Chef’s Whites to Factory Floor: GE Aerospace’s Apprenticeship Program Showed One Technician a New Career Path

Andrew Dubrule began his career as a chef. Armed with a culinary arts degree from the State University of New York at Cobleskill, he interned at the University of the Arts in Florence, Italy, and worked for years at restaurants in New York City. But when he and his wife decided to start a family, he had a change of heart. In 2019, Dubrule traded in the grueling hours and uncertain future of restaurant life for a job as a machine operator at GE Aerospace’s Rutland, Vermont, plant.