Information/opinions on moving to Denver

[tkuss]

I am looking for a little advice from some fellow snowesters. I understand this is a snowmobile site, so this may not be welcome here, but I feel like I could get some quality advice or opinions. so...

I am 24 yrs old, currently living in northern Wisconsin, graduated college roughly a year ago with a degree in environmental engineering. I had a temporary engineering job coming out of college which just ended.

So as of the last week I am jobless, I am currently on the hunt for a quality job and have been wanting to move out to/near the mountains for a while. I am thinking of just packing up and heading out to Denver, get a ****ty temporary position somewhere to help pay the bills, and continue my job search while living there.

So I guess overall I am looking for a few opinions. Good idea/bad idea?? Where would be a good area in the city/suburbs to look for a place to stay? Perhaps someone would even have an idea on where to get a quick job out there, that while there I can continue my search for a real job.

Any thoughts/opinions would be very much appreciated.

 

[milo303]

Depends on how much money you have sitting in the bank, and how much your monthly bills are....

I came to Denver about 5 years ago with about 7k to my name and everything was paid for... I landed a place to stay for a couple hundred a month while I searched for work and it worked out for me. I love it here, and have now bought my first home in Littleton.

With that, I'm not sure what your lifestyle is like but I've lived in wash park, and cap hill and chose to buy a home in Littleton.

With your education, I'm going to guess you want to be near downtown to offer a higher chance of finding work? I'd search around craigslist for a roommate needed ad and start there.

People move to Denver without jobs all the time and it works out, but don't think you're going to land out here and score a killer job right off the bat.... You're going to need to be willing to get in somewhere and work your way up most likely. If you're ok with that and you can swallow the idea of not landing the career job right out of the gate then you'll make it in Denver.

Denver is an awesome city, I love it here

 

[Dogmeat]

I am looking for a little advice from some fellow snowesters. I understand this is a snowmobile site, so this may not be welcome here, but I feel like I could get some quality advice or opinions. so...

I am 24 yrs old, currently living in northern Wisconsin, graduated college roughly a year ago with a degree in environmental engineering. I had a temporary engineering job coming out of college which just ended.

So as of the last week I am jobless, I am currently on the hunt for a quality job and have been wanting to move out to/near the mountains for a while. I am thinking of just packing up and heading out to Denver, get a ****ty temporary position somewhere to help pay the bills, and continue my job search while living there.

So I guess overall I am looking for a few opinions. Good idea/bad idea?? Where would be a good area in the city/suburbs to look for a place to stay? Perhaps someone would even have an idea on where to get a quick job out there, that while there I can continue my search for a real job.

Any thoughts/opinions would be very much appreciated.

There is still a fair bit of oilfield activity going on in the DJ basin ... I think with an EnvE degree you could likley find work for an environmental consulting firm or the like, but its a competitive market out here..... What experience do you have post-grad with your temp job? Anything oilfield related?

EnvE is a pretty broad degree, you don't have to go oilfield obviously but I'm a bit biased .... It does tend to pay the best.

Honestly, with an EnvE degree .... what I'd do if I were you and wanted to move to Denver is try to hire on with one of the big oilfield service companies (Halliburto, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, etc) .... go to work as a Frac or Cement enginner, logging enginner, whatever .... be prepared to work your *** of in the field for 3-4 years, but if you do well after that is when it'll pay off for you. I spent 5 years in the field in Utah after I graduated ... loved it ... and just moved to Denver last summer. Good news is, about all you gotta do to get hired on with one of the service companies is have any engineering degree, they'll train you on the rest .... just gotta be willing to work your tail off. Getting hired on with an actual oil company, especially the ones operating in the DJ is a different story .... those jobs are a lot harder to come by.

I'd say in all honest start looking at the big oilfield service companies .... worked out pretty well for me in the end

 

[Abindl]

Hey man, Just moved to Denver from south central Wisco my self. I was sick of only making it out here two weeks out of the year to take care of my snowmobile/ powder problem. I left my house for sale there; packed up the trailer an headed west... I have a Construction Management/ Business Management degree. I took about 3 months to find a "good" job that could sustain rent here and pay a mortgage in Wis; not to mention my bad habit of dirt biking every weekend! Opportunities are out here, you just have to do some digging.
I would say do it now before it's too late....

 

[LabRat]

I did something similar at about that same age but back in the mid 90's when jobs were plentiful. From SW part of Wisconsin.....man, there's a lot of us out here. I'm an electrical engineer, and immediately got a GREAT job. Been getting better and better since.

 

[800xtreme]

If you'd like, give me a call sometime. I would be happy to help you as best I can. I am a real estate broker in Northern Colorado (Fort Collins) but I have a lot of connections in the Denver area. I just had a client very similar to you - engineering degree, just graduated college. He moved to Loveland and had competing job offers right away. I have 3 other friends who are engineers as well. One is a manager of a larger firm who may be able to get you in.

Have you considered Northern Colorado? Loveland, Fort Collins, Windsor, etc? 90 min to the Snowies baby . This area is very healthy with jobs and growth.

It has always been a blast helping fellow sledders...just let me know what I can do for you.

jlaner@thegroupinc.com

970-672-7212

 

[jfox1995]

800xtreme,

I am thinking of doing the same thing except I have a slightly different situation. I work in Atlanta and currently commute to MN each week when I am off. I am fortunate enough to be able to pretty much live wherever I want as it is easy to commute to work each week, so I don't have to worry about work.

My question for you since you are in tune with real-estate in the area. I would prefer to be within an hour of the airport since I fly out each week. I also want to get at least 10 acres of land to build on. What area's would you point me towards that meet that criteria?

I plan to purchase land within the next year and it would be nice to help out a fellow sledder if I can by working with you.

Thanks in advance for any info,
Jim

 

[LabRat]

jfox....
You may want to narrow it a bit. 10 acres is easy out east, and certainly SE of the metro area, and can be very close to the airport. NE is likely easy to get as well, I'm just not as familiar with it. 1 hour is a big range, as I'm in Conifer, and it's exactly 1 hour to the airport for me. Quite a bit of land up around here as well. So, you can can have your pick of living at over 8k feet in the mtns, or down on the plains. A major difference that you may want to consider. Not saying one's better than the other....just a pretty big first choice you can work through with your family if applicable.

 

[jfox1995]

I would prefer west or northwest of the airport towards the mountains. We are not really interested in flat land...have that where we live now.

Thanks for the info,
Jim