-: First of all, you have to be passionate.
You have to be passionate,
you have to be willing to accept failure,
you have to be willing to take a risk,
you have to be willing to be detailed, organized,
do your homework, and not be afraid to take a chance.
If you don't, you know,
if you don't have those qualities, it's hard to do.
But my best advice is work for something,
and learn the business that you might
choose to love and go into.
I grew up in this business.
We look at people that,
I don't want people to jump around,
because I'd like to find people
that want to grow with our company.
And because you invest a lot of time and money in them,
and we want them to become part of our team.
You know, we always refer to our employees as our team,
because they really are.
Our business, again, a service.
So the key to our success
is the very people that work for us,
that go out and are the productive people in our company,
and are the voice of our company.
And they demonstrate what we can do,
so that's what I look at.
I don't always look at whether the schooling's done
or things like that.
In an interview, you may be looking
at it on a piece of paper
and something shines throughout an interview
that's totally different, that you didn't expect.
So we kinda look at a combination of different things.
Team work is huge.
If you're gonna succeed in the business world
or you're gonna succeed in any company,
you know, a Google company or whatever, something like that,
it's about team players.
You have to learn to get together,
and you'd be amazed at what you'll learn
from the other people in the group.
And to not be intimidated when you get into the workforce
to think of that person's gonna take you job.
And I think that's the best advice I can give to students
is working on those team projects is huge
because it's teaching you
in a way that you can't learn that
for when you do go into the workforce.
You will work on a team,
and for my employees in the field,
those apprentices have to learn from those electricians.
And I always tell the electricians
if they complain about one of the apprentices,
he's not doing this, he's not doing that,
then teach him.
Because how you teach him is gonna be the way
that person will teach the next generation or apprentices.