Sheet metal industry eager to recruit women ($21 an hr PLUS benefits)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.startribune.com/local/228110781.html

Article by: GAIL ROSENBLUM , Star Tribune Updated: October 16, 2013 - 9:02 PM

The hours are reasonable. The work is interesting and, at times, artful. The starting wage is about $21 an hour plus benefits.

So on Monday, Buck Paulsrud threw an open house sweetened with Halloween-orange sugar cookies, hoping to entice a hard-to-convince demographic to consider his trade.

“Women don’t think this is for them,” said Paulsrud, training coordinator at the Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 10 Training Center in White Bear Lake.

“They are so underrepresented. We are doing everything in our power to change that.”

FULL story and photo at link.

[Starry Messenger]

1. I wish this was in CA.

I had a crap day and would love to do something else.