Professionals find jobs back in rural hometowns
| July 28, 2008 |  View for printing |
Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of his family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.
Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.
Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.
By SUE LINDSEY
The Associated Press
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