[Ralo]

Lots of tradesmen will go "up north" into the oil fields for some hard hard labour but with incredible pay.

Most do it once or twice in their life for a couple years and come back to normal relaxed day job (although some are absolute champions and will tough it out long term).

I've always figured a job like this at Nvidia would be the equivalent of "I'm going to go up north for a while and come back".