Didn't everybody else know about this in college? In Washington, it was Crab Boats and Canneries in Alaska that people would disappear off to for the summer an

Didn't everybody else know about this in college? In Washington, it was Crab Boats and Canneries in Alaska that people would disappear off to for the summer and come back $40k richer. In the South, I had heard it was Oil Rigs. But the story is the same: Trade a few months of your life (along with a non-trivial chance that you'd also trade life itself) for a healthy pile of cash and the kind of 20 hr/day suffering that only an 18 year old can withstand. Plenty of guys did it, and everybody I knew was aware that it was an option. Nobody, however, at least in my circle, considered even for a second trying to turn that sort of hell into a career. Reading the article, I don't see that having changed. Sure there are people willing to do such work full time. But chances are they're not the same folks for whom university was ever a serious option.