{"id":569,"date":"2021-08-27T00:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/djcoregon.com\/skilledmag\/?p=569"},"modified":"2022-08-24T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:07:41","slug":"looking-anew-at-labor-recruitment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djcoregon.com\/skilledmag\/2021\/08\/27\/looking-anew-at-labor-recruitment-3\/","title":{"rendered":"From Medical Research To Construction, Carter Myers Leaves Positive Mark On People\u2019s Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

From medical research to construction, Carter Myers leaves positive mark on people\u2019s lives<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"from-medical-research-to-construction\"<\/p>\n

By MELODY FINNEMORE<\/p>\n

Carter Myers recalls working as a laborer for his father when he was 10 or 12 years old, helping out on the jobsites of custom homes his dad built in Arizona and Hawaii. He swore he would never work in construction again.<\/p>\n

Instead, he earned a degree in biochemistry from the University of Arizona and went to work as an infectious disease research associate at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute in Torrance, California.<\/p>\n

There, he researched targeted genes that were knocked out of Candida albicans and investigated their invasion in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. The cells were harvested directly from umbilical cords from an on-site labor and delivery ward and tested in animal assays. Candida albicans can cause urinary tract infections, genital yeast infections, oral thrush and other infections.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fun because I felt like I was helping people who were immunocompromised and had these diseases and people, still to this day, are dying from what is essentially bread mold. It\u2019s a cousin of that yeast strain. So, it felt good to do something positive and help people out,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n

However, the downside of research is that it often is a slow process and it can take several years to see the results. He found himself thinking about the more rapid gratification involved in construction work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a 12-year process. It\u2019s, max, a couple of years \u2013 and most of them are quicker \u2013 and just the satisfaction is a little quicker to come in construction than in research,\u201d he said. \u201cI like being able to see the daily progress, clients taking the keys and new business owners opening their doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Myers moved to Oregon in 2006 and went to work for Joseph Hughes Construction until The Great Recession forced layoffs three years later. He took a job in property management and built retirement homes for Bonaventure before rejoining Joseph Hughes Construction in 2015.<\/p>\n

Myers\u2019 portfolio ranges from a seismic upgrade for Portland\u2019s Center for Equity and Inclusion to a pre-engineered metal building in Happy Valley. He also works on tenant improvement projects and interior rehabilitations of older apartment units and other structures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like that I can see the progress, and it\u2019s kind of fun to be able to drive around and show my kids, \u2018Look, Dad built this.\u2019 It\u2019s tangible progress and results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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