This research explores the interface of the careers of work and marriage-family among new workers in any energy-related impacted community in Wyoming. This impact has brought many changes to the Rocky Mountain West, including the migration of thousands of persons to fill the jobs created by the extraction, processing and construction operations. The research involves an empirically grounded examination of the stages in the work career of these largely manual, often mobile workers and the process of marriage-family that confronts and frequently conflicts with the conditions of work. In terms of these two careers, the research seeks to determine the major structural conditions of the population's lives, the points and processes of major decisions, and the modes of adaptation to these conditions. (Author)