What's the work situation like up in norcal
I don't know, man. Used to be pretty easy to get work on a farm and it paid well too. $20/hr was starting rate for labor. If you connected with someone and were a good worker, it was too easy. Since prop64, there's actually been a pretty harsh economic decline in the already declining economies of the emerald triangle. No more logging. No more fishing. No more weed.
Where I'm at is gentrifying pretty hard and in the next 10 years, as it becomes more and more a part of California as opposed to a rural outpost, it could very well end up a techier sort of place. Unless you're already well off and work fully remotely or live off family $$, there's not much here other than the beauty. There are some folks working for the last vestiges of the timber companies- lots of folks get out of the local university and end up working as biologists whose findings prop up the timber companies legal abilities to clear cut what have the potential to be the greatest carbon sinks on the planet (redwood forests).
Anyways, there's not a ton of work. Plenty of cashier, server, store type jobs, but other than that, I don't really know. Seems like most of the people working on the books farm work are making $15 or less without bennies.
Honestly, I don't know what the fuck a lot of people do to survive.