You're probably premature on the oil bit, the latest oil boom is over but it was a good run for high paying, manual labor without any education requirements. C

You're probably premature on the oil bit, the latest oil boom is over but it was a good run for high paying, manual labor without any education requirements. Coal jobs had the double whammy of cheaper energy sources for power reducing demand and replacement of mining veins to mechanized mountaintop removal reducing need for manual labor. Oil demand will probably come back for the same jobs - until they can mechanize oil/natural gas drilling like mountaintop coal removal.