bought the company and we had a sweeper truck and the situation went from a manageable situation where i get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like. 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 not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity i 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 and all you have to do is go out there and get the work done 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 was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched everything has its own place including emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that is motionless within his history and past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers of extracting at least a. day. this is the one we unpack like a raft gift. without. with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never custom made. investors and everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by force. first came up here

in the spring of two thousand ford saying i work there are neighbors they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it was going to cost me to stay somewhere you know if i was just going to stand a whole tail it was like one hundred dollars and i was in it ok hundred dollars a day seven days a week seven hundred dollars on a course of a whole week and so i just came to the conclusion you know what i'll give 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 and then. get worse. and that's because the. jury cannot survive very long in his van where winter temperatures sometimes drop of the minus twenty. for the time being he 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 to meals including. a two thousand and twelve the population living in these men camps was estimated to be over ten thousand you have guys phone and now to florida nevada. policeman you name it absent a license plate. every which you know is the best thing for single men you know i mean that's what i mean as far as wages and. to the everything you know the whole country should be this way.

you can put. this place will put like a stress on you it will put a weight that you'll be carrying around on you and you won't really realize it and when i went home i came back i noticed it that way then that pressure that whatever you want to call it it builds up over time for me and. you 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 whole 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 you time occupied you know is really allowed me to save all of my money and i'm in a position where you know i can go back home and buy your house. i just like the sound of it i can go back home and buy me a house a cash for a house not a car not a car but a house. alone with just in the lease it's footprints on the landscape the fast as it leads are kind of retreat could be these forces for as far as the eye can see. to extract the back calls from the subtree in temps. to build surely highways. all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks

transporting all kinds of pipes beams sand and water used in fracking. nothing was planted events 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 the pie. german guy an austrian guy italian 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 so. 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 a 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. america would sell its own mother for energy. i live in st george utah. and my family's down there i needed 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. 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 of my physically fatigue. but it's a mental fatigue also. 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. just . friends or.

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a minute to me. on this occasion. running around trying to find a job and work here or there and it's not a good life. my children have had some small problems so i spent a lot of money helping 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 i made money off some bills there were other things. i happy birthday celestial. six six stitches yeah.

well i'm glad you're feeling better celestial i mean. i love you too and talk to you in the morning. already 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. of the laughter. 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.

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. before i moved to austin 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 must have been at least

thirty thousand people going through here and there were only five restaurants at the time and then we 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 there were 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 for that since it's not just. a business for us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community these supported us the death we did to help to south. we are current of it and we always contributed. 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 hadn't had one for over eight years most of these kids never had a girlfriend or. they come into my shop all if i know what was why i'll go home it's. there are more families that are coming to my list and now i go pick up the land at 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 with 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 willis and 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. for. craig says the way he's usually got it be anywhere from about four weeks to this last i was eight weeks early. we will see him for about eight weeks and then home 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

out a ship or being in a boat you're gone for months and see you come back and you see the family for a short period of time and then take off on your ship again your it's a great analogy it's exactly where it's like. 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 doing this almost five years now there's no doubt about it but it's just it's what we have to do. adam who just lost his job and it will business when he met jeff and constance the

couple was charged by the courage of a low power 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 relocate my family you. get to grows two daughters and i want something better form where we live in southern california is not a very nice place to live so it's about a crime. gangsters and browns. the north dakota of be a better place to raise a family. there's a lot of resources here and you've got the salvation army and they feed you here at the methodist church over it lutheran church down there. but i get food from work too at the donuts trying to send all my money home for my wife to pay the

bills and rent it's enough to get by you know it's either a you know a one hundred a week or big ice and you understand i have a family. you want to say one hundred twenty five but if you drop it down to a hundred a week. you know. the american dream for some you can always chase i really believe that even during a recession to still opportunities for each is going to look for you got to be over willing to move to change that to get going and go go chase go to it. now a lot of people won't do that but the ones to do with usually come out ahead in the long run. because our country's never the stable across the whole world it's very rare to have all fifty states doing well it's also where they have all fifty states to poorly so we're always moving on that's part of our national character it's always fine lopper to movies wherever they may be.

what i do here pretty much is remodelling 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 borders stuff 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. 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 brand have the calves have the vats 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 the hot summers and you know drought is just on i was going to happens gamble every day never made a lot of money doing that most or ranchers and farmers but they really don't have to do that anymore because they've got the pumps down there that they can make money off of and the oil's put a lot a lot of money into their pockets so 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 you used to be.

with. you don't meet many people that are from. when i'm talking to a bunch of people i don't know and they say we're you from i say here they go what . most people have 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. 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'd. about two placements eighteen miles. and i counted fifty or oil rigs that i could see from the road and that's when i started getting crazy i thought you know the oil companies for the most part they're good until we start thinking that they can fall right over you 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 initial group to come joe and i asked him straight out i was sort of that because we would shoot a woman and he would you know. we never walk the house now i go take all the time my pickup we walk in the house we have alarm system in the house that changes just about everything. to get me. now or you have 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 a lot so what here probably three four acres watch the bills out here. statistic

from a couple excel came out that showed the wealth and income gap around the world in different countries and then there's there's the u.s. there there's france and then there's the u.k. it's like why does stuff incredible spread between this concentration and then you've got the list of people there in the tory party who support the queen whose whole point of bragg's it was to support the clean ok so they. austerity less than a moron a policy to cause trouble poverty brags it's all about supporting the queen and getting rid of their world contacts. a good a place called camp sundown camp for people that can't. and their legs so the empire

can. like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with this because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does or she'll patients when they have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside their disco gets flicker in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin into your muscle all the way down to the bone. there is no relief. we're not sure this is going to stop. us veterans who come back from war often to list seems doris'. were going after the

people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from a certain french officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for us. need to call tony. i think you might. get one. buddy.

or i can just let me as i knew she was out of here to yeah i am kind of a little room to get into any kind of chicken dad's going to be made to move on to one of the men that young enough i don't know before he doesn't. join me every day on the all excitement chill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of sport i'm sure. i'll see you that.

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