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Oil Fields. Western Wyoming has some crazy huge oil fields and refineries. I would assume similar cases for North Dakota and Alaska as well, but I don't know f

• iooi 8y ago
  ND: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_North_Slope#Petroleum_resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_North_Slope#Petroleum_r...
• dx87 8y ago
  Yep. My father works at an oil refinery in Northern Alaska and everyone there is making well over 100k, around 200k for middle management, plus benefits like a pension. Downside is that it's a frozen tundra where you can't go outside without protective goggles to keep your eyes from freezing shut, but they also work 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off, so it's basically 6 months of vacation every year, in addition to normal vacation days. He said some people chose to live in warmer places like Puerto Rico and just fly back and forth every 2 weeks.
  • ghaff 8y ago
    >work 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off I haven't been in the oil business for a very long time but that was a very common pattern for offshore drilling rigs and the like. The interval of weeks varied from 1 to 4 as I recall generally based on how remote the location was.