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Can you make a living in the oil business and stay warm and clean? The life of Ron – Part 5I’m an Oil Man again:
I told the partner for whom I worked that I wanted to leave Price-Waterhouse. He was the senior partner on the Gulf Oil audit and immediately sent me to meet the corporation’s Audit Director. He and I got along very well and I soon joined Gulf as one of four “Corporate Auditors.” Ours was a unique group. We rarely did financial audits. Instead, we were an operations audit group. As such, our area of responsibility was the entire worldwide Gulf Oil corporate entity. I later learned that one of the reasons they hired me was because of my Chinese language skills. Who would’a thought? During the next four years I traveled the world. I was sent on audits in Singapore because of my Chinese Language skills. On the way home I stopped off in London. I traveled throughout Asia, the US and Central America. I spent more time traveling than at home. While in Asia I was away from home for more than seven weeks without returning. I was having fun, was successful, and my marriage was getting even worse. After five years, another defining moment came along. I applied for a senior management position with an independent oil company that was headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts. The company was owned by a man with a reputation for firing executives on a moment’s notice. I went there as the Controller with a six month employment guarantee and survived four years, rising to the position of Vice President of Finance before escaping. Our main operations were in New Orleans, Louisiana and Houston and Laredo, Texas, not Massachusetts. I spent most of my first two years in those cities, returning to Massachusetts for a few days or weeks at a time. Finally I moved the family once again. This time we moved to a New Orleans suburb and were there another two years. Next I took a job in Dallas and moved the family here. It was the last move we made as a family. These were troubled times in the oil industry and in the next three years I worked for two different companies, one of which was in Kansas City. At the first of these companies I met the woman who would become my “May” several years later. We’re getting closer. It won’t be long till May meets December. Stay tuned. Don’t want to miss a word? Subscribe to our RSS feed now. We’re getting closer. It won’t be long till May meets December. Stay tuned. Don’t want to miss a word? Subscribe to our blog now. Know somebody in relationship with an age difference? Or someone who could benefit from relationship tips, tricks, and tools? Some secrets are meant to be shared!  Pass it on…. Read Part 1 of Ron’s Story You might also like: |
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