Idaho Careers/Job Markets

[Cherokeeguide]

Not to mention no public land per se and unfortunately cowboys fans.

The beauty of public land is that it doesn't just belong to the public living next door to it.

I live in Tulsa. It is 230 miles to the 189,999 acre Honobia-Three Rivers WMA and the 363,000 acres of the Oklahoma portion of the Ouchita National Forest.

My sister lives in Killeen, TX and I'm in the process of moving there. Yeah, there's not much public land in Texas, but its only 270 miles from Killeen to the vast Honobia-Three Rivers WMA and Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma. It's just 40 miles further from Killeen, TX than it is for me now. Not enough to cry about. Definitely not "further enough" to make me stop hunting those areas. If I lived in Fort Worth, I'd be that much closer to over a half of a million acres of public hunting land.

I'm retired, so I can spend the whole Oklahoma general season in the field, if want to, or need to, but I haven't needed to, yet. The longest it has ever taken me to fill a tag at Hobobia-Three Rivers WMA or Ouachita N.F. is three days, and that's with seeing deer, but passing on shooting one, for whatever reason.

 

[ODB]

Everything within an hour will be fair game.

Sad but True...

 

[WRO]

The beauty of public land is that it doesn't just belong to the public living next door to it.

I live in Tulsa. It is 230 miles to the 189,999 acre Honobia-Three Rivers WMA and the 363,000 acres of the Oklahoma portion of the Ouchita National Forest.

My sister lives in Killeen, TX and I'm in the process of moving there. Yeah, there's not much public land in Texas, but its only 270 miles from Killeen to the vast Honobia-Three Rivers WMA and Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma. It's just 40 miles further from Killeen, TX than it is for me now. Not enough to cry about. Definitely not "further enough" to make me stop hunting those areas. If I lived in Fort Worth, I'd be that much closer to over a half of a million acres of public hunting land.

I'm retired, so I can spend the whole Oklahoma general season in the field, if want to, or need to, but I haven't needed to, yet. The longest it has ever taken me to fill a tag at Hobobia-Three Rivers WMA or Ouachita N.F. is three days, and that's with seeing deer, but passing on shooting one, for whatever reason.

I live 30 minutes from Millions of acres of blm and national forest.

I couldn’t imagine having to drive 3 hours to recreate again.


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[WRO]

Micron is building in MH, too?

No but micron has stated that they want all their major suppliers to have a presence in the valley within the next decade.


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[ShootOkHuntWorse]

Dont know anything about your industry, but lots of people commute to Spokane from the greater CDA area and you could easily find a nice place with 5 acres and a shop

“Easily” depends on how much money you can drop on a house. 5 acres with house and shop is going to topple 1mil within 40mins of Spokane without planning on putting lots of work into it.

 

[Weldor]

Well we all know it is hard to find a good paying job in rural america. That's why it stays that way. Unless your wealthy or self employed or retired wages are just not there.

 

[Customweld]

I'm surprised by the amount of PM jobs listed in the Boise area on Linkedin.

 

[Customweld]

Well we all know it is hard to find a good paying job in rural america. That's why it stays that way. Unless your wealthy or self employed or retired wages are just not there.

I tried hard to stay in the town I grew up in (population 900) but it was clear that I was going to have to starve to do it.

 

[ID_Matt]

Ahhh..... I can smell Potlatch already haha.

Laughed at this because I know exactly the smell you mean... Having said that I am used to the smell of corn silage and manure in southern idaho so anything else smells odd HA

 

[WRO]

I'm surprised by the amount of PM jobs listed in the Boise area on Linkedin.

It’s wild I get about 10 recruiters a week calling or emailing.


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[AZDC]

I’ll sometimes take a peak to see if there’s anything in my field in Idaho, Wyoming or Montana. It’s pretty standard to jump to different jobs in my industry to accelerate pay jumps. The only people hiring that are somewhat related to Aerospace and Defense seems to be Idaho National Labs but thats DOE (bleh). I did see a company called Schweitzer that looked interesting but they seem to be in Controls.

 

[High Climber]

“Easily” depends on how much money you can drop on a house. 5 acres with house and shop is going to topple 1mil within 40mins of Spokane without planning on putting lots of work into it.

Never said it’s affordable just easy to find lol

 

[Cherokeeguide]

I live 30 minutes from Millions of acres of blm and national forest.

I couldn’t imagine having to drive 3 hours to recreate again.


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I don't HAVE to drive three hours from Tulsa to recreate. I won't HAVE to drive three hours from Killeen, TX to do so, either. I do it now because I want to and because I can.

You can't imagine having to drive 3 hours to recreate and neither can I.

I also can't imagine limiting my recreational horizons to my own metaphorical back yard.

If I lived where you do, I'd still want to quail hunt on the Tonto National Forest north of Scottsdale, AZ. I still want to hunt whitetails in southeastern Oklahoma. I'd still want to fly fish San Diego Bay and the Laguna Madre.

I'd still be traveling to recreate, just like I did when I lived in Capistrano Beach, CA and had the Cleveland National Forest and BLM land at my back door and was in walking distance of the ocean.

 

[ShootOkHuntWorse]

Never said it’s affordable just easy to find lol

lol fair.

 

[WRO]

I don't HAVE to drive three hours from Tulsa to recreate. I won't HAVE to drive three hours from Killeen, TX to do so, either. I do it now because I want to and because I can.

You can't imagine having to drive 3 hours to recreate and neither can I.

I also can't imagine limiting my recreational horizons to my own metaphorical back yard.

If I lived where you do, I'd still want to quail hunt on the Tonto National Forest north of Scottsdale, AZ. I still want to hunt whitetails in southeastern Oklahoma. I'd still want to fly fish San Diego Bay and the Laguna Madre.

I'd still be traveling to recreate, just like I did when I lived in Capistrano Beach, CA and had the Cleveland National Forest and BLM land at my back door and was in walking distance of the ocean.

Can you go walk 20 miles if you wanted to on public land in 30 minutes from your door? I hunt 5 states a year, but it’s nice to toss the dogs in and kill wild birds and hunt deer on public ground within 30 minutes of my doorstep.

Texas has a serious lack of that kind of opportunity.

I might be missing something from the time I’ve spent working down there, but I failed to find any redeeming qualities besides the bbq.

 

[Joe Biss]

Currently living in southern Maine and I feel the same pain many of these desirable states are experiencing. I used to be able to walk off the front porch and hunt whitetail. Now you can’t walk a mile in any direction without reaching someone’s back yard. Since getting out of the Marine Corps in 2019 I’ve gone to great lengths in order to find uneducated/less pressured bucks and avoid running into other hunters.

Luckily I bought land and built a house before things got too out of hand, but many locals have been priced out of buying their own house by transplants from neighboring states. Southern Maine has become northern Massachusetts. Moving far north mitigates the riff raff, but doesn’t solve the whacky corrupt politics in the state itself.

We’re pretty set on Idaho or Wyoming. Hunting and fly fishing are very high on the priority list. Idaho seems to have a little more for recreational opportunity, but the lack of income tax, low cost of living and low population per capita makes Wyoming very appealing. The wife is nurse, so ~1hr from a decent hospital is preferred. I was a diesel mechanic in the MC, now run the rebuild shop in an industrial maintenance facility, but I have a BS in wildlife biology/conservation and this would be a great opportunity to make the career shift.

Any opinions, ideas, or tips welcome. Feel free to PM