I think the depth of the current slump in our industry caught a lot of us by surprise. We weren't anticipating it. However, the expected labour shortage we're facing as an industry means that our industry won't let up in its efforts to encourage universities and colleges to turn out the graduates we're looking for and to encourage the drilling and service sectors to continue to do what they can to make sure they have an adequate and trained labour supply.
The extreme volatility in the oil and gas industry, or any commodity business, makes it difficult, because just when you think you're bringing on young people and convincing them they have a career, we have one of these sharp downturns, and unfortunately people have to be laid off. What's different this time, I hope, is that because we're this much closer to this demographic slump, companies are able to see through the current slump a little bit better and do more than they might have done a decade ago in terms of attempting to retrain, reassign, or otherwise hold on to their workforce. They know that three or four or five years from now, we are going to have a permanent, steady attrition in the workers we have, and we currently don't see enough coming on among the younger population.