Matt Dow started his construction career in 2005 after graduating from high school. As an employee for a couple of companies that built cellphone towers, he excavated tower foundations, built roads over mountains, graded for drainage, ran conduit — basically doing everything except install the electronics.
It was a great life until it wasn’t, says Dow, 35. “I was travelling all over New England, and I bought a house and had my first son. I did not want to live my life on the road.”
That was 2013, and he realized he needed to change his life. For about two years he
