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I Love My Trade: Joe Innocenti, HVAC
In honor of #NationalSkilledTradesDay May 6, 2020, we have launched a series called I Love My Trade. We connected on social media with...

Terry Bierwirth
May 3, 20201 min read
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I Love My Trade - Joe Brown, Welder
In honor of #NationalSkilledTradesDay, May 6, 2020, we're launching a series called I Love My Trade. We connected with Joe Brown on...

Terry Bierwirth
May 3, 20202 min read
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I Love My Trade - Kris Albro: Welder, Fabricator, and Blacksmith
In honor of #NationalSkilledTradesDay May 6, 2020, we're launching a series called I Love My Trade. We connected with Kris Albro on...

Terry Bierwirth
May 3, 20202 min read
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I Love My Trade - David Obie, Welder
In honor of #NationalSkilledTradesDay May 6, 2020, we're launching a series called I Love My Trade. We connected on social media with...

Terry Bierwirth
May 3, 20202 min read
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Confessions of an Architect: Tradespeople Taught Me How to Build by Megan Peters
As a recent architecture school grad on the path to licensure, I made the decision to work for many years at a design + build...

Terry Bierwirth
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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Exploring The Skilled Trades 6 Recession-Proof Trades Careers
This post is a Gen T blog post from 11/5/2019 Written by Richard Stockton
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Terry Bierwirth
Mar 9, 20203 min read
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Change Your Career: Part II Why Years Later, Rachel Chose to Become an Electrician
In Part I entitled "A Career in Skilled Trades Creates Purpose, Promise, and Pay for Rachel," I wrote about how I met Rachel, a...

Terry Bierwirth
Feb 24, 20204 min read
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Shop Class Sparks a Student's Imagination
February is CTE month. For those who are unaware, CTE in the world of education is defined as career and technical education, a term...

Terry Bierwirth
Feb 15, 20202 min read
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Relationships between CTE Teachers and Students are Stronger
February is CTE month. For those who are unaware, CTE in the world of education is defined as career and technical education, a term...

Terry Bierwirth
Feb 12, 20202 min read
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Move Skilled Trades to Top of the List
Written by guest blogger Ruth Vettrus I recently read an article that Teen Vogue published about options after high school graduation,...

Terry Bierwirth
Feb 12, 20202 min read
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Change Your Career: Part I A Career in Skilled Trades Creates Purpose, Pay and Promise for Rachel
This is a two-part series about an electrical apprentice named Rachel. Part I describes how I met Rachel while she was on a job site...

Terry Bierwirth
Jan 15, 20204 min read
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Metal: His Passion, Now His Work
My Work My Future is an organization dedicated to promoting career pathways in the skilled trades. As a connector and resource provider,...

Terry Bierwirth
Oct 3, 20191 min read
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Hayward Field Renovation in Eugene, OR uses New Technologies in Construction
This is an amazing project right here in our own backyard. The redesigned Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus. We drive or...

Terry Bierwirth
Sep 3, 20191 min read
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College Debt Just Isn't Cool Anymore
College isnโt for everyone, yet changing the institutional mentality is like trying to turn a supertanker around in the middle of the...

Terry Bierwirth
Sep 2, 20194 min read
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Choose a Job You Love; Never Work a Day in Your Life
Written by John Qualman Confucius say this long ago but its wisdom endures today. Imagineโฆ how much more productive we, our friends, our...

Terry Bierwirth
Aug 14, 20191 min read
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