When Jamie Williams was choosing a college major a dozen years ago, she had no grand plans for a career in manufacturing. She started out in elementary education, but to pay her way through school she labored on the paint line at KI, a furniture manufacturer in Green Bay, Wis.
The job was repetitive — hanging and removing hooks to mount parts for painting — and the plant sweltered in summer, but it paid better than the alternatives, so she stuck it out.
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