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WOOO congrats on your first sponsorship!

Made my day seeing this Ames reading episode drop! Such a great story 🤝

Truth is they treat you like azz old heads want u breaking ur back and most of the time u get let go when the jobs done bc its cheap labor especially the apprentice and its sad seeing a old guy doing the same thing u do for the same price the new guys got

How can a person like me with less than a year experience in construction industry but with CMPT degree get started in canada?

Lol im in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 you’ve nailed it mate, there’s still a lot of hillbilly attitudes here mate. Sometimes I think im working in one the 3rd world countries but later on I’ll be saying fuck this is Canada

You’re doing a good thing man. Thanks for sharing your experience. Invaluable.

I was just telling someone else this. Just my enrollment in a CM degree program has opened the door to internships that would otherwise be closed to me. However my non existent Microsoft excel experience might place me lower on totem pole of prospects. It was a question from all internship interviews. Something I’m not used to being a journeyman laborer lol

This concept applies to all fields. Experience combined with structured knowledge is everything.

Great episode! Super cool to hear how you have built and continue to build and popularize social media in the heavy equipment world!

Redwing boots 🥾 are way better than Ariat mate

16:56 Rusk Industries 18:38 Take Any Industry

Great conversation! You guys touched on a lot of good topics. Love tuning in to this channel. Keep givin ‘er

Maybe they should pay you all more

I’m 22 with a GC license about to get into college for my CM degree

Great pod as always! Would be interested in a SDI or Bond pod. Or other insurance products in the construction biz

Girl Dads Rule!

Scott is the man

I got a cm internship going into my senior year of hs so I’m very excited about that

My cousin got hired without experience. This statement true then is now false. Work history doesn’t even doesn’t even apply rn. Just get a degree and get the PMP.

I’m glad Jay is talking about simulators. I get a lot of flack for wanting to go to school to get some machine time. There just much opportunity or down time to get some the old fashioned way. One school I’m looking at mentions using a simulator as well as hands on time. I think him investing in this type of training is enough to say it has value, it just hasn’t taken ahold in people’s minds yet. CM degree and operator training. Your boy has been in the trench too long. Great channel brother. You’re knowledgeable and have an ease about you that keeps a good pace to have your conversations flowing naturally. Appreciate the content.

As far as new and inexperienced labor is concerned, a company needs to have a good training and safety program put in place for all new hires. It should be at least two weeks before they get out in the field. With no experience in construction. Everybody should at least complete their OSHA 10. And more work related online learning. For natural gas, we had veriforce OQ’s. All Green workers were taken at the yard shown USA markings how to identify utility markings. Also given mock situations they would see in the field. Four proposed excavations.Teams of two would break, pothole, daylight the utility, backfill and compact. Before they ever dig around a live gas line. So one week inside a “class room” and one week practicing everything they were just taught. That was at Northern Pipeline Construction. They have one of the best training and safety programs. And where I’m from that’s where a lot of guys got their start in Gas Edit: They for sure, try to generate that skilled workforce. Like you mentioned. Also a lot of guys leave to go make more money somewhere else. From what I’ve seen it’s more worth it to train new people than it is to compete with Union wages. NPL has no shortage of work and from what I hear, foreman, Supers and on up are very well taken care of.

Been in the trades for many years. Moved around between trades more than I’d have liked to if I could do it over. But a degree in CM coupled with experience I hope pay off for me.

Been in construction my whole life. Pipeline construction the last 4 years. Got accepted to a university last week. Start my CM classes tonight. Too stoked.

Thanks for the opportunity to join the conversation and be featured on the show!

Infrastructure jobs aren’t being designed fast enough which is effecting everything, luckily we are busy for the next two years but it would be nice to see the bidding backlog jammed full at all times

Great reading thank you.

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great podcast!!!!!!!

Graduated in CM. Best idea ever. 0 debt, multiple offers, 6-figures out of school. You just have to be okay with people thinking you’re a brick layer and looking down on you because they don’t understand what you’re doing

We have to understand that a younger work force formed by history.... The history that we choose to use to form the future must be strong enough to hold what' the future is trying to place.

Working with an old backhoe operator while i was his shovel hand/swamper, i told him i would get the rest he could go on. He stopped and told me, i can work that machine 8hrs and it will never sweat, get tired, need to rest or its back will never hurt. If he couldnt get it with the hoe then its my job to do. I always remembered that and if you see an operator that will not do that little extra and just pass it off to a shoveler, he wasnt on the ground to know how difficult it is and will never be as good of an operator as he could have been. I labored became a 20yr pipeline hoehand/ operator and now own my own dirt and construction business. Definitely good advice he gave out here!

I have been a Restoration Technician for the past 3 years in South Florida with several IICRC Certifications (WTR/FSRT/AMRT/TCST) as well as Xactimate training and experience (which is the standard estimating tool we use in our industry) and I just think it’s time to get into CM. My current employer is also a GC so I have some experience managing subcontractors in both residential and commercial jobs. I just don’t know if my experience would be enough to get an Assistant Project Manager position at some decent Construction company. I also did 3 years of school, I went for international business but I had to stop school completely at the time and I had to get a full time job. I want to go back and finish my bachelor’s degree, fit it somehow in my schedule. Either finish my degree in finance and start a whole new career or finish it in CM which aligns more with the experience I already have. I’m 24 and planing to propose/start a family soon. So I just want to have a solid career with a good income potential in the long run. I’m also bilingual English and Spanish. Any recommendations are welcome and appreciated!! 👍🏼🤝

As a traveling superintendent for 18 years with only on the job training, I can promise you this! No amount of college is gonna substitute working in the field. Sure, a degree will get you a job! But your real education doesn't start until you lace those boots up.

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Michals is so smart they hire out side hydro vacs cause they don't want to pay for maintenance.

Alamo group owns them on buddy and most of your companies!!

I lived in Lahaina for 12 years in the 90s. Wish I was there to help. I might be back soon though.

Utahan here and I promise we know that kennecott exists!!

Yeah…..I was wondering when those poles went down. Past Shaw right? They were summersaults, upside down. I think it happened early in the day. I have some incredible video too

I worked with Jim at Wayne brothers for 4 years. He was a great guy to work with! I took inspiration from him when growing Dimmer’s Precision Grading. Great to see a familiar face. Awesome podcast, keep up the hard work!

Thats so crazy, we just had SCV19 here at EKPC.

Use to work there for 4 years, crazy operation to be part of

The US and Canada are so short term profit driven that nobody bothers to actually do a good job refining a process. Companies also hire a bunch of foreigners with no ties to the soil here because they're just yesmen who'll do as told. Companies grow but nothing improves

Goats 🐐

THATS MY PROFESSOR!!!💪

Shit there video said ep.227, so not 227 228

If you go to Ohio the big Muskie bucket is on display.

Heard Landon was on a podcast and had to swing by

Very impressive young lady!

Thanks for featuring us on this important topic of conversation! Underground utilities are everywhere. We can help you find them.