Veterans Have the Right Stuff

On this Veteran’s Day I would like to suggest a way that the HVACR Industry can help those who served their country: offer them jobs. Veterans have many characteristics that make them ideal employees.

Veterans are disciplined.
Veterans have developed both self discipline and group discipline – both crucial skills for employment.

Veterans know how to work hard.
Remember, they made it through boot camp and survived years of living conditions most of us would find intolerable, all the while performing their job.

Veterans know how to be a team player.
The armed forces cannot function if everyone is freelancing. Installation is so much easier if you have a good team. Far more efficient than working alone.

Veterans can master technically difficult machinery.
Take a look at the equipment today’s armed forces work with. Much of it is incredibly complex. A veteran is someone who has been in a position where their life depended upon knowing how to operate that machinery.

Today, finding people who are good candidates for employment in the trades can be tough. Veterans already have the traits employers look for in a good employee, and that is a good base to build on. If the industry will reach out to veterans we will also help ourselves.

Here are links for people considering hiring a veteran or for veterans looking for help getting started in HVACR.

Troops to Trades 
Nexstar Legacy

Thank You!

We have just completed a major national election. Regardless of whether your candidates won, you won. We often take for granted the right to choose our leaders, but this is far from a universal freedom. Recent events in the middle east show us how fortunate we are to be able to hold elections to select our leaders, and how blessed we are that the government by the people, for the people, and of the people continues to function smoothly right through a major election. The loser is not jailed as a dissident, nor do they take to the streets with AK-47s. The biggest election winners were we the people.

Our country and our freedom to choose our own leaders in a democratic process are protected by the men and women that serve in the armed forces. During the last decade, we have asked these men and women to sacrifice a lot for their country and they have delivered. Putting their lives on hold and risking everything to serve their country. Perhaps no single event highlights how important their service is than an election. 

To all who have served in the armed forces – thank you!