I live in CA. and the state is a mess beach or no beach. You put a 22
year old kid in South Dakota making 100,000 a year with oil company
when he is able to buy his first BIG FANCY SPORTS CAR the beach will
be forgotten very quickly!! It’s very hard work, don’t know if the kids from
CA. are actually made of this kind of grit!!!
It’s very hard work, don’t know if the kids from
CA. are actually made of this kind of grit!!!”
It’s not just the kids in California. I got my grandson who lives in Kansas a job in the Texas oil patch through a good friend. Grandson is working at a factory, long hours for $12 an hour. Good worker but he could make four times as much working in the oil patch. Did my best to get him to try it for a couple of years. But he’s in love with a girl in Kansas who has two more years of college and he doesn’t want to leave her.
My neighbor has a grandson who went to work in the oil patch three years ago. He has $150,000 in the bank and a brand new pick-up which he paid cash for. Says he’ll work in the oil patch for six more years and then find a wife, start a family, maybe go back to college part-time and have a normal life. He’s 24 now and seems to understand that it’s not all about right now, there will be a tomorrow that you need to plan and prepare for. I would have to say that this young man is the exception among those that I know in this age group.