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Women: Want to make good money like your male counterparts? A job in the skilled trades may be just the ticket. Generally speaking, women earn only about 80 cents on the dollar compared with men
By Anne Holub The coronavirus pandemic has badly burned the restaurant business. Millions of the nation’s 15.6 million restaurant workers are getting by on gig work or unemployment insurance. Many restaurants will never recover, leaving
By Katherine Gustafson America has a skills problem, or more accurately, a massive skills gap. There are too many open jobs and too many job hunters with skills that don’t match up. Even those who
By Benyamin Cohen What do an occupational therapy assistant, a solar panel installer and an app developer have in common? They all work in skilled trades jobs that are among the fastest-growing jobs in America
By Michael d’Estries For decades, earning a bachelor’s degree has been seen as the golden ticket to achieving the American Dream, a kind of cure-all checkbox that guarantees economic success. The reality is far less
When Matthew McVay was younger, he hopped around between jobs. He was a bartender, a salesman, even a tree farmer. But he’s had the most joy and success with the career he eventually landed on
Being a plumber runs in the family for Shawn Powell, whose father and grandfather were both plumbers. So it's not surprising that Powell, a master plumber for Superior Water and Air in the Salt Lake
Rachel Ratican wants her kids to understand the power of pride — pride in helping your community and pride in yourself when you do a good job. She discovered her pride and strength as a
Criminal investigative work is nothing like what you see on TV. Donald Martin, who served as a criminal investigator and now teaches investigators, says there's a lot more attention to detail involved in solving cases
Allison Milstone has been a veterinary technician since 2002. The 49-year-old says she always knew this was what she would do with her life — it just took her some time to get there. She
Edwin Gonzalez loves working with new technology, but he says the real secret to doing well in his line of work has more to do with people than computers. The 27-year-old has worked at TAIT
Catherine Shaw is a Registered Dietitian and a certified specialist in obesity and weight management for the Medical Weight Management Program at WVU Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia. "I wish I had known that being
Casey Williams is only 37, but he's got more experience in the security solutions industry than many of his peers. He credits his success to an early start — and an insatiable curiosity. He started
Nothing creates opportunity like a heavy production week when your team is short-staffed. That's what Robin O'Neill quickly learned when she joined WarnerMedia Studios in Atlanta as a technical manager in 2016. O'Neill, 26, says
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