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Fort McMurray-or Fort McMoney, as some call it - is a place you are going to meet to your financial dreams. For many people, work on the massive Oilsands projects in the region that is exactly what you are doing.

Lou Doucette, a Carpenter from PEI, worked in Fort McMurray 2006 since move from one project into another as an employee of the Ledcor. "When I first arrived, I knew not what to expect", says Lou. "But I had a plan to come and work for my future, my family the future."

Working in the land of black gold rush comes with a price though. Lou, says "I can say how difficult it is to miss the important things you usually celebrate as a family", "If your kid's birthday or your own anniversary." "There's only so much that the lives of your family happens while you're away."
This brings us back to the reason, why workers come to Fort McMurray money. I would ask Lou, how much he would make here in a year unlike at home, and his answer is three to four times the amount. "Here are my choices, I never had that before," he says. "There are my daughter chances for school we could only have dreamed".

But not everyone is able to the discipline needed to practice to build for the future. Brian MacDonald is from Nova Scotia and in the Oilsands JV driver since 2004. "Many young children get what you can see first salary account and everything, is a brand new car or truck, maybe a boat." Go to the Bank and credit for one based on making $ 100,000 a year, and now you are again equal to living salary account to salary account. When a project it can often two to three months before another starts. "Boom bust, follow always so that you would plan it better."

Steve Normand, who works for Flatiron and is golden, BC, says that if it not for the Oilsands he will fight would end its fulfil permanent home in the mountain community. "I would be happy to make a quarter from which I am doing what here do the same job." I love my community in Golden though, which is, why I do go back every chance. "I spend the money, the I in the Oilsands in Golden make."

Listen to Steve, I am impressed by how great the influence of Oilsands on the national economy is. It really became the economic lifeblood of many communities throughout the country. Some are too large the demands of work in the Oilsands on your personal life. But for others, the decision to come in on the black gold rush is one that rewards you and their families for many years to come.