If you are saying the crab fishing people are from Alaska you would be wrong, most of them live in Seattle Washington. And a large, very large percentage of people in Alaska live off welfare as does the state.
I pray for the day I can afford to leave Alaska and live in a warmer climate during the winter, summers ares short, sweet, cool and totally awesome. Jobs are balls to the wall right now, I work 10 or more hours a day 6 days a week.
But it gets to be a drag when it gets really cold. And when I get laid off from november to april or even may.
A lot of jobs are seasonal, a lot of workers are seasonally from out of state, its the way it is here. The smart and successful ones have homes elsewhere like Hawaii or Arizona, I have plans on working in Australia myself.
Not a lot of people work year round, sure they do like at the stores, Walmart, Home Depot but those jobs are not the seasonal dangerous, skilled or high rewarding ones.