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Originally Posted by Houdini
If anyone needs a job, and doesn't mind actually working hard, move to North Dakota. They can't fill jobs fast enough.
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"A job on an oil rig can pay as much as six figures. The starting salary for truck drivers is around $80,000. While the nation's unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, Williston's unemployment rate is less than 1 percent. " |
This article makes it sound like the great depression days. Its a very telling that there are so many flocking there for these hard ass labor type jobs.
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There is such a large influx of people that thousands are staying in 'man camps'- shipping containers converted into housing units for the workers new to town. When more teachers were hired to deal with the rising number of students, an apartment building had to be built to house the new teachers, Koeser said.
"When we have as many people come here everyday looking for work, where are they going to live," Koeser asked. "How are we going to get water to them and sewer to them and a road to them and power to them and all those sorts of issues. Yeah, it's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on the infrastructure."
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damn... i can't imagine living in a shipping container to work on an oil rig..