Encana, Anadarko, Zap (which was mentioned earlier) Cator Ruma, Carrolo , the list goes on and on.

My email is above and I work in the electrical equipment space here in Denver. However, the jobs are plentiful right now throughout the front range.

Thanks a ton. I'll pass your email address along to him. Appreciate the suggestions very much

I'm relocating from Dallas to Denver in April for a new job, he can send me resume/cover letter to
pilot (at) aggienetwork (dot) com.

I'm a civil PE, I'll see if our firm has any openings.

Welcome to Denver!

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Welcome to Denver!

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Thank you! My wife and I are really excited to be closer to family and the mountains. I'll be working in the Tech Center so any housing location recommendations are appreciated. We will lease for a year and then buy something. We have a big dog so a yard would be awesome.

Thanks, Pilot. I'll send him your contact info.

-B

Centennial, Parker, and Highlands Ranch are all good communities close to DTC

Or castle pines if you have it in your budget.

Hello!

I've recently left an Oil & Gas giant in Houston for employment in Denver.

I have 3 years of experience in the industry as a facilities engineer and would like to continue working as an engineer in Denver. Any advice and guidance in the right direction would be great. Thanks!

Check out UE Compression in Henderson near the airport. No contacts or leads but they are doing a lot of packaging for O&G.

thanks!

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thanks!

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We are looking for a Facilities Engineer at Centennial Resources in Denver, great company!

I did apply there recently but haven't heard back. I'll keep checking their website for new opportunities. Thank you!

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Hello!

I've recently left an Oil & Gas giant in Houston for employment in Denver.

I have 3 years of experience in the industry as a facilities engineer and would like to continue working as an engineer in Denver. Any advice and guidance in the right direction would be great. Thanks!

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Send me your resume. Email in profile.

We moved here a year ago. Daughter just started high school. Husband works in downtown so we chose to go west, off 6. He didn't want to drive I25 at all. We live in Lakewood and it has been great!

I've been here since September 30. Currently driving Uber/Lyft full time and looking for a regular job still. I graduated Agribusiness in 2010. My background includes an accounting job at a coal mine and a logistics type job at a sugar beet operation. Also an Army veteran from before college. Any leads are appreciated. Thanks.

Has anyone made the move from Houston to Denver recently? I've got a possible opportunity to make the move with an international company wanting someone to open up a denver office to build a us operations platform.

I'm 40 and have three young boys (7,5 & 2). We live in West Houston. Our current neighborhood is great for young families and very involved. While considering the move, I'm most concerned about leaving behind a close knit community and not being able to replicate that. Any thoughts?

Trying to understand what you are asking here.

You don't think Denver will have tight knit communities? The suburbs in Denver are awesome. It's a small proud city. I have been here since 2006 with a small time in Wyoming in 2008-2011. The kids will love it here. Skiing, outdoor activities, hiking, biking, etc.

Cost of living isn't that different. Schools are great.

Traffic is beginning to suck, but I wouldn't change the move I made for the world. I live in Highlands Ranch close to several Ags.

Denver will be what you make it. A lot of people will trash it because of the politics. Don't let the legalized weed freak you or the family out.

Colorado is beautiful and mild except for a few winters days. The choice knowing what I know now about Denver would be a no brained. Pack your **** up and hit the road.

As stated, pack your 4x4 SUV, go buy a second one for your wife, hitch up the U-Haul and get your realtor to help you find a 4-bdr in Highlands Ranch 80129 within walking distance of the elementary school. Don't spend another second worrying about it. Your kids will love it.

But, do plan for your move back to Houston after the first winter, after the two year mark when your wife still hasn't made any friends, and after the four year mark when you get laid off.

Between now and then, get season lift tickets and enjoy your time in Denver. And be sure to bring extra cash. And be sure to get a 303 cell phone number so you don't look like a newb.

Some tips from someone that made the move from Houston to Denver with a stop in Amarillo along the way.


Buy a south facing house. :Thought we don't get a ton of snow every year, there are at least one to two times a year I complain about my north farting driveway and curb that retains snow/ice longer than my neighbors.

