By the time my older brother turned thirty, he was one of the top HVAC technicians in our state, and he owned an HVAC company.
I wanted to be just like him when I graduated.
I signed up for HVAC classes and hoped that when I graduated, he would hire me. Unfortunately, HVAC repair didn’t come naturally to me. I tried as hard as I could and I studied almost non-stop, but I wasn’t retaining any of the information. I talked to my dad, and he asked why I wanted to be an HVAC technician. I told him i wanted to be just like my brother. Dad shook his head and asked if I wanted to be an HVA technician or if I wanted to be successful. I wanted to be successful. Dad told me to ask myself what I was good at. I was good at computers, programming and web development. He told me to take a class on doing online web development. Two years later, I had my own online web development company. I had four people working for me, and I had a department specifically for HVAC. I got a phone call one afternoon, and it shocked me to hear my brother’s voice. He apologized because he thought he called the wrong number. I asked why he was calling and said he wanted to have a working website for his business. He had called the right number, and I was going to help him. We set him up with an excellent HVAC website, and soon after, he was getting more customers than he had expected. He said he couldn’t have done it without me.