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The Job Is The Boss 2020 Tour Final Week

Harbor Freight Tools Project in Joliet, Illinois Condor Project in Monee, Illinois

The Job Is The Boss: Week Three Update

Full speed ahead! This week we continued The Job Is The Boss Tour with 9 job site visits over 4 days. It’s awesome to see the progress that has been made, and I’ve enjoyed getting to connect with our teams on the ground. On Tuesday we started in Idaho at Project Bronco and then made our way to Washington so that we could get an early start on Wednesday at our MHW projects in Quincy. We then headed to Olympia to visit the NP Hawks Prairie project.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

The writer, James Clear, and I both had traumatic and life-changing experiences in our formative years. And, for both of us, these experiences changed us into who we are today. Clear’s life-changing injury occurred when a baseball bat hit him in the face on the last day of sophomore year in high school. It easily could’ve killed him and definitely could’ve held him back from the amazing success he’s had since. When I was 14, I was in a shooting accident. I was in the hospital for months and had over 15 procedures and surgeries. In addition to losing my right eye, I basically lost an entire year of my life and, by the time I was 15 years old, I considered myself a grown-up. I learned many things I was glad to know, and many things I didn’t want to know, but nonetheless, all those things influenced my later successes.

The Job Is The Boss: Week Two Update

EDGE West in Creve Coeur Wow, Week 2 managed to keep up with the pace of week 1 with 10 more job sites in three days! We started out the week visiting Project Belmont in Indiana, Project Cougar in Michigan and then Etna Park 70 East in Ohio. On Wednesday we headed south to Kentucky to see the project for Nicklies in Louisville before heading over to Kansas City, Missouri to visit Horizon XI in Riverside and then Project Smile in St. Peters, Missouri. We finished out the week close to home in St. Louis with visits to the EDGE West in Creve Coeur, Centene’s Urban Campus in Clayton, One Hundred Above the Park St. Louis City and Delmar Divine in University City.

The Job Is The Boss: Rounding Out Week One

What a whirlwind! The Job is The Boss 2020 Tour got off to a great start this week with visits to 10 different amazing job sites. It is so invigorating to finally get to meet with my teams in person instead of these ZOOM calls. Nothing replaces face to face.

Unvarnished by Eric Alperin and Deborah Stoll

This book is an interesting behind-the-scenes look at bartending, but also gives great recipes and methodologies to please even the most sophisticated drinkers. I’ve often fantasized or thought that if I wasn’t one of North America’s largest builders, I would’ve been a bartender. Anthony Bourdain sidetracked me for a short bit, thinking I might become a famous chef, but I was too loose with a knife and figured I would cut my fingers off eventually.

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I have always had an insatiable curiosity

What causes me to get out of bed every morning is driven by inspiration. Ever since I was a little boy, I was inspired by my insatiable curiosity, which caused me to be a reader, a thinker, and a dreamer.

I can remember being inspired by seeing Bobby Kennedy on TV and watching videotapes of Martin Luther King Jr., and being deeply saddened by their assassination even though I was only 10 years old when I experienced all of this.

As a little boy, rocket flight was a big thing. I remember being fascinated by the moon and the stars and the astronauts exploring them.As humans we are achieving remarkable things that only a handful of years before were just in the imagination.