North Dakota is Hiring

[Townsend]

We have a floundering economy, high unemployment, high numbers of people that have quit looking for jobs, etc. And I link to story where jobs are, and people b!tch about the weather. If you do not have a job, and you have yourself and your family to support, you might, gulp, have to be a little, itsy bit uncomfortable. And not all jobs are outdoors up there. Lots of trucking jobs, and some employers are willing to throw in housing assistance.

If someone else wrote what you just wrote, you'd attack them personally and degrade their ancestry.

[AquaMan]

I did a training course for Schlumberget with employees that were working in North Dakota.They were all engineers in their 20's. According to them it is no exaggeration that living/working conditions are extreme there. Shortages everywhere in housing, services and the weather is hell. Prices are quickly rising so that even the $15 per hour you get for fast food employment, doesn't go far.

I would and did work in adverse conditions in my 20's at a refinery down south to make twice my income and it was exhausting even at that age. Injuries, dangerous conditions, lack of sleep, dead tired from working 12 hour shifts but I had no wife, no kids and no other responsibilities. I saved cash and bought myself a new Vette. I had a good office job waiting for me when I returned. Even considere Alaska pipeline work where the guys returning were flush with cash they soon squandered.

Unfortunately, most unemployed, underemployed today are not 20 something college educated, single people. They are over 30 with non specific education that isn't easily transferable to oil company operations. Yes, they can pull up stakes and head to the Dakotas to live in their car, but its a dicey proposition.

[patric]

Such good timing:
http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/ND-oil-pipeline-break-leaks-800-barrels-of-crude/obQCicaOjkugaMUdQ3ya1g.cspx

[Red Arrow]

We have a floundering economy, high unemployment, high numbers of people that have quit looking for jobs, etc. And I link to story where jobs are, and people b!tch about the weather.

When I left the cube farm today, no one said not to come back on Monday.  At least for now, I can be picky.

[guido911]

If someone else wrote what you just wrote, you'd attack them personally and degrade their ancestry.

You are having a bad week; aren't you?