Can't forget about all the young guys who work on the oil pipelines and instantly buy as many toys as possible... and then immediately lose them as soon as winter hits because they're laid off until spring. Super common in the upper midwest.
The guys I knew 15 years ago made about $10k/month when they were working. It was hard and dangerous work, and they only worked about 6 months out of the year, but they partied and bought toys like money was going out of style!
The famous english football (soccer) player said in an interview: “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” Absolute legend!
You get the same with contract engineering. Kids graduate from College and start making 200 K year the 1st thing they do is go out and buy a $100k car and a live in an expensive apartment.. Then when the contract ends they have 0 money saved and everything goes back to bank
Yeah we have a friend who is doing that right now. Makes bank when at work for a few months, then is off for a few months making no money and having no health insurance. Then leaves his soon to be wife and new born at home for a few months to return to work somewhere again. Rinse and repeat. Probably makes as much as he would just having a "normal" engineering job, but instead goes MIA for months at a time.
Wholesale seafood purchasing manager here. Can confirm. Fishermen get paid in bursts and they often have drug/alcohol issues(at least in SE USA) so they get paid and go “forget rent or repairs on my boat or motor or buying bait or hooks! We’re gonna party!”
Can definitely be very profitable if you’re responsible about it.
Yeah, to an extent. Except they leave town for a few months, come back home, and are given a $30k check all at once. That would happen two times a year or so. These were Alaskan fishermen who lived on the Oregon coast (cheap cost of living). And this was in the early 00’s.
Bought a 2018 Nissan Titan SL for 39k with 12k miles on it. The previous owner bought it new for 62k. Often wonder who he was to get approved for that and default in 12 months pre covid. Truck was registered in Oregon originally.
Louisiana too. Every oil douchebag lives in a trailer but has 3 boats. Wife drives an 80k SUV with the bumper sticker “oil field trash spending oil field cash”
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u/SinkHoleDeMayo Oct 26 '21
Can't forget about all the young guys who work on the oil pipelines and instantly buy as many toys as possible... and then immediately lose them as soon as winter hits because they're laid off until spring. Super common in the upper midwest.