Since December 2023, and after 24 years of book-keeping and similar clerical work, Redondra Stewart has been retired from the Pembroke location of Nutrien Ag Solutions.
But Thursday afternoon, just before 2 PM, she got the urge to stop through Cadiz and The Way Christian Youth Center — and visit the Third Annual Trigg County Chamber of Commerce and West Kentucky Workforce Board Job Fair.
Like many her age, the slowdown doesn’t fit what she wants, or what she needs.
She said she may try retirement again “70, or after,” and she learned about this job fair through an interview on WKDZ and her husband’s niece, Beth Sumner — who also happens to be the Trigg Chamber’s Director of Membership.
As a “numbers person,” she’s interested in administrative, office and clerical assignments, and wants to get back into the mix part-time or full-time — and particularly in agriculture.
Just something that keeps her busy. Something that takes up her time. She went right into work from a business co-op in high school, and hasn’t had much of a chance to reflect.
Thirty years ago, she would have turned pages in a local or regional newspaper for the classified ads to seek a job. That’s not the case in 2024.
Sumner, meanwhile, said the foot traffic was strong all day, but particularly refreshing in the morning — when students from Trigg County High School made their way across the street, looking for an opportunity to make their shift from childhood to adulthood more lucrative.
One such student, she said, was more than ready.
In all, 16 different businesses had a kiosk: the U.S. Army, Marquette Transportation, PACS/Kynect, Walmart, PRIDE Industries, Manpower, Shady Lawn Nursing and Rehab, EZ-ACCESS and Homecare Products Inc., Trigg County Hospital, Kentucky State Penitentiary, JTEKT Column Systems North America, Prizer Point Marina and Resort, Western Kentucky Medical Group, Integrity Builders LLC, Trigg County Adult Education and Trigg County Schools.
Officials from Prizer Point noted more than 25 applications were filled out on Thursday alone.
