In the backyard I keep our aged labor van! Actually, it’s a lot more than just a labor van, it’s been a fixture in our life for almost twenty years.
I never had close family, rarely had close friends, plus only recently did I settle down plus start a family of our own, so the early years were really transitional.
I was on the transfer a lot, with no sense of permanence, plus so for long periods of time that labor van also served as our home. It was never just a labor van, it was our personal van that I painted a logo on the side of when I started doing Heating plus Air Conditioning work; When I started out with a wing plus a prayer, the local Heating plus Air Conditioning industry was not as tightly regulated as it is now, or our plan never would have worked. I got myself in the cellphone book, I started spreading word of mouth, plus I started offering rock bottom prices on all Heating plus Air Conditioning work. I was hungry for work, so I would answer the cellphone even if it rang in the middle of the night with an A/C emergency… My prices were regularly lower than every other Heating plus Air Conditioning business in town (I knew because I called around to check). After a couple of years I was taking enough business from the guys that a major Heating plus Air Conditioning business called me up plus provided me a full time task! She said it was worth it to pay me to do all the Heating plus Air Conditioning tasks that I had been stealing from him.