If I was mid 20's, I'd put everything aside for about 5 years, work the 12 plus hrs a day, learn soon there are other, easier, more lucrative jobs in the industry, and by the time your 30, you'll HAVE the truck, the boat, the house and if you desire, the wife and family .. well fed and cared for.
I bid ambitious young men to come to west/SW Penn. ... especially if you're a cdl tanker driver ... dry bulk sand for the frackers, and or water for the drillers
**A young, healthy man can start around 50K in the gas fields and can only go up.***
Welder-machinist, fit up and lay out, electrician, power plant operator, Pipe fitter and plumber. Steel fabricator. Roughneck, truck driver.
The list of good money jobs is endless, IF YOU WANT TO WORK!
Unfortunately most are like my worthless brother-in-law (If you know him he probably owes you money) who has not held a job in 28 years.
Or my future son-in-law who at the age of 29 has decided he wants to major in Philosophy.
Plenty of gas field jobs in NE Ohio too. However, 80 percent that apply for the jobs fail the drug test. They can’t fill all the jobs, and they pay real well.
My brother works in the oil fields in SW Pen and makes about $160000 a year. He works long hours but has no degrees. He has a hard time keeping the crews because they don’t want to work long hours. Seems like that is how it is in Penn. I drove out to work on his house because he could not get contractors to come out and tell him how much to do the repairs. I brought a worker with me and the neighbors thought we where crazy because we worked 12+ hours for 4 days in a row in 95 degree heat. That week they fired 75% of his crew because they did not want to work for 3 hours on a Saturday of a 3 day weekend.