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• Garrett Dodd is a 22-year-old welder in the North Dakota oil fields based in Watford City, North Dakota.
• He’s been unemployed since February.
• In the meantime, he’s started doing photography and media production, but he says he’s not done with welding just yet.
• This is his story, as told to Will Meyer.
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I moved to Watford City, North Dakota, from Fort Worth, Texas, in 2017. 

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I was part of a very active welding program in high school, and I had a really good teacher who got me interested in it. I started welding right out of high school. I worked for a city for a little while; I thought that’s where I was going to retire at one point in time. And thankfully