A Semi-Professional Memoir: My Epic Failure to Achieve Self-Actualization after 40 Years of Reservoir Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry. This humorous memoir takes the reader on a completely unnecessary journey through the author’s 40-year struggle to transcend his career as a petroleum reservoir engineer and Become Something Moore. The easy-to-read essays and short … Continue reading Plugged & Abandoned
Month: September 2022
31 Flavors of Career Guidance
My first reservoir engineering experience occurred when Phillip knocked the spigot off the Moa-Moa punch dispenser. It was a hot July night in 1975, my high-school sophomore year, and I had a summer job in a small Baskin Robbins ice cream shop in east Tulsa. Phillip and I were handling the after-movie crowd, scooping orders … Continue reading 31 Flavors of Career Guidance
A Fortune of Reversal
“Today was Bob’s ninety-first birthday, and he was fifty-seven years old.” The leaving-of-age story of Robert Dodd, who at age seventy-eight discovered he had stopped aging and was growing younger every day. After medical science confirmed his “condition” and the news was made public, Bob reluctantly endured the significant drama that accompanied his fifteen minutes … Continue reading A Fortune of Reversal