Alternative Careers 04: Carpenter
He was a theatre actor with years of experience and had a promising future ahead of him, having graduated from Yale-NUS College.
But 27-year-old Ziyad Ahmad Bahagrib lost the joy in what he did and chose to forfeit better pay in order to chase his childhood dream of being a carpenter instead.
Here’s his peculiar story of going from to an actor, to a carpenter apprentice and finally, a full-fledged carpenter.
