And for those not interested in a college degree or a desk job...
Texas oil boom fueling trucker bonuses propels Odessa
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/08/06/texas-oil-boom-fueling-trucker-bonuses-propels-odessa/
Truckers can get $5,000 signing bonuses from companies serving Odessa, the West Texas center of a new Lone Star State oil boom and the nation’s fastest-growing city.
Housing is so tight that the local school district put deposits down on 15 apartments, to ensure that new teachers moving to the area would have places to live.
Union Pacific Corp. (UNP) is adding tracks and railyard facilities to help trains handle flows of drilling supplies coming in and crude oil heading out. The rising prosperity, driven by new extraction technologies and hydraulic fracturing, has unleashed an economic surge that is transforming Texas’s “petroplex” of Odessa and nearby Midland.
Bump!
Texas is looking better to move to.
My only problem would be making a couple grand so I can buy a truck and head down there with a solid plan and a few thousand in my account.