I’m thinking of getting a job with the oil companies in North Dakota, the ones Sean Hannity is interviewing on his talk show. My Filipina wife doesn’t want to go there because it’s so cold, but maybe she will like the place after all.
Use job service of Nd also craigslist.
Some companies have housing look for them if you wanna break in and areshort on cash.
The winter continues, one guy came here on a wing and a prayer
They amputated his legs for being so stupid.
Things should begin to pick up in the construction trades in April
The drillng rig are lookin to hire also are the pulling units or workover rigs if you prefer. Drilling rigs will have housing
I’m in the Alberta oil patch as an electrician. It’s great. Where else can you contract out yourself with your truck, make over 200k a year easy and have a decent lifestyle. Those places are getting few and far between. I wouldn’t recommend roughneck or anything though, work is very hard on the body. I say work with the brain not the brawn heh.
Spent a few years putting in wells in Nth Dakota and Wyoming, all I’ll say is get ready for the shock of your life. Bitter cold ad it stays that way for along time, plus they’re having the problem we are here in the Permian Basin. The housing shortage is bad with people paying enormous amounts of money for little housing. One bedroom apartments that once rented for 400 a month are now going a thousand and more, a two bedroom two bathe house will bring 1500 to 1700 a month. FEMA trailers are going for 800 a month and they’re parked in Man Camp’s all over the Permian Basin. While I apreciate what Sean is trying to do it’s not the cakewalk he make it out to be.
She couldn't believe she was living in the land of halo-halo !
It quickly became spring and during that summer, I bought all KINDS of winter stuff she obediently accepted, but I think secretly thought I was nuts.
Sure enough ... winter came again about eight or so months later and ... waddaya' know?, she jumped right INto snow/cold living.
She has since told me she doesn't mind the cold and snow because she has the clothing.
THIS year in SW Pa., because of extended exrtreme cold, her only complaint was keeping her feet warm ...
I just said, welcome to winter.
Tell her this tale.....
My mother became friends with Let let, a Philippina nurse in Al Khobar Saudi Arabia. I took an engineer there from Medina Minnesota to look at some of his equipment having problems. He stayed about three weeks. He took a shine to Let let.
They married. She worked as a nurse in Minnesota, rising to supervisor and mother of 3.