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May 6, 2007
For 10 years, Lisa Annee worked in Maytag's factory in Newton, assembling dryer parts for a good-paying but "mindless" job that she wished she didn't have to have.
In the fall of 2004, shortly after the birth of her second child, the job went away and Annee, 35, went back to school under a federal retraining program. "I never really had any real anxiety, because in the back of my mind I knew getting laid off was really a good thing for me," said Annee, whose husband also lost his Maytag job in December. Now he works at the biodiesel plant in Newton.
"Life is just a lot better for us right now," she says.
Through her education at Des Moines Area Community College, Annee became a certified medical assistant and now works for Dr. Gautam Kakade, who moved to Newton last year and opened an internal medicine practice.
"I'm hoping his business expands so I can just stay here," Annee said. "I love working here and living here. My husband and I knew we absolutely didn't want to leave."
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