{"id":7104,"date":"2012-05-09T10:47:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2012-05-09T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:47:52","slug":"jobless-in-idaho-promise-of-work-in-the-oilfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/09\/jobless-in-idaho-promise-of-work-in-the-oilfields\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless In Idaho: Promise Of Work In The Oilfields"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy Allen Brown<\/p>

Allen Brown is a single father with three teenage daughters. He lost his mill job in October, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

Idaho’s economy is moving in a positive direction, but it still hasn’t made up for the jobs lost during the Great Recession.\u00a0 Allen Brown got his layoff notice in the fall of 2011.\u00a0 Now, at 44-years-old, he’s waiting to start a new career.\u00a0 We check in with Brown for our continuing series Jobless In Idaho<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

By the middle of February, Lewiston, Idaho resident Allen Brown had set his sights on work in the oilfields and was making plans to head to Wyoming for new job training.<\/p>\n

Brown was laid off from the Clearwater Paper sawmill<\/a> late last year.\u00a0 After several weeks of job searching in Lewiston, Brown <\/del>met with a recruiter for oil services giant Schlumberger.\u00a0 He was promised a job<\/a> as an electronic tech,<\/strong> commuting out of state, after his February interview. <\/p>\n

Now, three months later, Brown hasn’t left for training camp.\u00a0 He’s still waiting.<\/p>\n

“I finally feel like I found a job and then all of a sudden it gets pulled out from under your feet,” Brown said recently.<\/p>\n

U.S. Recruiting president Ron Garrison is a job recruiter for Schlumberger.\u00a0 He’s sent<\/del> more than 400 Idahoans to Schlumberger in the last year.\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. Recruiting is the same company that hooked Brown up with Schlumberger.\u00a0 Garrison says he currently has about 50<\/del> people <\/strong>in his ‘inventory’ waiting to officially start work with the company.\u00a0 That includes Brown.<\/p>\n

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