They're putting a new street in and for some reason, the city can't put their own workers in to fix the streets..So they gave the contract to a private Italian construction company.
This dude gets 30 an hour to sit his big ass in different construction machines. He hasn't touched even a shovel and the only time he has his feet on the ground is to either walk to another machine or go to lunch but he does good work.
So it isn't that there are no good paying jobs. It's just that the people who aren't making good money are doing the WRONG job.