Dream Job!

[Customweld]

I'm in no way affiliated with this highway district, but this would be damn near my dream job (probably not so much with my wife!). If you've ever been to Atlanta Id, you'd know why! Job description below:

Atlanta Highway District is seeking an Equipment Operator with experience in operating medium to heavy equipment. Responsibilities include Road and Bridge maintenance, blading, snow removal, ditch and culvert cleaning, and equipment maintenance. CDL and tanker truck endorsement required. New housing is available. This is a full time position. If you are interested in living and working at the Gateway of the Sawtooth Wilderness and the Headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Boise River

 

[KsRancher]

What is the wage?

 

[WeiserBucks]

What is the wage?

Probably $15hr

 

[Nickziegler]

In Atlanta? A dream job?

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[Customweld]

In Atlanta? A dream job?

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Not Atlanta GA. End of the road, Sawtooth Wilderness Atlanta ID.

 

[Customweld]

Probably $15hr

Probably not much more than that.

 

[Nickziegler]

Not Atlanta GA. End of the road, Sawtooth Wilderness Atlanta ID.

Gotcha. Ya thats much better haha

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[WeiserBucks]

Probably not much more than that.

I applied with Washington County Road and Bridge once and they started at $10.50hr

 

[TheTone]

Paid in scenery, taxes and living expenses as though you’re from generational wealth

 

[Customweld]

Paid in scenery, taxes and living expenses as though you’re from generational wealth

The type of area, where you risk becoming feral. In the winter, there is one road in and out. 70 miles of miserable washboard road

 

[peterk123]

If it was a dream job they would not have to advertise to find someone.

 

[Customweld]

If it was a dream job they would not have to advertise to find someone.

That's just for legalities!

 

[dr.mooseknuckles]

I had to double take.
You couldn't pay me in enough gold bullion to live in Atlanta, GA. Almost as bad as Memphrica

 

[TheTone]

The type of area, where you risk becoming feral. In the winter, there is one road in and out. 70 miles of miserable washboard road

 

[Doc Holliday]

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!

 

[Phaseolus]

I applied with Washington County Road and Bridge once and they started at $10.50hr

How long ago?

 

[GBHunter]

A person certainly would get real good operating a grader after running it up and down that middle fork road on a regular basis. Beautiful though.

 

[Customweld]

There used to be some interesting characters that lived up there. In 1997, we had a real bad rain on snow event right around New Years Day. The road into Atlanta had multiple rock slides, mud sides and washouts and was closed. I was working as a powder monkey for a road building company in Boise and got sent up there with a drill rig mounted on a D8 chassis to start opening the road up from the Boise side. A crew from Atlanta was working from the top down. We finally got through and had a rough, one truck wide road opened up.
I had to stay up and finish opening the road back to it's full width. I was working solo most of the time but had to start bringing someone up with me to guard my truck because the guys from Atlanta kept trying to high grade my powder and ANFO.
The last day, I sent the drill rig out on the lowboy. I headed down towards Boise and a house size boulder had slid down after the lowboy had went through. I had an Ingersoll air compressor and an air drill, so I crawled up on top of the boulder and commenced to drilling it. I hadn't noticed but a reporter from the Idaho Statesman had showed up and took a picture of me on top of that boulder. No hard hat, or any other ppe. Just a 22 year old kid doing what needed to be done. The next morning I was on the front page of the newspaper, my boss seen it and about blew a gasket!

 

[wowzers]

My wife loves it up there, but not enough to live there.

 

[Hnthrdr]

I thought this was for our dream jobs, like professional oil boy for the Victoria secrets bikini team, or professional elk hunter… etc …