Originally Posted by tinman1

I'll bite...

Oil rig workers make nearly $100,000 a year - May. 10, 2012

The average wage for an oil field worker with less than a year experience is $67k/year, and goes up from there. The average was $99k/year in 2011. I have friends who barely made it through high school and goofed off afterwards. They're now living pretty decent lifestyles, easily affording houses and nice cars. That's more than I can say as a pilot...