When Beth Minor, 60, lost her job after 30 years in the corporate world, it was a wake-up call the former telecommunications and technology executive didn’t know she needed.

Although she’d assumed she wouldn’t work in tech forever, she’d been unable to take the leap without the extra push. “I knew the job market is tough for people my age,” she said. “But you don’t fully understand it until you’re living it.”

Newly unemployed, she initially began bartending for a friend’s new restaurant in Cumming.

“It kept me active, gave me purpose, and honestly, it was a lot of fun,” she said. Returning to her roots in hospitality after three decades was fairly effortless, “like riding a bike,” even if a bit different. Workers call out of work more frequently and there’s less fighting over shifts tha

See Full Page