Who becomes carpet cleaners?

Just ran accross this old thread, and had fun reading about everybody so I thought I would tell my saga. My history has been primarily in construction. My dad was a general contractor and i was raised swinging a hammer, and thats what i always wanted to be. Then by the time I was 21ish, and i was starting to have back issues, and i watched my Dad at 55 still beating his brains out every day trying to make an honest buck i decided maybe I might have been miss directed. from there i kinda floundered around for a while. I sold cell phones, joined the army guard (oops) became an excavator, moved from Utah to Alaska and got into trucking. Then i went to Iraq on deployment and had alot of time to think, and what I decided is all that time i thought construction was the way to go, what I really wanted was to be the boss. So with some money in my pocket i started looking for opertunities. At first I thought I was going to buy into a sandwich franchise, but then i couldn’t come up with the 300,000 they wanted just to get me rolling (glad I couldn’t get funding now). Then it came to my attention that my brother in law Bayden Neilson was getting ready to sell his HB franchise and move south to montana, and I had an ah ha moment. We worked out a deal, and my wife and I became the new proud owners of the only Alaska Heaven’s Best.

I worked as a V.P. of Marketing in the financial services industry (Prudential Financial, Merrill Lynch, AIG) for 16 years, wanted to spend more time with my family and less in the office (and in traffic on my way to and from the office!). My wife works as a case manager in the legal department of Johnson & Johnson here in NJ.