loomixguy
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Oldtimer said:Tam said:Oldtimer said:When you can make $12,000-clear $10,000 a month (and in many cases board and room are furnished) - you can leave your family home and send them money... Many have been doing it in the Alaska and Canadian oil patchs for years...
Or you can be like Sage said to do- stay in Texas, whine and draw retraining money and unemployment from the taxpayers... (I can't believe our government is spending $ retraining 70 year olds?)...
You really are a fool Oldtimer if you think hundreds of lonely men living in man camps, vehicles and tents is a good way to keep a family strong and a community safe.. :roll:
Tam- you selectively left this part of my post out :
Thing is- you don't have to live in the middle of the patch...I know many that live in Glasgow-- even some that live in Miles City, Havre, and Chinook- work 4 12's- then come home for 3 days...Live in company provided mancamps when working- and don't pay for a thing unless they buy a 6 pack in the evening...
And hundreds of the jobs open- are in towns all over the state to replace all the locals that did take jobs in the patch... Mechanic jobs everywhere...Some Ag and vehicle shops are even offering training.. Even many of the patch support jobs- aren't right in the middle of it...One firm is trucking fracing sand from Wolf Point where its unloaded- to the old Base where its being stored....
Several new rail ports and sidings being put in- 100+ miles from Williston...
DAMN! Old Slimer, I bet this has BOTH of your legs tingling! Just think of all the man sex to be had at these locations! Right up your alley! :wink: