Our Blog

"Nailed It": Finding Confidence in the Trades

We checked in with a few members of the WerkForce—Truewerk’s team of ambassadors—to ask them the question: What was the job where you found strength in your abilities and felt like you truly “naile...

Small Business Owner Highlight: Valon Quamina

Valon Quamina is a second-generation carpenter and contractor based in Brooklyn, NY. From growing up on job sites with his father to studying architecture and starting a computer company, he finall...

Skilled Trade Jobs: Entrepreneur

If you’ve been around Truewerk for a bit, you’ll notice we’ve been talking about trading up. But what does Trade Up really mean? To us, it represents the decision to take your creativity, passion ...

The Skilled Trades Are a Step Up

“My mother calls it ‘The Order of Precedence’. It goes something like: finish high school, go to college, get married — very traditionally boomer expectations in my opinion.” This was the path True...

SUPPORTING WOMEN IN SKILLED TRADES

There’s a misconception that the skilled trades are “manly” careers. Given that women make up about nine percent of the construction workforce and only three percent of the building trades, it’s no...

INDUSTRIAL ATHLETE HIGHLIGHT: PATRICK LETOURNEAU

Check out Patrick Letourneau of Blackbird Finish Carpentry in the video below. His story is like many of ours. His dad was a builder and he realized he wanted to get into building, but didn't have ...