"SIDNEY, Mont. — For most high school seniors, a college degree is the surest path to a decent job and a stable future. But here in oil country, some teenagers are choosing the oil fields over universities, forgoing higher education for jobs with salaries that can start at $50,000 a year. ".............................
The smart ones will live cheap, save a lot, and use the savings to get into another field when the local industry goes dry.
The dumb ones will blow it all, and wind up bitter at the oil companies that did them wrong.
Heck, if I could have made that kind of money with just a high school diploma I would have been all over it - and then gone to school with no worries about how I was going to pay for tuition or books.
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You children don't remember when factories were everywhere and they all payed the equvilant of todays 50k....Thats when unions were strong and we charged import taxes or tarriffs so Americans wouldn't have to compete with 3rd world wages..
That was before Corporate interests ruined this country
Big Doug wrote: You children don't remember when factories were everywhere and they all payed the equvilant of todays 50k....Thats when unions were strong and we charged import taxes or tarriffs so Americans wouldn't have to compete with 3rd world wages..
That was before Corporate interests ruined this country
Funny to see how arrested development wants to portray itself to the the rest of the world.
Big Doug wrote: You children don't remember when factories were everywhere and they all payed the equvilant of todays 50k....Thats when unions were strong and we charged import taxes or tarriffs so Americans wouldn't have to compete with 3rd world wages..
That was before Corporate interests ruined this country
You mean when China and India were backward rural nations instead of manufacturing powerhouses? Your rose floored glasses only show nostalgia.
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