Quinn Thurin (left), a branch manager with Cressy & Everett Real Estate, mentors Joy Burch, a Cressy & Everett Real Estate broker, as they walk through a home Friday in Granger. Staff photo by Robert Franklin
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A real estate market that has been booming the past several years has attracted the attention of workers looking for a new career.
And the coronavirus pandemic has helped fuel the trend, as real estate agents have been largely able to conduct business as usual with little or no human contact.
That’s what prompted Joy Burch to move to real estate after a decade as a lab tech worker in healthcare.
“It got to a point where I feared going to work and getting exposed,” Burch said.
But she also was looking for something with more flexibility, especially since she had two kids at home for remote learning through parts of the pandemic.
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