"Robert was destined for a life as a General Contractor!" My Parents said. From about the age of 5, I would take apart the dining room furniture. It was always a risk to pick the right chair at dinner time. Fascinated by engineering and figuring out how things work at 16 I started pumping gas and working on automobiles in a gas station. I rebuilt my first motor at 17, and whether mad skills or dumb luck (probably the latter) it started right up on the first try. At 19, one of my regular customers told her husband to give me a job at Georgia Pacific. (thanks Linda Boone). It was the kick-start I needed into the world of Maintenance and Engineering. I was urged to continue my education, so while working 50+ hours a week, I attended night school in an accelerated learning program that demanded 20+ hours, 5 nights a week so boredom couldn’t set in. In 18 months, I had earned my AAS degree in Electronics and shortly after became the shift working foreman. At 27 I was made the youngest Maintenance Manager in the history of Georgia Pacific; I was also in the 2nd largest producing plant of the 49 plants nationwide (NO PRESSURE). After 17 years of working 6 or 7 days a week, I felt I was missing something. (Life that’s what it was).Construction wasn’t a stretch since my genealogy is nothing but General Contractors and Carpenters, not to mention I had been doing projects all my life with my dad the Carpenter since I was old enough to hold a hammer and be a gopher.
I absolutely fell in love with Construction and Remodeling, not only because of my clients vision I get to bring to reality, but the smile on their faces is the greatest reward of all the moment they see their finished project, the biggest bonus is the new friends I get to make along my journey.
"Robert was destined for a life as a General Contractor!" My Parents said. From about the age of 5, I would take apart the dining room furniture. It was always a risk to pick the right chair at dinner time. Fascinated by engineering and figuring out how things work at 16 I started pumping gas and working on automobiles in a gas station. I rebuilt my first motor at 17, and whether mad skills or dumb luck (probably the latter) it started right up on the first try. At 19, one of my regular customers told her husband to give me a job at Georgia Pacific. (thanks Linda Boone). It was the kick-start I needed into the world of Maintenance and Engineering. I was urged to continue my education, so while working 50+ hours a week, I attended night school in an accelerated learning program that demanded 20+ hours, 5 nights a week so boredom couldn’t set in. In 18 months, I had earned my AAS degree in Electronics and shortly after became the shift working foreman. At 27 I was made the youngest Maintenance Manager in the history of Georgia Pacific; I was also in the 2nd largest producing plant of the 49 plants nationwide (NO PRESSURE). After 17 years of working 6 or 7 days a week, I felt I was missing something. (Life that’s what it was).Construction wasn’t a stretch since my genealogy is nothing but General Contractors and Carpenters, not to mention I had been doing projects all my life with my dad the Carpenter since I was old enough to hold a hammer and be a gopher.
I absolutely fell in love with Construction and Remodeling, not only because of my clients vision I get to bring to reality, but the smile on their faces is the greatest reward of all the moment they see their finished project, the biggest bonus is the new friends I get to make along my journey.
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