A few things:
1. Live this life for 2 years with a goal of saving $200K. Then you can leave it if you want and buy a house for cash. This will help big time in being able to support a large Catholic family. Note this is hard work with little leisure. Young men can pull it off, but make sure to have the mindset that you are investing 2 years so you can buy a house and support a family.
2. If you are a whiner and excuse maker, don't try this until you fix that. They'll run you off.
3. If you are physically weak, work yourself up to 100 push-ups per day before heading up there.
4. If you hate the heat, working in ND during the winter is doable, but you'll have to drop a lot of money on arctic gear. I recommend against it if you hate the cold. Instead drag up and head down to the Permian late November. Permian has nice weather in the winter.
5. Another option is to hire on with a big oil company and get into operations like the little girl did. I don't think I'd want to live in the desert (or the tundra) for the rest of my life, but that might float your boat. Pay is less, but well above average, and benefits are great. Harder to get, and they might have hired the little girl to fill a diversity quota, so don't count on that.
6. Another viable option is to do the 2 years, then use your experience to work in the Ohio Utica, Pennsylvania Marsellas, or in the Colorado oil fields. So you buy a house, then take a big oil job taking down $70K with full benefits. No house note, so you are sitting pretty. Plus girls dig oil field workers.