In this city, it's not just old buildings that can get second chances. With Michigan's unemployment rate hovering around 13%, Fortune interviewed five Detroiters who turned their layoffs into new livelihoods, creating opportunities in new industries and as entrepreneurs. Lessons learned from the D? Read on.
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In Detroit you will find a guy who creates a new twist on the
lemonade-out-of-lemons bromide: building furniture from the remains of
demolished houses. Here you will discover laid-off corporate executives
opening up companies on their own, and assembly-line workers going back
to school for nursing credentials. Here you will find blue-collar and
white-collar workers catching the green wave.
"This city is a
blank slate," says Detroit's Nicole Rupersburg, 29, who relaunched
herself as a culinary tour guide after being laid off. "It's not a world
of wealth and prestige and structure," she says. "Detroit is what you
make of it, and here you are what you make of yourself."
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