Sept. 16, 2026

WTI Continued Discussion...100%

Oil is flirting with $100 a barrel again, and Colin and Greg ask the obvious question: does that mean Calgary is heading back into a hiring boom?

Not exactly. Greg walks through how capital discipline, automation, and shareholder demands have reshaped the energy sector, and why higher prices tend to reward company balance sheets before they reward payrolls.

From there the conversation gets personal. Colin builds out a full household balance sheet for a Calgary energy employee, and the correlations he uncovers between a job, a bonus, and a portfolio might surprise you.

They close with a line worth remembering: you can have a great career in oil and gas without an oil and gas retirement plan. What that actually looks like in practice is where things get interesting.