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Originally Posted by Monomer
I was hoping for a story based on business startup and why your in the business your in....
Glad to hear things are not falling to far back in this economy.
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D'oh! My bad.
Let's see, my great-great-great grandfather started the business in his home kitchen in 1892...
My brother and I were never pressured into the business, in fact we were told to go work elsewhere (or be self-employed) first. But we both ended up here, he on the retail side and me on the wholesale side. I went to school for landscape architecture and hated it, but did some landscape contracting/construction for awhile when my current position opened up and I've been here ever since. It's less hands-on than the contracting work that I enjoyed but thanks to the seasonal nature things change a lot as we move from one season to the next and I still do field trials and consulting with my salespeople. There's a lot of satisfaction in helping people out with their problems, in a golf superintendents case it might mean keeping their job.
I can't take any credit for the startup but there is a lot of pressure to NOT be the generation to drop the ball!