Swapping laptops for hammers: ‘Great Resignation’ boosts interest in trades
Simon Rios
March 7, 2022
Danielle Chagnon spent 15 years teaching math. But now, she’s spending her days in Boston’s North End learning another skill where she’s found accuracy matters just as much as it does in math: carpentry.
“There’s so many little details that you’d never think of to make something that’s supposed to be unnoticeable,” Chagnon said, holding up a section of window moulding amid the screeching of saws and the smell of cut pine.
The 38-year-old carpentry student is one of millions of Americans workers who are part of the Great Resignation, leaving jobs during the pandemic and embarking on new careers.
