Want a job? Try New Orleans

Nicole Guinchard left home with a fine arts degree nearly two years ago to find work in Alaska. Now she's back, hoping to land a job waiting tables at a top restaurant and support family members who lost their homes.

"The reason I left was because there weren't many job opportunities in New Orleans," she said. "It took a hurricane to change all that."

Jobs are so plentiful and paying so well that some residents are slowly returning after fleeing from Hurricane Katrina. Many are stymied, though, because there are few places to live and rental rates for undamaged apartments have doubled.

Ship builders, fast-food restaurants and construction companies are desperate to find workers, enticing job seekers with free laundry service and signing bonuses.

It's like that everywhere along the Gulf Coast.

"People are begging you to come to work," said Charles Dupre, of Baton Rouge, a former salesman who said he was willing to make a two-hour commute each way because the wages are so high. He spoke with recruiters from a shipbuilding yard and from Home Depot about a sales job.

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Source - The Courier-Journal


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