If you like potatoes...
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9/26/2007
I grew up in Blackfoot, and returned after traveling the West Coast and living in San Francisco for several years. The economy is terrible. There isn't much you can do but work in the potato factories or WalMart. The pay is horrible. I was working a management level job that I normally got paid $50K in CA, and was getting paid $11 an hour- it was very degrading. Men can make more in labor jobs or construction, but there just isn't much for female workers and they are marginalized to the lowest paying positions in factory work, retail, or office jobs. I moved here so that my parents could be close to my son, but I need to move because I don't see any oppurtunities for me in the workforce, and I hate giving one penny of my hard earned money to WalMart, because there is nowhere else to shop anymore.
Tanis | Blackfoot, ID