I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I left high school and I definitely didn’t think that I was going to end up working as a contractor.
I wanted to work with my hands, and I ended up at a technical school. At first I was learning the trade of welding, but I did not find it to be very interesting. I decided to switch in the middle of a semester and I went to a program that taught plumbing and heating and air conditioning work. I learned a lot of information in a very short amount of time. When I was finished with all of my classes, I easily passed the test. I had a hard time getting a job, because no one wanted to hire a person fresh out of school with absolutely zero experience in the heating and AC repair industry. It took too much to find a job and then I had to work in the retail office before they would give me a shot working on repairs or installation jobs. The commercial heating and AC repair business was very well known in the community. I finally got my chance to work as a full-service heating and AC repair technician and last month I started working alone. I didn’t have any problems at all the first week, but the second week I was at a commercial repair and I was trying to figure out what was wrong with the boiler. I was having a lot of issues and the customer was getting upset that I couldn’t fix the problem. I had to call someone else to come down and help me figure things out.