A contractor frustrated with spending another decade on job sites as a supervisor gets real advice from Mike Andes: as you scale, you pick between running operations for big projects or moving into sales. You can't do both forever.
I don't want to be out on these job sites every day for another 10 years. I'm riding a roller coaster where I'm just being a glorified supervisor and operations manager at the same time. And I think that's stunting my side of what I have going on.
I think at scale though, like any business, as a leader, you end up getting to the point where you're not in the field. So the question is, do you wanna get out the field or do you wanna get into sales? 2 very differentâ So like if we scale the install side, would you rather have 4 projects that are massive going on and you're doing $5 million a year with multiple crews and you're not going to be in the field, right? But you're in operations. Or do you actually want to go do sales?
