Midland is equidistant from El Paso and Fort Worth, hence the name that indicates the mid-way point ('land in the middle'). Combined with Oddessa about 19 miles away, the two cities make up the Odessa-Midland Metro Area in West Texas. Odessa-Midland as a metropolitan area sits in the Permian Basin of West Teax, in the midst of OIL. President George W. Bush has lived in both cities. Midland is his home after his terms as POTUS.

Vasrious sources report 600-700 companies in or near Midland TX thathave dealt in oil and the processing of petroleum and petroleum products. Jobs in these and related industries can be found at Crude Oil & Natural Gas Extraction jobs in Midland, TX. These jobs pay an annual salary of from $28,000 to $166,000 with the average being $56,000 per year.

Alternative Energy Jobs in Midland have a shorter wage range of $28,000 - $96,000 per year, but a higher average at $62,000 annually. These jobs can be found on the same job board and on Craisglist at http://odessa.craigslist.org/.

The Permian Basin runs beneath Midland, Odessa, and many other cities in West Central Texas. A combination of smaller basins containing rocks from the Permian Era, Midland Basin is the largest such component and the Mid-Continent Oil Produncing Area is located in much of the larger basin as a whole, led by Midland and Odessa oikl and gas operations.

In 2006, CNNMoney.com compared Midland, Texas with the Top 10 Best Places to Live in the USA at that time. CNN found that Midland's Job growth between 2000 - 2005 was nearly 11% and the median family income was about $77,000, while 74.7% of residents had a health care coverage plan (leaving 25.3% without). These results were similar to the Top 10 Cities on average. One major difference was that the Cardiac Mortality Index (a measure of death from heart related problems) in Midland was 499+ per hundred thousand people, compared to just 202 per hundred-thousand average for all of the Top 10 Best Places taken together. Heart Health and health insurance were targeted as areas for focused improvement and have comer under scrutiny by Midland County officials and planning groups.

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Midland is the boyhood home of President George W. Bush, the first president of the 21st century, and figures in the Oliver Stone film "W."

Josh Brolin portrays W, while Richard Dreyfess plays Dick Cheney.

Oliver Cromwell is George HW Bush, Ellen Burstyn plays Barabara, and Scott Glenn plays Ronald Rumsfeld.

The film contains a lot of action and controversy. Promo ads are set to run opposite John McCain presidential campaign ads.

The Largest Companies in Midland:

1. Dow Chemical
2. Dow Corning
3. County of Midland
4. Midland City

Other Large Private Employers:

• Cingular Wireless Employee Services Inc.
• Compressor Systems Inc.
• Dawson Geophysical Co.
• Key Energy Shared Services
• In Home Care Inc.
• Endeavor Petroleum
• Patterson-UTI Drilling West
• Schlumberger Technology Corp.
• Semperian
• Wal-Mart Associates Inc.

Top 10 Fast Growing Industries

1. Commercial & Industrial Machinery & Equip. Rental & Leasing
2. Community Food & Housing, & Emergency & Other Relief Service
3. Facilities Support Services
4. Ambulatory Health Care Services
5. Amusement Parks & Arcades
6. Child Day Care Services
7. Computer Systems Design & Related Services
8. Architectural, Engineering, & Related Services
9. Full-Service Restaurants
10. 4-way tie: a) Colleges, Universities, & Professional Schools, Public & Private; b) Death Care Services; c) Cable TV & Other Program Dist.; d) Furniture Stores

MIDLAND JOB SEARCH

• Employment with the City of Midland
• Employment with Midland County
• Workforce Solutions in the Permian Basin

Oil in America has created controversy in the past long before today's generations have thought it occurred. The earliest I have found was in 1900 (see below). This list in not all inclusive, but is interesting in its variety and timeline.

• Urban Cowboy (1976)
• Dallas: Ultimate Dallas - TV Drama
• Addicted to Oil: Thomas L. Friedman Reporting (2006)
• The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (2005)
• Blood and Oil: The Middle East in WWI (2006)
• The Cartel: Oil and the US Government (Das Kartel) (2003)
• Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil (1968)
• Gas-Oil (1955)
• The Fighting Texans (Randy Strike Oil) (1933)
• The Age of Oil (1924)
• OIL! (1921, 1921)
• Burning of the Standard Oil Tanks (1900) - Silent film documentary filmed in New Jersey by American Mutoscope and Biograph

Interesting Link: Some Political Contributions Made by Texans

1. Compensation, Benefits, & Job Analysis Specialists - This is itself indicates that the Odess-Midland area requires more woerks and that the region is gearing up for even more expansion.
2. Managers in Most Industry Clusters - (See actual job listings below in the UPDATE)
3. Information Technology - Analysts & Engineers
4. Health and Medical Professionals, including Cardiovascular Techs (county health focus), RNs, Travel Nurses, Anesthesiologists, Chiropractors, other therapists, Home Health and Perosnal Care Aides, and others; category tied with Funeral Directors
5. Social & Community Services Managers
6. Personal Financial Advisors
7. Teachers, Instructors, and Professors
8. Environmental Science & Protection Techs, including Health
9. Engineers and Scientists - Computer, Life, Physical.
10. Teachers, Instructors, and Professors - all levels of education and wide range of subjects from arts to computer science to chemistry and communications.

Other High Demand Jobs in the metro area include:

• Architects, Ex. Landscape & Naval
• Civil Engineers
• Cabinetmakers & Bench Carpenters
• Chefs & Head Cooks

• B & H Maintenance & Construction Inc.
• Holloman Construction Co.
• Family Dollar Distribution LP
• Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
• Professional and Business Services.
• National Oilwell Varco LP
• Nurses Umlimted
• Odessa Regional Hospital LP
• Rosa's Café & Tortilla Factory Ltd.

The job listings in this list are the most-frequently listed jobs in the Midland-Odessa area. Bold print jobs match the government projections opffered above. Sales and management are the two largest fields in which jobs are available during summer, 2009.

1. Retail Sales Consultants
2. Assistant Store Managers
3. Store Managers
4. Sales Associates/Salespersons
5. Sales Support jobs
6. Assistant Managers - retail.
7. Physicians - several spcialties
8. Occupational Therapists
9. Account Executive for directories publishing
10. Innovations Marketing Leaders
11. Restaurant General Managers
12. Assistant Restaurant General Managers

Employers Listing the Most Jobs

• Cybercoders.com
• Voyage Healthcare
• AT&T
• Axelon Services Corp
• Interim HealthCare
• Ector County Independent School District
• Sears
• Family Dollar Stores
• USMilitary.com and US Army National Guard
• Cingular Wireless
• Medical Connections
• NES Staffing

The Workforce Investment Act in Permian Basin is the authorizing initiative for funding made avaiable to train individuals in high paying jobs and long-term caerers that include the following table of Training Requirements and Hourly Wages:

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