14 Week Contractor Course?
I've never met a GC that attended a course of any kind. I do a lot of work for General Contractors, 20% go out of business before I come back to trim out and 50% go out of business before I've known them a year.
I've met a lot of people that wanted to be managers and administrators and didn't feel the need to know how to actually build *anything*.
I hate to be the lone dissenting voice, but you will be competing with people who actually know how to build a house and have done it with their bare hands. "Running" your parent's business isn't good enough. You need to know construction. You need to have been there and done that.
I've had female "project managers" send me out to do rough wiring on houses that haven't even been framed yet. I'm a speciality contractor but am in a very good position to know what it takes to be a good GC as I've dealt with litterally hundreds:
1. Experiance in the trades. Really, no kidding. Sweat, blood, the works.
2. Good business skills. Read the E-myth contractor and Markup to Profit.
3. Credibility.
You have no experience and no credibility. Your Daddy worked hard to build a business that you step into and if you say you're a good businesswoman, I'll take you at your word.
Now, the good news, nobody started out with experience or credibility, that's earned, and not at the local community college, you have to get dirty andpay your dues. The fact that you're here and sincere and are eager to apply yourself is good. But not good enough.
Strap on a set of tools and learn it from the trenches up, it's the only way.
Peace......Richard
I've never met a GC that attended a course of any kind. I do a lot of work for General Contractors, 20% go out of business before I come back to trim out and 50% go out of business before I've known them a year.
I've met a lot of people that wanted to be managers and administrators and didn't feel the need to know how to actually build *anything*.
I hate to be the lone dissenting voice, but you will be competing with people who actually know how to build a house and have done it with their bare hands. "Running" your parent's business isn't good enough. You need to know construction. You need to have been there and done that.
I've had female "project managers" send me out to do rough wiring on houses that haven't even been framed yet. I'm a speciality contractor but am in a very good position to know what it takes to be a good GC as I've dealt with litterally hundreds:
1. Experiance in the trades. Really, no kidding. Sweat, blood, the works.
2. Good business skills. Read the E-myth contractor and Markup to Profit.
3. Credibility.
You have no experience and no credibility. Your Daddy worked hard to build a business that you step into and if you say you're a good businesswoman, I'll take you at your word.
Now, the good news, nobody started out with experience or credibility, that's earned, and not at the local community college, you have to get dirty andpay your dues. The fact that you're here and sincere and are eager to apply yourself is good. But not good enough.
Strap on a set of tools and learn it from the trenches up, it's the only way.
Peace......Richard
