I had been working for this HVAC company for so long and I grew very comfortable with the type of work that I did.
- Because of my knowledge working on commercial and residential HVAC systems, most people would come to me to ask different questions.
Usually I was able to come up with a good answer to most complications, but usually I had to see what was going on for myself to make a precise judgment. Eventually, our main boss ended up getting sick and the owner of our HVAC company said he would have to be replaced. He didn’t want to recruit someone from the outside that didn’t have experience or already know how we conducted business, so he said he wanted to promote from within our business. Everybody automatically nominated me for the position and nobody there had any objections. It all happened so fast and I tried to say that I didn’t want to be promoted. One friend I was talking to a little later asked me why I wouldn’t want a promotion when I basically already do the job. He said I might be taking care of a little more paperwork, but everybody always came to me for help anyway, so I might as well get paid for the job that I was already doing. I love how my friend is able to put things in perspective like that, he had a good point. So I accepted the job position and arguably, things have been running better since I started running things. This is because I know precisely what we need to do as a business to get ahead, and what we need to focus on. Taking care of the clients is always our number one goal.