CHATTANOOGA, TN -- For nearly 30 years—since she was in high school—Georgia Ghearing had worked as a chef for various catering companies in Chattanooga. But when the pandemic put her out of a job, she had some big questions in front of her: How was she going to pay the bills? What was she going to do for work? How was she going to start over?

While sitting at home, Ghearing came to the conclusion that she was really good at corralling her younger, usually male colleagues and working in really hot, dangerous kitchens, "which led to deciding to become a welder," she says in a phone interview. "It's essentially the same thing."

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