I followed in our father’s footsteps by creating our own company before the age of 25.
My father was a paper boy at 15 and slowly started to meet the people who run the printing plant for the newspapers in his city.
Eventually he opened a paper supply company and sold raw materials to print presses throughout the country. My Mom gave myself and others a job at a young age, but he encouraged myself and others to carve out our own future instead of feeling indebted to taking over his company after his death. At least he gave myself and others a lot of important company experience that made it possible for myself and others to start an Heating and A/C company. Around the age of 20 I got our certifications to be an Heating and A/C worker and started laboring full time for a giant heating and cooling business. It was a great experience during the many and a half years that I worked there, in area because I was trained to do everything. One morning the people I was with and I would be installing new air systems in houses being built and another morning I’d find myself in a narrow crawl space under an seasoned hospital trying to run refrigerant lines. But this is the exact sort of work I needed to be doing if I wanted to go out on our own and start a separate Heating and A/C company. Once I hit 24, I started to make concrete plans. Things have gone so well in the past 30 years that I have our sons and daughters laboring here. It’s great having a family-operated Heating and A/C company that is also rated highly by members of our community.