Highlands Ranch is a great place to raise a family. I know there was a lot of satire in the previous post, but if you can't make friends in HR, you aren't really trying. You (and your kids) will find friends in the neighborhoods, school, church, sports groups, etc.

This is a fantastic place to live. There are some negatives, but the positives definitely dwarf the negatives. Some cons (in my opinion):

-The politics are blue and getting bluer. Certain portions of the Front Range haven't met a tax they don't like.
- The occasional snobbery from the natives to transplants. While most people are great, when you meet one of these examples, you'll understand why some natives are seen as unwelcoming.
- The commutes are getting worse, but still nothing compared to Houston or Dallas

I'm sure I'll think of a few more, but really, this is a great place to live. If you like the outdoors, many entertainment/recreation options, 4 real seasons, little to no bugs, then you'll not regret the choice to move. We had a great community and lots of family when left Houston. We won't be going back anytime soon.

If your concern is moving your young family period, I get it. But as between Denver and Houston, there is no comparison in quality of life. People in Denver complain about (a) traffic on 4-lane highways that still go 35-40 mph in rush hour and (b) 90+ degree days in summer. Not to mention the BIG difference in property taxes and quality public schools all but mitigate the state income tax.

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But, do plan for your move back to Houston after the first winter, after the two year mark when your wife still hasn't made any friends, and after the four year mark when you get laid off.

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Hah, so at year 2 for us in CO, my wife still had no friends, and I got laid off in summer 3..

Now in year 7, we're still here, we both have a better job than ever, and we have 6 families on our street alone with 13 kids under 6 between us all that we see on pretty regular basis.

Moral of the story, don't get sucked back to TX with poor excuses.

Edit; I also still have my 979 cell number

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Buy a south facing house. :Thought we don't get a ton of snow every year, there are at least one to two times a year I complain about my north farting driveway and curb that retains snow/ice longer than my neighbors.



-The politics are blue and getting bluer. Certain portions of the Front Range haven't met a tax they don't like.

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Or better yet, buy an east facing house with open space behind your west facing backyard (or vice versa) and have the snow melt in your front and backyard. The only snow I have stick around for long periods of time are on the sides of my house (since the neighbors are close)

Every place is getting bluer because metros are always blue and eventually the metro pop. in every state will outnumber the rural/burbs.

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Thriller said:

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Buy a south facing house. :Thought we don't get a ton of snow every year, there are at least one to two times a year I complain about my north farting driveway and curb that retains snow/ice longer than my neighbors.



-The politics are blue and getting bluer. Certain portions of the Front Range haven't met a tax they don't like.

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Or better yet, buy an east facing house with open space behind your west facing backyard (or vice versa) and have the snow melt in your front and backyard. The only snow I have stick around for long periods of time are on the sides of my house (since the neighbors are close)

Every place is getting bluer because metros are always blue and eventually the metro pop. in every state will outnumber the rural/burbs.

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That may be so, but Colorado is becoming blue at a very rapid clip. The politics of the state are definitely something to watch for people coming from Texas, especially if they have a conservative mindset coming in.

There are pockets of the metro area that are more conservative (Douglas County, etc) but Boulder and Denver are rapidly becoming very, very liberal - Boulder is already there. Denver isn't far behind.

I thought boulder and Denver have been blue for decades? Jeffco too.

Doug co is red as they come.

see the results of the CO-6 election flipping from R to D.

Both branches of the state leg, governor, etc. Denver proper has been blue - I should have clarified Denver metro.

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see the results of the CO-6 election flipping from R to D.

Both branches of the state leg, governor, etc. Denver proper has been blue - I should have clarified Denver metro.

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Easy to exaggerate that flip. Jason Crow (D) was a great candidate and is good man. Anyone that can be color blind wants him representing them.

Both were good men - I'm not taking anything away from Crow. I just lean right and he leans left. Regardless, flipping a congressional district is a further sign that metro Denver is becoming more blue. That's my only point.

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But, do plan for your move back to Houston after the first winter, after the two year mark when your wife still hasn't made any friends, and after the four year mark when you get laid off.

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Hah, so at year 2 for us in CO, my wife still had no friends, and I got laid off in summer 3..

