Not permanently but delay your expected graduation a year, maybe two for it? I have quite a few blue collar friends who went to work in North Dakota in the oil industry. Many are roughnecks but quite a few are driving trucks, bulldozers, scrappers. The roughnecks are insane and perform extremely tough labor. The drivers have it easier. Many positions in both areas are open and are ripe for the taking.

They're all paid anywhere from $18-30 an hour and make most of their money in overtime. The hours are crazy. 70-90 hours a week is not out of the norm and most of your life revolves around sleep, work, and probably getting drunk on your nights off.

Here is an article that talks about the subject:

http://www.businessinsider.com/youve...om-2012-3?op=1

I'm roughly a year off from graduating with a degree in accounting, two years if I pursue finance as well but this opportunity has me quite tempted. I would come back to school eventually but it would be a couple years down the road.

If it were you would you give up school for high paid labor?

Just get a summer internship instead.

Not a snowballs chance in hell

Do you even know anything about this?

From what I know housing is nearly impossible to find. In the winter months it gets down to like 20-30 below zero. When you work you work every day for 12-14 hours.

Add a zero to the end of that figure.

The cost of expenses is commensurate with the big wage. I guess if you're hella busto and really need money it'd be okay but after taxes it's not so baller and you'd probably be better off long-term landing an internship in your field of study. Like say you were going to make $100k for a year, deduct taxes, expenses, add in probability of injury, time away from friends/family in a desolate wasteland, long-term impact of grabbing money instead of trying to push your accounting career, cost of tuition going up in the meantime, etc. and what's it really worth? For me I'd value it at like $35k-$40k, which isn't anything special.

Just for the fact that I'd have to live in North Dakota.

Never, make your school and have future.
I got many friends which tried the way of fast money and hard work, everyone of them is cryin now after 1-2 years how hard it is and they would give everything to go to school or study. But its too late for them.

Lol, how is it too late 2 years after high school to go to college?

Absolutely not. Being in Minnesota, a neighboring state of North Dakota, we are usually last to learn about developments from the state over. When my friends tell me about their experiences in working out there I usually stare off in the distance and do not absorb anything they tell me.

As for the weather I hope to one day experience snow and a temperature below freezing. I hear snow is just like what they show in the movies.

Sarcasm aside quite a few companies offer man camps/company housing. If I found myself out west this would not be an issue as the only companies I'd work for would have to offer housing.

I watches some YouTube of a guy who did this a whole back. He said it took him a while to get a job so he slept in his car in the meantime. He only could do this because it was in the warmer months.

I remember him saying that only certain companies offeredman camps and that you'd work two weeks straight then have two weeks off and during off weeks you wouldn't be provided housing. Motels were mostly booked and people were price gouging rooms and similar things. I guess since you live in Minnesota you could drive home during your weeks off or something but you'd still need another place.

I think the guy said he was pulling in just under 4k/mo AFTER taxes. I'll try and find the videos when I get home but he was working on the rigs and this was about a year ago. No idea how much has changed.

I mean this job just sounds terrible. If you needed to grind off CC debt or needed to start over and get some cash it's a good temporary fix but there's absolutely no point to doing this a year from graduating. Just finish school and if you can't get a real job after or you're completely busto then yeah fine take a shot but it's not worth it at all right now.

possibly, but only for like 4-8 months, can't see myself roughnecking for a long period of time. most oil jobs in canada pay at least 30/hr.

i read the title and thought definitely yes, but that was under the pretense that we were working normal hours.

making 70k a year having that lifestyle is really more akin to making 30k a year, which i would not take time off for.

it's probably worth it if you can get a good job for a year cause then you combine street smarts + university education and will be more attractive in job market/have better opportunities immediately after graduating.

it's more and more apparent that a university education can be completely worthless. many of the stupidest people i know have fancy degrees. they see smart people getting them and think it's a sure path to success, go party for 4 years and come out dumber than they were when they entered.

Im from germany, we got an other system here.
They are about 21-22 years old. They have no Abitur(acces to college), it takes about 2-3 years to get Abitur at the school and startin studyin with 25 is a little bit too late here.