How did you wake up?

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Have been working in the North Dakota, Montana oilfields for the last five years, and seen a huge increase in population in the last two. People have always come and gone but when they started staying is when I got curious. I couldn’t understand, who in their right mind would live in a camper or a man camp in the winter. I couldn’t understand why someone would pay 500 to a thousand dollars a month to park a camper for a 15 to 25 dollar an hour job plus all the other over inflated prices around here. I’ve met and heard of guys who haven’t seen their families in months and others who are raising small kids in campers. I always thought what I’ve seen with my own eyes is different than what I was taught in school and on seen t.v. So I quit watching the news several years ago. I have been fortunate to make a rather decent living here but have a bitter taste in my mouth working over a thousand hours a year for the government, in taxes. So in January I went on the internet trying to figure out where all my tax money was going and why on earth everyone wanted to stay in North Dakota. I think I have found the answer. I was raised poor, and started my first business at the age of 21 failed by the age of 23. I was a logger and think I knew the housing bubble popped before Peter Schiff did, as I would learn later. I know I don’t want to live in a camper and raise a family nor do I trust any broker to watch over the money I have given blood sweat and tears to acquire. All the assets I have depreciate over time and I finally want my savings to work for me. Sorry for the bad grammar the public schools failed on me as bad as I failed on them.