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Just reading the title of this article gets my blood pumping a little faster. I started out working for my grandfather in his construction company. He had a hard time getting people to do the drywall work, so I taught myself how to tape and eventually went out on my own doing small drywall jobs.
After a few years, I took on a partner and we hired four people and started bidding on drywall projects in developments. It was hard work but I loved it. Eventually, the partnership dissolved but I kept the company and did production work for the next 20 years. As I tired of that type of business, I reduced my number of employees and started doing decorative drywall work, as well as Venetian and clay plaster jobs. I even became a building performance contractor and started air sealing and insulating older homes. When the recession hit in 2008, I became a one-person company for the first time since I went out on my own.