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Old 07-25-2008, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Somewhere in Texas
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I definitely will welcome Michigan workers to Texas. People mention surviving the Mexican invasion and we'll survive this too. What about the Katrina invasion? I'm not sure we'll ever recover from that.
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Old 07-25-2008, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Michigan workers can find jobs quick in the Houston area. The refineries are hiring high school graduates (or was it people with a 2-year degree, don't remember) right now for $30 an hour.
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Old 07-25-2008, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Waco, TX
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Michigan workers can find jobs quick in the Houston area. The refineries are hiring high school graduates (or was it people with a 2-year degree, don't remember) right now for $30 an hour.
Have any resources on that? Know in general which companies that may be?

Thanks.
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Old 07-25-2008, 01:15 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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There was a story about that in the Austin Chronicle a few weeks ago. Said they were snatching up people fresh out of high school in a lot of instances because they need employees so bad.
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Old 07-25-2008, 02:18 PM
 
Location: I-35
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Remember Hurricane katrina and how so many people started their lives over in Texas. If you ready to enjoy life and more freedom and hot weather come on to Texas. We welcome whatever you can bring to the table, small businesses, automotive, health and beauty because the women and guys like to be fly. And there is room from Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, West TX, and parts of East TX(it is backwardz out thrr) I think that 500K will move to Texas, ATL, and Charlotte.
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Old 07-25-2008, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Have any resources on that? Know in general which companies that may be?

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Yes I do. Here is an article on it from the Washington Post (it's on the Austin-Statesman site though).

High oil prices are a new pipeline for prosperity in Houston (broken link)

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Machine shops have more work than they can handle. Students from the local community college are being snapped up for $30-an-hour plant operator jobs, sometimes before they complete their two-year training programs, part of an intensifying scramble for qualified workers.

Employment in the Houston area has grown 2.8 percent in the past year, the highest rate among the nation's 39 largest metropolitan areas and more than nine times the national rate. Area building permits are up, along with the amount of cargo moving through local ports. More than 1,800 oil and gas rigs, many of them belonging to the vast energy companies headquartered in Houston, are in operation across the country, the highest number since the mid-1980s.
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And Houston's oil industry has gone global.

Many of the jobs here are related to the increasingly high-tech work of pinpointing oil and gas reserves around the world, and designing and making the tools to tap them rather than the dangerous and backbreaking work of operating oil and gas rigs.

"To the extent that Houston is the energy capital of the world, (it) is not because we have a lot of hard hats, but because we have a lot of technology," said Barton Smith, director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting.

The Houston economy is far more diverse than it was in the 1980s. Although energy has been the biggest engine in the Houston region's economic surge, it is not the only one.

The city is also home to the Texas Medical Center, a collection of 46 hospitals, research centers and medical schools that together employ more than 73,000 people in an industry that is largely immune to the ups and downs of the economy. Back in the 1980s, energy accounted for about 70 percent of the jobs here.

In addition, the city never attracted the level of speculation that jacked up home prices elsewhere, so the national real estate shakeout has had little effect. Also, the weak dollar has bolstered exports at the port here, the nation's second busiest.
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Old 07-25-2008, 06:12 PM
 
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Yahoo Hot jobs top cities.

Top cities:
  • Jobs in Atlanta (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Atlanta-GA - broken link)
  • Jobs in New York (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-New_York-NY - broken link)
  • Jobs in Houston (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Houston-TX - broken link)
  • Jobs in San Antonio (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-San_Antonio-TX - broken link)
  • Jobs in Dallas (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Dallas-TX - broken link)
  • Jobs in Austin (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Austin-TX - broken link)
  • Jobs in Los Angeles (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Los_Angeles-CA - broken link)
  • Jobs in Tampa (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Tampa-FL - broken link)
  • Jobs in Denver (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Denver-CO - broken link)
  • Jobs in Chicago (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Chicago-IL - broken link)
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Old 07-25-2008, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Rochester NY
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We are misplaced Texans living in NY because my husband would of been unemployed in Texas if we hadn't moved 6 yrs. ago. My husband said no to a transfer from Plano to Western NY at first. Then when he was sent up here in January to train his replacement for his company, he decided that winter wasn't so bad up here after all. I do miss family, friends and East Texas, but my husband still hasn't found a job in Texas that will pay him what he makes now here. So my advice to anyone planning on moving to Texas, find you a job first! BTW, eventually my husband plan on retiring from business and becoming a high school math teacher. Then we willl be moving to one of those small East Texas towns.
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Old 07-25-2008, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Yahoo Hot jobs top cities.

Top cities:
  • Jobs in Atlanta (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Atlanta-GA - broken link)
  • • Jobs in New York (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-New_York-NY - broken link)
  • • Jobs in Houston (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Houston-TX - broken link)
  • • Jobs in San Antonio (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-San_Antonio-TX - broken link)
  • • Jobs in Dallas (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Dallas-TX - broken link)
  • • Jobs in Austin (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Austin-TX - broken link)
  • • Jobs in Los Angeles (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Los_Angeles-CA - broken link)
  • • Jobs in Tampa (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Tampa-FL - broken link)
  • • Jobs in Denver (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Denver-CO - broken link)
  • • Jobs in Chicago (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs-l-Chicago-IL - broken link)
Where did this list come from? You have a source?

Anyway, found these:

Best Cities For Young Professionals - Forbes.com (Houston only city in Texas in the top 5)

Best Cities For Jobs In 2008 - Forbes.com

Best Cities For Recent College Grads - Forbes.com (Houston, DFW, and Austin top the list; SA not on there unfortunately)
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Old 07-25-2008, 09:35 PM
 
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OK, I read the article and nowhere did it say that millions of people were planning to come to Texas. Rather, those quoted said that their families are in Michigan and that's where they want to stay.

So, what's the point?
lol yea I am thinking the same. Most will stay in Michigan and look for work there. If they become depressed they will just find other stuff to do or move in with family. If they are smart they will relocate but I do not think the vast majority will do that. Most will be like the old folks in small towns who watch as the small town's economy collapses in on itself and all the young people desert the small town for better times.
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