It’s a legitimate question that every participant in the
HVACR trade should ask themselves and eventually answer. Take entry-level
technicians for example. Do they want to be installers for the rest of their
lives or would they rather get into service and repair? Maybe management is
their final destination, or possibly they are aiming to be business owners
running their own shop. With HVACR, the sky’s the limit, but it is important to
set some initial goals.
Once those initial goals are reached, it is necessary to
define new goals. If ownership was the goal, now that you are an owner you have
to decide how far in this endeavor you would like to go. What volume of
business and management responsibilities are you reaching for? If you are happy being a one-man shop, then
instead of focusing on growing your business, it might just be time to
concentrate on improving your skills and certifications. Maybe you are interested
in being a 10-man shop or perhaps a franchise. The more I work in the industry,
the more I am convinced that it doesn’t really matter how large your company
is, there is room for you in the diverse HVACR market. Cue the bigger is better
and much more reliable argument in the background. Of course there are some
crooked one-man shops with terrible business practices giving other HVACR
contractors bad names, but there are crooked multi-million dollar shops operating
under the same crooked practices as well. Bigger is not always better.
There are tradeoffs to every level of being an HVACR
contractor, so you have to ask yourself, “Just how much success can you
handle?”
How Much Success Can You Handle?
Angela Harris is the Technology Editor. She can be contacted at 248-786-1254 or angelaharris@achrnews.com. Angela is responsible for What’s New and Technology articles for The NEWS. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in English from Oakland University and has nine years of professional journalism experience.
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