>> When I got out of college, I joined the Navy because --
the only thing really I knew coming out of college was
that I didn't want to sit behind a desk.
And so that was when Admiral Rickover was building up the nuclear submarine force
and the recruiters who came to my school, I talked to them
and they made it sound really interesting.
So I went into the nuclear submarine force.
I interviewed Admiral Rickover and I was an officer on a submarine, a nuclear sub.
And I was the electrical officer for a while and communications.
On a submarine, you learn all of the electrical systems, chemical, nuclear materials.
All kinds of that stuff, water quality.
So coming out I was very, very well trained.
When I got out I went to Johns Hopkins University, worked there for 13 years
at the applied physics laboratory in Maryland.
And while I was there we just bought an old farmhouse to live in, my wife and I.
And I fell in love with construction and remodeling.
And it was in the context of that that I realized
that home inspections is really a good use of the skills that I was already using
at Johns Hopkins - evaluating systems, writing reports about how well they're working or not,
and communicating them to people.
It's the same exact skills in a different application.
And I -- as it turns out, I love being self employed.
I love running my own business.