A lot of the unemployed people will not go there for a job because it can be dirty and hard work. Most people want cushy high paying jobs.
The same dirty and hard work is required for oil work in Texas Eagle Ford and Permian Basin. Both are booming with work.
While labor rates are up and short on people, they are nothing like North Dakota is seeing.
I still say the cold. We have far more drilling of the same type going on in Texas without the extreme conditions in North Dakota.
Then there are many of us, whom worked hard all of our lives only to be sidelined by work injury.
I am one of them. I NEVER wanted to be on assistance. However, getting injured put me there.
Add insult to the injury, the Company is “Private, or Self” insured and as such, falls through the cracks in WCB or IC Rules.
A hearing officer told me, that if they had been regular WBC, my injuries would have been repaired within the first year, not dragging out for the 8 years it has been.
However, since I have an excellent Atty and we have repeatedly met the burden of proof, my repair surgeries & PT are within the next six months, as the company has been ordered to comply with treatment.
Once, that is done, I will be looking into coming out there. Getting security clearances or passing background/drug checks are not a problem.
I am a Technician in electronics/computers, and since there are no jobs where I live nor apparently in my field out there, then going back to manual labor or driving tow motor equipment, would be welcome compared to being on assistance. When I get off this site, I am looking into our local Career School to check out a few additional trade skill courses, that seem like they would be a good fit for out there. Once healed, I go where the work is.
Trust me, that pitiful amount well under $1K/month, does not pay bills after paying rent & necessities. Why anyone would rather have that than work is beyond me. WAY beyond me and I have been handicapped since I was a baby. I was brought up to stand on my own two feet.
The thing that concerns me, is given some of the overtones here, how safe is it for female workers? I can live in a camper, have been for years, so that is no problem and I have four footed protection @ home. However, I do not wish to be fighting off others on the job nor as I travel to or from the job.