Tag: Challenging Careers
Column: Home health aide recounts trials and triumphs
A typical day might find Peg Lijoi running errands, taking a patient out to dine or cooking a favorite meal, but there’s no such thing as a typical day.
Column: Farrier Ken Boaz’s skill set straddles professions
Horses in the region know they have a friend when Ken Boaz arrives at their stables.
Column: Fishkill Home Depot manager offers a helping hand
A merchandising manager of The Home Depot in Fishkill seeks to make summer holiday festivities special for employees and customers.
Column: Ad manager goes back to school, masters pet grooming
Ownership of The Golden Dog Grooming Salon & Spa in Wappingers Falls is a midlife career for a veteran newspaper advertising manager.
Column: Bridge engineer builds a new life in the U.S.
Ukrainian-born Svetlana McLaughlin builds a career as a bridge engineer in the Hudson Valley.
Column: Middletown chef brings his talents on the road
Steve Schultz is part of a traveling team opening new accounts, mentoring chefs and filling in for absent chefs on behalf of Flik International.
Column: SBDC gives life, or lifeline, to businesses
Arnaldo Sehwerert leads the mid-Hudson office of the Small Business Development Center in its efforts to help people start businesses or expand.
Column: Inspiration wrapped in a bow
The founder of Group M in Nyack sends clients inspirational gifts for the holidays.
Column: Living on the air in Rockland County
Kerry Potter can’t contain her enthusiasm for working with what she terms “a colorful group of co-workers.”
Column: Catering director acts as bride’s best friend
As director of catering for the Crowne Plaza in Suffern, Theresa Brown arranges about 100 events a year.
Column: A hands-on effort to get people back in shape
Challenging Careers: With an aging population, more patients are coming to physical therapist John Astrab.
Column: Farmers, kids reap benefits of Hudson Valley Fresh
Challenging Careers: Sam Simon leads the dairy cooperative, which produces milk that is proving popular among the region's students.
Column: Helping Putnam’s seniors stay happy and healthy
Patricia Sheehy leads a team in addressing the challenge of a rural county having a large population of seniors.
Column: Onion farmer advocates for others in his field
Challenging Careers: Christopher Pawelski of Pawelski Farms in Florida decided to exercise his extraordinary skill in communications on behalf of other farmers.
Column: Blacksmithing lives on with an artist’s touch
Challenging Careers: A couple organizes metalsmiths to handcraft custom architectural and ornamental work that requires artistic and scientific know-how.