Learn from the top 5% with Bob Sweet

Danielle Thomas

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I'm the founder and, owner, and the president is of streamlined services. We are out of Raleigh. I'm a fourth-generation plumber. I grew up around the business. I always say that you. My dad was enslaved then. He did not want anything to do with it. He did not want us to be a part of the trade. I fell in love with it. I was pretty good in the field. He wanted to own my own business. Always had that entrepreneurial spirit. And this has allowed me to do that. And I love it. I love what I do every single day. Corey Berrier01:42 You bring up an exciting point. I think that and I'm sure you'll agree with this when I was growing up, My parents didn't say, Hey, here's an option to go into the trades. It was, you're going to college. And here's what I think, and this is just my this is just what I've learned, that there are so many people that are not coming into the trades at this PO point. And I think a lot of that has to do with that program programming if you will. But. When you were coming up, as you just mentioned, your dad was in the trades and suggested you not get into it. I can't imagine. Just like people that are not in the trades, like my family was not, they weren't in the trades, so naturally, they said, You've gotta go to college. That wasn't the route for me. I tried that route, did not work for me. What do you think are the benefits of someone, say, graduating high school right now? Maybe they don't. Exactly what they wanna do. Haven't been that great in school. They have, they thought they were gonna go to college but didn't really, but they, it's undecided. What are the benefits, in your opinion, of people you know of folks looking at coming into the trades as opposed to going to Bob Sweet02:49 college? There are just so many young people out there and so many people that th

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