Now in year 7, we're still here, we both have a better job than ever, and we have 6 families on our street alone with 13 kids under 6 between us all that we see on pretty regular basis.

Moral of the story, don't get sucked back to TX with poor excuses.

Edit; I also still have my 979 cell number

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Imagine if you had a 303 number? You probably would have made friends faster

Seriously though, when I wrote that post, my thoughts were totally joking/not joking. I did want the poster I was replying to to know that a lot of times it doesn't work out. And if it does work out, it frequently doesn't workout the way you planned it.

When I moved to Denver from Austin, I met a lot of Texans (let's say 20+ that I was close with). Literally, all of them except for 3 were gone within 4 years. Those three who I'm still friends with, have struggled. In fact, one of them just got laid off last week. I really wanted Colorado to work out but, it didn't. I was a hard pipe hitter before I moved to Denver and I wasn't willing to do "pay to play" to remain in Denver. Getting laid off was the event that triggered my move to Los Angeles and it only took weeks/months, not years, to have a full social agenda in LA with loads of friends (as much as anybody in LA can really be your friend anyway - everyone in SoCal is flaky AF). Personally, I thought a lot of people's reasons for moving back to Texas so quickly were B.S. but, it does happen.

On a side note - I sure do miss my 818 number from LA.

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Jules: Just over the hill here, over by the Burbank studios. Look man, if Jimmie's ass ain't home I don't know what the **** we going to do man, cause I don't got no other partners in 818.

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Good Luck!

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62strat said:

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But, do plan for your move back to Houston after the first winter, after the two year mark when your wife still hasn't made any friends, and after the four year mark when you get laid off.

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Hah, so at year 2 for us in CO, my wife still had no friends, and I got laid off in summer 3..

Now in year 7, we're still here, we both have a better job than ever, and we have 6 families on our street alone with 13 kids under 6 between us all that we see on pretty regular basis.

Moral of the story, don't get sucked back to TX with poor excuses.

Edit; I also still have my 979 cell number

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Imagine if you had a 303 number? You probably would have made friends faster

Seriously though, when I wrote that post, my thoughts were totally joking/not joking. I did want the poster I was replying to to know that a lot of times it doesn't work out. And if it does work out, it frequently doesn't workout the way you planned it.

When I moved to Denver from Austin, I met a lot of Texans (let's say 20+ that I was close with). Literally, all of them except for 3 were gone within 4 years. Those three who I'm still friends with, have struggled. In fact, one of them just got laid off last week. I really wanted Colorado to work out but, it didn't. I was a hard pipe hitter before I moved to Denver and I wasn't willing to do "pay to play" to remain in Denver. Getting laid off was the event that triggered my move to Los Angeles and it only took weeks/months, not years, to have a full social agenda in LA with loads of friends (as much as anybody in LA can really be your friend anyway - everyone in SoCal is flaky AF). Personally, I thought a lot of people's reasons for moving back to Texas so quickly were B.S. but, it does happen.

On a side note - I sure do miss my 818 number from LA.

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Jules: Just over the hill here, over by the Burbank studios. Look man, if Jimmie's ass ain't home I don't know what the **** we going to do man, cause I don't got no other partners in 818.

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Good Luck!

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I think the two main things for some leaving CO and going back 'home' is family and their fondness of where they came from.

We don't really have either. My bro lives in CA (for 10 years now), my wife's sister lives in KS (her whole life), wife's mom is KS, her dad is Conroe, but we rarely saw him when we lived in Tomball. My parents are Houston, but are retired and traveling a bunch and come see us all the time.

And, we didn't like TX. Traffic, size, heat, etc. We didn't only come to CO cause I wanted to live in CO, we left TX because I didn't like TX. We were leaving TX whether we came to CO or not. We considered OK and MO, but CO won over those two.


Everyone's situation is different I suppose. You have to want to sever your ties with TX. Not just want to come live here cause you want to ski a few times one winter, or see snow.

If you like your life in TX, but want to 'try' CO because it's trendy, or you like the novelty of a new place, then yeh, plan to be back in 2-5 years.