What would you tell any new associate coming into the space? Any advice, anything to insist on when you're looking at becoming an associate?

Yeah, I think there's a lot of things that you can kind of keep in mind.

And sometimes it's just as simple as when you go to that place of business, how is the practice owner acting? Does he seem overly concerned with the amount of money that's being spent on day-to-day operations? Do you feel like they're cost-cutting very, very aggressively? Do the employees feel valued? Does your assistant feel like she's being paid a fair wage? These are things that I think...

In retrospect, I had all these red flags.

You know, the practice owner was complaining about the schedule not being busy enough.

He was constantly complaining about how much he was having to pay the back office staff.

And, you know, for me, I was like, oh, you know, this is just someone who's, you know, constantly they want the best out of their business.

So what would you say in terms of that?