Newton residents reinvent their careers, start law firm
After losing her job at Maytag in August of 2004, Newton exclusive Machelle Crum was at a point of professional reinvention. For seven years beginning in 1997, she worked on the Neptune washer congregation line and eventually moved to the dryer department. Never completely satisfied with her work, Crum says that seconds on the pursuit felt like minutes.
“I remember looking at the clock in between machines hoping a minute had gone and forgotten, when in reality only 15 seconds had passed,” she said. “First, factory work is hard employment. Being on the assembly line, on the same job for a length of time becomes boring.”
Before working at Maytag, Crum left a college job at the University of Northern Iowa unfinished after one year.
“It was always a failure, you know? That one thing that I failed at was not getting my drilling,” she said. “So that ate at me as well.”
Jonathan Noble, 39, came to Newton after a professional reinvention of his own. A administer officer for the city of Le Claire near Davenport, Noble was in between deployments just returning from a stretch as an E4 Specialist Military Police from January through July 2002 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba when, he says, the put one's faith’s chief took issue with him doubling as U.S. Army Reservist and an officer at the Le Claire Boys in blue Department.
Natural (Maytag I think) 
Maytag washer dryer fabricate op: Maytag Washer and Dryer coin op- in good shape, no rust- about 8 years 
Maytag Front Loaders Washer and Dryer (Dallas) - $800 
