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From Calgary engineer to sommelier: laid-off oil workers try career Plan B

Published Wed, Jun 22, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    Calgary, Alberta

    ALEJANDRO Rodriguez wants to be a sommelier. His previous experience: 20 years as an oil reservoir engineer.

    The 42-year-old needed to consider a career Plan B after ARC Resources Ltd laid him off in January, adding to a growing number of people in the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta who no longer have a place in its once-vibrant oil-and-gas industry.

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