It was kind of fun when I first started laboring with my Mom.
He owned the local HVAC company plus he would take me to work whenever I wasn’t in school.
It seemed natural to go to homes with some HVAC techs plus help them repair a furnace or air conditioner unit, or to help them do the servicing. I was only sixteen when he allowed me to work with them. I didn’t know of myself as an apprentice. I was only thinking that I was getting paid to have fun. I couldn’t know it when some of his customers started calling me the teenage HVAC company, but little did I guess that while I was having fun, I was also studying a trade. Although I was too young to do little more than carry the tools plus hand the men some things, they were constantly showing me what they were doing. I had l earned about the odd tools. I knew which parts were for the furnace plus which were for air conditioner. I also knew how to run the machinery to disinfect the HVAC duct. When a single of the men didn’t show up for work a single morning, I was asked to help install a ductless HVAC system. Another time, I got to help with the upgrade of a radiant heat system. I had constantly told Mom that I didn’t want to be in the family business. By the time I graduated from school,, all I had to do was take the HVAC certification test… I had found my job long before most men my age knew what the word meant.