Schwartz

! I want our trade to become vibrant again. I want new blood to come into it and to be proud of their chosen craft.

There has always been a certain ‘friction’ between new journeymen and the ‘old school’ guys about how things could and should be done.

You simply have to be creative in how you price your jobs and estimate your labor.

Too often these days, it seems we are moving at such a fast pace and in such an insular manner that extending ourselves to help those less fortunate has become a thing of the past.

Teaching, and learning, an entire trade has been slowly replaced by teaching, and learning, only enough of the trade tasks and skills to fulfill a particular job.

The inception of the “digital age” has wrought changes to our world that even the most forward-thinking nerds could not have envisioned.