-: Generally environmental consultants
and it's not just geologists, usually scientists
usually high quality people.
I like to recruit, I call them characters with character.
So, I like to have fun every day but it can be-
The job can be very challenging, I mean,
we really enjoy helping people who are responsible,
and want to follow the regulations and clean something up
and we also really get excited
over brown field redevelopment,
helping municipality with an old factory
that's been closed down for ten or fifteen years
and someone has enough, you know, insight
to say, hey this would make a great apartment complex.
So we really enjoy restoring old properties,
especially if they can keep some of the architectural charm,
and we can clean up the environment
and make it safe for people to move back in.
That's kind of our company really focuses on
brown field redevelopment, it's a lot of fun.
Well, I'll back up a little bit.
The biggest challenge as an entry level geologist is
the data collection.
You have to be mentally and physically tough.
We're usually outside, behind a drill rig or a probe.
Or you might be in boat getting sediment samples.
You might be in a factory at two in the morning.
You have to stay mentally and physically sharp
to collect data, because it's garbage in garbage out.
Now it might be snowing and ten degrees out,
but you still have to take good notes,
collect the right samples, describe the soil.
The biggest challenge for being a small business owner
is not only securing the work,
but invoicing properly, the cash flow
and just the responsibility of knowing you have
people relying on you to provide them payroll
so they can pay their mortgages and car payments
and student loans and what not.
Really I was, if I could go back, in a nutshell,
I would recommend everyone to take some,
at least elementary business classes,
because I had no training whatsoever but,
if you don't get those invoices out,
if you can't recover your cash
then you're not going to be in business very long.