This is something that I thought about yesterday also. My home town (I live very far from there now), is very rural, and well, dying. Not many jobs/ industries left. Pay kind of sucks there too. Plenty of meth and heroin though.
I have a high school friend who still lives there, and she's worked out some good jobs for herself working remotely. She also homeschools her son. So, by taking remote jobs with Amazon and other companies like that, she has managed to make decent money (especially for the rural area). She actually started helping others by having classes at the library on how to get in on that gig. (Like, make sure you can type, and can spell, and have dedicated time and a home office, and proper equipment, plus high speed internet).
Now she's got a full time job for a different company (still a remote job) managing other people.
Anyway, since she's generally very helpful, she has also been sharing other local job opening on her FB wall. Yesterday, I read one of them. It sounded decent at first - sort of. Competitive salary, 3% 401k match, 80% company paid health premiums, etc. (No word on what "competitive" is.) Must have experience with Excel, Word and Quick Books. Must be able to multi-task. So basically looking for highly skilled administrative personnel.
Until they got to...
5 days of vacation after 1 year (52 weeks of service).
So I said "That means you cannot take a single day of vacation in the first year??" (I'm sure there are standard holidays, but no more than 9.
She said "huh, I did not notice that, weird". A fellow classmate said "that's pretty standard".
So, if your kids get sick...what??
This is what is considered a "good" job there? Just go ahead and work 52 weeks x 5 days and THEN we'll let you have 5 WHOLE DAYS OFF.