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Will Ries
Operations Manager and lead foreman at Just Add Water (Iowa Waterscapes), a Des Moines-area pond and water feature design-build company.
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Sep 23, 2026
Episode 13: One Lecture Changed His Career Path
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74:38speaker_1HOST
Oh, yeah.
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74:38Will RiesGUEST
Right? So like if you can find a hole or a spot where you think this is cool and run with it, then run full force into it, right? Like, it's...
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74:49Will RiesGUEST
Yeah, I left, I got my internship and never left, and within like my second summer I'm on salary and in the basement when we were that small, and learning the, the numbers behind things and like that because that was just where the need was in the company, right? Like, I don't have to go plow snow because I'm gonna go help with the books.
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75:14Will RiesGUEST
I wanna learn how to do maintenance, and I just put myself in that position to go and then I just never looked back, right? So now I'm running all of production for Just Add Water versus I could easily still just be like, "Oh, I get paid well.
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75:30Will RiesGUEST
I'm gonna skate by and move rocks and build cool stuff." And you know what? The world absolutely needs those people.
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76:03speaker_0HOST
Foreman or-
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76:04Will RiesGUEST
So we start at $18 an hour, which is probably not enough anymore, right? Like, we'll have to go back to the drawing board on that.