U.P. entrepreneur talks about his career change

You may have seen those lighted drink cozies (or koozies, in this story) around; you may not know they were invented here in the U.P. The inventor tells his story in this post on Salon.com, one of a series on reinventing yourself in a recession.

Excerpt: My dad was a heating guy. As a kid, I’d help him out with his side jobs on Saturdays and Sundays. The profession was just second nature to me after school. I took a job at a place that put heating systems into new houses. But when the economy went bad, there was no new construction. When the layoff came, in 2008, my boss was straightforward about it. John’s a really good guy. I understood it was what he had to do.

A few months later, I was home one night watching the Home Shopping Network. It was one of those late nights when I was trying to figure out how I was going to get the mortgage paid.

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Source: Salon.com