Your Main Challenges: Becoming an independent landman is an exciting career choice, but it also brings with it a unique set of challenges. Here are five of the biggest hurdles you’ll need to tackle as you establish your own business. 1. Breaking Out on Your Own Breaking out on your own can be a tough […]
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Burning Bridges We’ve all been there before. Somebody does or says something that really pisses you off. Maybe they let you down, threw you under the bus, screwed you on a deal, or are just being an asshole. Your first reaction is “fuck that guy(or girl)!” It’s a natural response when you feel like someone
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Talking About Health We spend more time talking about “how important it is to take care of yourself” than we do actually taking care of ourselves. People are announcing New Years resolutions about going to the gym, and other people are trying to “educate” those people about how to behave in the gym. Working out
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You probably think this post is going to be about jackass landowners and their attorneys, or the overbearing micromanagement from the corporate headquarters…or maybe that dead cow on the lease road. Those are all part of the job. We signed up for it. The landman’s worst enemy is complacency. All of us tend to get
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In case you missed my post about the store closing at the end of the year, this is just another reminder. I’m taking some time off to focus on my healthy, my family, and my business (my actual business, not this store). Finding the time and motivation to run the store is something that I
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The Roadtrip to Nowhere Goes Digital This post started as a rant about how a whole new generation of landmen, or maybe it’s just half a generation…I’m not sure, are going to be starting their careers on “the digital roadtrip to nowhere.” For any of you that have been following along over the past 12
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How it started In its original form LandmanLife was a blog on Blogspot.com that I started while working as a landman in rural Pennsylvania. Since it was my first landman “gig” I naturally had no idea what to do or how to do it, and being a Texas boy (fish out of water in rural
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What is a landman? Fuck…there are a lot of answers to that question.
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