You Don’t Need to Leave Your Hometown to Build Something Big | EP#73

I absolutely love that.

I myself started accidentally.

So I grew up in Frederictown, Ohio.

And then after college, yeah, that's

right.

And then after college, I was like, well, I'm picking where I live.

So I moved to Florida down in St. Pete and I ended up just randomly getting a job at a sign company who happened to be putting up the exterior signs for CVS pharmacy.

And it was back in the heyday where CVS is, we're going on every single corner.

So they had their preferred developers and I could clearly see this group is getting way more of the projects.

They have a whole team, like they understand what's going on.

So I was like, hey, what's it take to be a developer? Because even before that, I honestly never even thought how our communities were formed.

But it was going, wait, this developer is doing a CVS, but they also built the shopping center and they also had a piece in the residential.

And I'm like, holy cow.

And then I just, I asked the developer one day in the field and I'm like, Hey Eric, what's it take to be a developer thinking you tell me to go to school, do this or that? And he's like, well, we're a smaller company.

We've got 20 to 30 people.

If you're the right person, we'll teach you the business.

I was like, great.

When do I start? And because I had worked with them as the sign person and doing all the permits and stuff for a year, they were like, okay.

So within three weeks I joined them.

And same way, like you said, you get to see so many, and we had CVS, we had a family dollar, we had Chase Bank, we had public.

So we had the national tenants and you got to see how they all worked and operated.

I'm like, wait, I'm getting paid.

I'm getting a free education, a paid education into all of this.

And I'm understanding.

I'm