Rig-Hopping With An Oil and Gas Sales Representative

I’ve never made a lot of money, and I’m not making a ton now, but the oil and gas boom is taking care of my family. I’m divorced with three children, ages 21, 19, and 16. After working as a teacher, I was a stay-at-home mom for fifteen years. When I started working again, in 2005, I sold health care products and magazine ads. The oil and gas industry has given me — and a lot of other people — a good opportunity.

In Texas Monthly former elementary school teacher and single mom Tracey Zettner talks about what it’s like to be an oil and gas sales representative and work in a field that consists mostly of men (“Some people call them ‘oil field trash’ and say that they’re scummy. I don’t see it.”)

Photo: Leann Mueller for TM

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