there is fresh out of cincinnati in two thousand and twelve after being unemployed for months he hears about the boom happening in williston. at first he works for an oil company but soon his desire for independence takes over and he sets up his own service company. bought the company and we had a sweeper truck and the situation williston went from a manageable situation where i would get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like daily activities like taking showers every day to like an all out sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i

have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here i'm not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity here was like someone who had been starving for years for like money like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat. buffet a and all you have to do is go out there and get the work done and people give you money to do it was amazing this year i'm probably going to be making around two hundred fifty thousand dollars is a lot of work involved a lot of work it's twenty four hours a day seven days a week. well i guess i should get back to work. here in an inhospitable handful of contrasts before the williston was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched everything has its own place including florida emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted. the town that has motion this with in its history of the

past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers to call of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift and a real without so growing up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never cost me. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by for. the first game of and this rang of two thousand ford saying i work there are neighbors they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it will not cost me to stay somewhere you know is going to stand a whole tale it was like a hundred dollars and i was in it ok hundred dollars a day seven days a week seven hundred dollars of course a whole week and so i just came to the conclusion you know what i'll get me a van fix it up so that you know i can be comfortable in it it makes financial

sense because i get to keep the majority of my money versus just just on the way on housing and stuff like this. is my first ever. get worse. and that's because the. jury cannot survive very long it is van where temperatures sometimes drop of the minus twenty. for the time being nothing is ready everything has happened so quickly it's very hard to find a place to. make shift housing known as man camps mine up by the hundreds on the edge of town or close to drilling sites. these dormitory towns built by necessity and empty lots offer respect me one hundred and one hundred fifty dollars a night two meals included. by two thousand and twelve the populace. living in

these men camps was estimated to be over ten thousand guys phone and now to florida nevada chicago cleveland you name it i've seen the license plate. every week you know this is the best thing going for single men you know i mean that's what i mean as far as wages and talent to the and everything you know the whole country should be this way. because. this place will put like a stress on you know put a weight that you be carrying around on you and you are really realizing and when i went home i came back i noticed that weight pressure that whatever you want to call it it builds up over time for me and. you wouldn't come up here unless there's some

reason for you to come up here you know nobody was moving up here into the in two thousand and one i was moving up here in two thousand and one or two thousand and two it wasn't until ok i can gain something financially i can i can improve my situation i can better my status my situation or on the level that i met in life now and that's that's what the all fill up here really brought to a lot of people who were smart about it and save their money. because i'm tell you man i was asking a lot of. there's not much help here to do to keep you busy focused on something you know you know keep your time occupied you know is really allow me to save all of my money you know in a position where you know i can go back home and buy your house. i just like the sound. go back home about your house take a for house not

a car now a car but a house. all around with us in the boom lisa's footprints on the landscape the fast as airplanes are covered for good by these horse heads for as far as the eye can see sweeney slowly to extract the by calls from the subterranean depths. it became urgent to build for the main highways all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks transporting all kinds of pipes beams sanded water used to track it. nothing was planted in advance everything was done in a hurry because of the immediacy of the work and the enormous influx of workers investors and the unemployed rushed in chasing their dream to grab a piece of pie. german

gun austrian gun tell you in an american and my rifles just in case i need to kill someone. most americans have guns in their house. and at the foot of my bed is a bible. most of my adult life was spent in universities doing teaching or research i went to the university of maine and got several degrees there in agricultural engineering information systems then i worked for mit on the human genome project. there came a time when there was a recession there was high unemployment i spent a lot of time reading the news on the internet and i kept reading about the williston the oil boom the bokken shale. i wasn't doing anything i was going into debt so i decided to go from an area that had almost ten percent unemployment to an area that had less than one percent unemployment. i came looking for work but i

didn't know what kind of work to take. so i fell into wireline it was very difficult at the beginning i had. accidents while pulling a trailer i could have been killed there were explosives in the trailer and it spun three hundred sixty degrees and the explosives came out the back. but my boss didn't fire me they gave me another chance after the first year i was very pliable i had a marketable skill. it pleases me that i had to hand a small hand but nevertheless i changed my career late in life and involved myself in american energy independence and in weaning this country of our foreign oil dependency. you know america would sell its own mother for energy.

i live in st george utah. and my family's down there i need to come up here to make some money to pay off debt and stuff we're getting there. i went to school and became an teach school elementary school i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year and drive a truck so i chose to drive truck. and i were usually twelve to fourteen hours to get my truck around eight o'clock in the morning and i work till eight o'clock at night you know somewhere between me and i

. it's mentally. not only my physically fatigue. but it's a mental fatigue. this is the moment that i like the best. reached down enough to be everything stops vibrating all the noise goes away. i live in company housing here it's provided by the company i have to share. thirty five foot r.v. trailer with

a three hundred fifty pound guy. good . thank. you all so much friends are. joining me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here and that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened to. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i dived. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just kill you narrowness and spending to twenty million one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy my great so we'll all chance with. the case it's going to. running around trying to find a job and work here or there and it's not

a good life. and my children have had some some problems so i spent a lot of money on my children and cumulated debt so. the original plan was to come up here for six months and get out of debt but as i came up made money paid off some bills there were other things. happy birthday celestial. yeah. six six stitches yeah. well i'm glad you're feeling better celestial well i mean. i love you too and talk to you in the morning. any of you.

