Women find their calling in nontraditional apprenticeships
MARIA YOUNG, Charleston Gazette-Mail
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Just a few months after Angel George became a single mom to two pre-teen nephews, COVID-19 hit, bringing with it a kind of chaos that was frightening, now that she was a parent.
“I actually received an email from my company and they told me that they wanted me to finish out the work day and that they would be having to let me go because of COVID, which is kind of like a hard hit, you know?” she said.
She has an undergraduate degree in fine arts that she’s passionate about but it hadn’t led to the kind of stability she needed. After the layoff, she applied for food stamps briefly, and launched an online job search that didn’t seem promising at the time.