-: So about five years ago I went out on my own.
And I did that for a couple of reasons.
One, I wanted to stay in southwest Virginia,
and two, I wanted to start to do the things
that I wanted to do driven by my expectations
and my
determinations of what I was being
successful at and not someone else's,
and I love controlling my own schedule and my own destiny.
It's been a challenge to manage my growth
which I wouldn't have expected.
I was terrified when I jumped out on my own,
but it has been successful
and as we sit here today I'm in a growth spurt
and I've had three interviews this morning already
for bringing new people on.
And that's sort of stopping and running the business,
and stopping, the managing the business
is something I never had to worry about before.
In fact I had been on my own for about a week
and one of my buddies who's an attorney
in Richmond called and asked how things were going.
And I said that they were going great
and he goes is there anything,
there were a few of my buddies that wanted
to make sure I was successful,
which I truly appreciated.
And so it was about seven fifteen
and he was calling to check in.
And he said, is there anything I can do to help?
And without even thinking I said yeah,
can you tell me where copiers come from?
And in a second or two we both started laughing,
but I immediately realized I had always
been at a large law firm.
The copier had always just been down the hall.
The paper was always in the cabinet,
but now that I was on my own,
phones and copiers and all that stuff
was stuff I was figuring out.