Plumas County Information

[akm4]

French? Not sure. Only offered Spanish when I was there....a million years ago..... I'll ask my nieces.

[MovingBuddy]

Jobs:

Jobs are hard to come by in Quincy and you mostly find service work though that's what I noticed cause I was little and from what my parents told me and Dad is a wise person too and doesn't just rush into things.

We lived in Quincy in the early/mid 90s and Dad was a pharmacist there and here is a brief version of the hell he/we wen't thru.

He worked as a pharmacist in Paradise at Payless but they layed everybody off when it changed to Rite Aid so he found work up in Quincy and we had visited there before and we loved that town.


When he worked there he didn't get all the benefits he was told and he was the ONLY pharmacists there cause the rest left due to being overworkd and underpayed.

Dad worked pretty much 7 days a week and almost NO payed vacations were allowed even though dad had worked up to 4.

I remember a summer when after working his butt off he had 1 day off and we hiked Mt Lassen and they beeped him on his pager WHILE we were hours away up a mountain so dad had to just ignore them. LOL. What else do you do when you are almost to the top of a mountain hours away? :P

The place has a high exchange rate of workers and dad lasted one of the longest there before we moved up here to Oregon in the winter of 1996/1997 right before the big flooding.

(more in next posts cause I suck at long posts)

[BlackShoe]

The Sierra Pacific sawmill recently had a major shutdown with the loss of 150 jobs,a huge blow to a small community.The unemployment rate in Plumas County is said to be nearly 20%.If employment is not an issue,the area is gorgeous.Going east from Paradise last October through Quincy was one of the most scenic drives that I have ever enjoyed.Highway 70 parallels the North fork of the Feather River and crosses several bridges and goes through two or three tunnels.Great trip,beautiful area.