Professionals find jobs back in rural hometowns

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

Full Story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008076771_ruraljobs28.html

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