i usually park the truck come back to the trailer hear it a frozen meal. throw in microwave sit down to need it and. if we're not too tired. my roommate nial have a bowl of ice cream and and watch part of a d.v.d. a little after. but most of time it and go to sleep i don't take a shower every night because we don't have a shower well there's a shower in the trailer but there's no running water. we don't deal she. just has not solely attract unoiled workers. it was an opportunity for people like

jeff and constance to change their lives to open a small business. and before i moved to boston i was in the health care industry and then a hospital administrator for several years in kansas. my project was going to live and i wanted to be with my family first and i remember talking to some people was talking about wilson about north dakota and the oil boom there's a lot of oil out here and there's a lot of jobs in the water of opportunity for business willesden seemed to have the best opportunities for us and my family and so we drove up to the local and we realized immediately there was a huge opportunity out here so many people out here there most of them the least thirty thousand people going through here and there were only five restaurants at the time and then we looked a little bit closer and said ok what skill sets do we have that would be a good system and we thought that maybe if you don't shop for so many other

businesses have done here and the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and go back home they don't think we're like that and i think that's one of the reasons we're that's it's not just. business for us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community these supported us they definitely did to help to south. we are current of it and we're always contributed . to. be a good day to day. a lot of kids are going to be really excited to have know it's. we came here they didn't have a donut shop they haven't had one for over. eight years most of these kids never had a girlfriend for. they come into my shop all its high school board was wow go go it's. there are more families there are coming to my list

and now i go pick up the land and school and i see other kids you know on the asian kids african hispanic you know it's a good sign that the community is growing. healthy way you know a little. crack lives in bozeman montana a small town six hundred miles away. has run out of options in his hometown and has decided to settle for with liston he knows he will not see his wife and two kids for several weeks. long hours behind the wheel with the hope that he will find work when he arrives when i leave my family like this i usually feel you know pretty lousy at times there was one incident years ago where my daughter was just in tears as i was leaving and it's like it's hard it's it's not fun it's hard but it's what

has to be done. they're getting better at it they're getting used to it i'm getting used to it but i still like a brother be home. craig is the way he's usually gone anywhere from about four weeks to this last one was eight weeks really. didn't see him for about eight weeks and then he'll come home for about a week or so i think it's been hard for the kids because. they were told me that they feel like it's a broken home you know it's almost like we're divorced because we see so little of each other so it's just been really hard for them this is very similar to living on a ship or being on a boat you're gone for months and see you come back and you see the family for short periods of time and then take off on your ship again you're it's a great analogy it's exactly where it's why. we've all talked about this and i

think we could do with a little less so that he could spend more time with us and be more of a family. so i think i would rather have that happy family over here some of the stuff that we he transfer died for us that watching my kids grow up it's difficult and dylan it's almost five years now there's no doubt about it but it's just it's what we have to do. and him had just lost his job in the oil business when he met us and constance the couple was charged by the courage of a low power of this young man ready to do anything to save his family from misery. since then adam spends all his nights eating donuts. and doing three jobs right now

working every day. trying to get some money i want to read ok. i've got two girls two daughters i want something better form where we lived in southern california is not a very nice place to live so it's a lot of crime to gangsters and so the north dakota a be a better place to raise a family. is a lot of resources here and you've got the salvation army and they feed you here at the methodist church and over it lutheran church down there. but i get food from work too at the dawn it's trying to send all my money home for my wife to pay the bills and rent it's enough to get by you know just pay the writ you know pay one hundred a week right know a guy me understand i have a family he wanted to say one hundred twenty five but if you drop it down to

a hundred a week. you. the american dream is that you can always chase i really believe that even during the recession there were still opportunities for each is going to look for you got to be overwhelming or move to change that to get going and go go chase go do it. now a lot of people don't do that but the ones they do with usually come out ahead wrong. because our country is never the stable across the whole it's very rare to have all fifty states doing well it's also rare to have all fifty states to poorly so we're always moving around that's part of our national character it's always find new opportunities wherever they may be. what i do here pretty much is remodeling homes and handyman work fixing other people's mistakes and other people's problems mostly for homeowners residential it

keeps me real busy. i bill out usually about sixty hours a week i can easily put in a twelve hour day no promise you have to run you know my go to bank post office go see clients check on supplies orders a lot of running around to do i love to work how i am a workaholic there's no doubt about it the money's nice but i like work just the way my family is. and. these are some of the old cattle pens in corrals here some of the fallen apart completely but this is where they bring in the cattle to brando and have the calves i have the vets work on them and stuff but now i can see it i don't use it anymore . it was kind of a tough life i mean you lose cattle they die and the winners and so on a hot summers and you know drought you just don't know what's going to happens

gamble every day never made a lot of money doing that most are ranchers and farmers but they really don't want to do that anymore because they've got the palms down there that they can make money off of. and the oil's put a lot a lot of money into their pockets and now they can do what they want you know take it easy work whatever they want to do so it's not as risky life's not as risky as it used to be. that or. you don't meet many people that are from. when i'm talkin to a bunch of people i don't know and they say were you from i say here they go what.

most people that lived here then they were dismayed to see this many people coming lot of people made a lot of money so i mean they like that the older folks that lived here on a fixed income renting an apartment they went from three hundred a month two thousand a month and rent so they're gone. i remember the first time i drove out to the place and i was eighteen miles about and i counted fifty or oil rigs that i could see from the road and that's when it started getting crazy i thought you know the oil companies for the most part they're good until we start thinking that they can power right over here because they're big and powerful . one thing they do do and i asked them when they came out the first time they always found a woman along with the group to comes out and i asked him straight out i said is that because we will shoot a woman and he said you know. we

never walk the house now i go take the key out. all the time my pickup we walk in the house with no alarm system in the house would change just about everything. to get my meal. power yet more and more neighbors. it's not the country anymore like it used to be. a lot of these are people who moved in with the oil. there was no place to buy in town they bought lots over here probably three four acres watch the bills out here.

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