“In 1998, she saw a flyer from Job Corps, a federal program that offers young people preapprenticeship training and a chance to finish high school. The flyer listed different jobs: plumber, electrician, carpenter, secretary, and more.
I served as an apprentice die maker and then as an apprentice electrician. I spent a year working through the chairs of the white-collar office jobs before ever being allowed to assume the responsibilities of an industrial engineer. I returned to this valley twice, as a foreman and then ...