Question:
Competing companies are raiding each other for
experienced help, renting ad space, billboards, even banner-towing
planes at beach resorts with generous offers of pay and benefits in
what is turning out to be one very hot sector of the job market.
Answer:
"I'm proud to say I'm a fifth-generation miner ... that's on both
sides of my family," said Jeff Samek, 21, of Rices Landing, in the
southwest corner of Pennsylvania.
Samek had trained as a welder, but the pay and benefits were nowhere
near what can be made in the mines, he said.
"We're pretty much writing our own check," he said.
Miners can start at $40,000 to $50,000, but can make as much as
$100,000 if they work all the overtime that is to be had.
Earl Lewis, 34, of Crucible, quit his job as an EMT and, like his
father and grandfather, is now a coal miner. He is putting away money
for the first time in 15 years.
Great wages! Incredibly low cost of living! Move home to Kentucky! I
am looking for an on-line site that reaches miners to advertise the
sale of land in Harlan, Ky., where companies are in dire need of
miners.
We have a farm that we need to sale, and it will be auctioned off in
November. By the way, both of my grandfathers were miners, and my
paternal great-grandfather was killed in a mine cave-in. We have all
left Harlan, and now we need to sell my parents' place.
