"Layoffs push some to take plunge as entrepreneurs"
READ MORE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette 9/2/12
CONGRATS to our local advertiser, JMG WOODWORKING, for making the paper!
May many opportunities come from this!!
May many opportunities come from this!!
Jim Gevry, 31, also saw opportunity from a layoff, since he had
experienced enough instability in his 10-year career to last a lifetime
and was looking for something a little more sure-footed.
Mr. Gevry, an interior woodworker and cabinetmaker, had spent the past 10 years working his way up the ladder to become a project manager for different Worcester-based companies. But he found it unsettling that every time money got tight the project manager would be the first to be laid off.
“That kind of job is expendable when it's time to cut corners,” he said.
For him, the logical — but nerve-wracking — choice was to venture out on his own. He now takes on jobs at his own pace, doing business as JMG Woodworking. Though he worries about the bills over the course of the next few years, it is so far, so good.
“It's stressful, but I'm busy,” he said. “I haven't had any trouble getting jobs, even though I am kind of learning as I go.”
Mr. Gevry, an interior woodworker and cabinetmaker, had spent the past 10 years working his way up the ladder to become a project manager for different Worcester-based companies. But he found it unsettling that every time money got tight the project manager would be the first to be laid off.
“That kind of job is expendable when it's time to cut corners,” he said.
For him, the logical — but nerve-wracking — choice was to venture out on his own. He now takes on jobs at his own pace, doing business as JMG Woodworking. Though he worries about the bills over the course of the next few years, it is so far, so good.
“It's stressful, but I'm busy,” he said. “I haven't had any trouble getting jobs, even though I am kind of learning as I go.”
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