Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tabby Toney, 37, has left her career in tech to pursue welding.Courtesy of Tabby Toney Tabby Toney left her tech career for ...

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tabby Toney, a 37-year-old former software engineer in Oklahoma, about leaving tech for a blue-collar career. It's been edited for length and ...