Wired for Success: From Homeless Shelter to High-Paying Job

Women in Trades Series: High-Voltage Technician Reinvented Herself at Orleans.

Everyone has their own version of rock bottom. Last summer, Alison Battestelli found hers. She had recently moved from a homeless shelter into her inlaws Oxford Circle home. She was stuck in a dead-end retail job and trying to support her disabled husband as well as their 8-month-old daughter. And she was depressed.

But Battestelli also had an idea. She wanted to reinvent herself, wanted to start a new career. So she went onto the Internet and found a link to the Residential and Commercial Electricity training program offered by Orleans Technical College. Six months later, Battestelli landed a lucrative new job as an apprentice high-voltage technician.

Photo credit: Northeast Times, Donna Dipaolo

— Alison Battestelli, Orleans Tech Graduate, Class of 2016

(March 2016)

There’s no better time than now to get started on the admissions process for Orleans Technical College’s summer Electrical session starting in June 2016. Apply Now!

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