That was after eight months of unanswered resumes, costly health insurance and shrinking prospects.
On the verge of becoming an unemployment statistic, the 59-year-old Ashland resident was one of the lucky ones.
A lifetime tinkerer and guitar player, Shields capitalized on a suggestion from his wife, Cindy, to build a new career doing something he loved.
Facing an uncertain future, he transformed his basement workshop into The Inventing Shed, a self-owned business in which he repairs guitars and builds customized models on request.
Tall and rangy, Shields spends his days in his basement and a new garage workshop, fixing guitars and amplifiers and handcrafting instruments from swamp ash, burled redwood and other kinds of exotic wood.
I'm sure by now you've seen some of those advertisements for an immense amount of plans for one low price. Well, as you've probably guessed, most of these are scams! Like your mother always said, if its too good to be true...
