From Apprentice to Partner: A Journey of Growth

Me and this guy, you got to think we worked together. He was my journeyman for a lot of years. He taught me everything. And we spent, you know, eight hours a day, five days a week for, you know, 52 weeks a year, times four years. So you can imagine we had spent a lot of time together working in capacity. And our boss had worked very hard at the time. He was the guy we were going to partner from and buy our company from. He worked very hard to make sure we had all the skills and the tools to learn how to take over the business. So he put a lot of prep in to make sure that we knew, you know, how do you actually run the jobs? What is the complications? You know, as an electrician, like, I wire houses, very easy, right? But when it comes to running the business, it's, how do you quote jobs? How are you building relationships? How are you getting those contractors in? And so he had started to groom us to understand what we were going to be taking on, how we were going to be in that capacity, the leadership skills he needed, running teams. And remember, I'm 22, 23, 24, as I'm learning a lot of this.