Why don't you want an oil job?

Posted by jamess — 14 January 2011 at 12:13pm - Comments
The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in f
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The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in front of world's worst oil spill)

Want to be this man? Apparently not.

Yesterday someone pointed me to an article on the BBC lamenting the drop in young brains chasing jobs in the dirty oil sector. It seems that having lost the battle for our hearts many moons ago, the oil industry has now officially lost the battle for our minds, too.

I had a giggle reading that the oil companies want to rebuild their image to "halt the drift of graduates towards renewables". As if clean, green energy is the new 'red threat'.

Anyway, here's a Friday challenge to speed the hours to the weekend: tell us what turns you off a job with Big Oil.

Tweet on the hashtag #oilturnsmeoff or add a comment below.

Students beware: the oil recruiters are watching. 

UPDATE: Thanks to @lucypearceox for highlighting a great report on British Universities and Big Oil by friends at Platform, Corporate Watch and the New Economics Foundation. It's still relevant.

 

It's illogical and slightly immoral to get a job in the oil industry I feel.

Oil = finite resource. The economy is built upon the infinite exploitation of this, and other, finite resources. That's a really really daft idea.

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