Do You Have a Future in HVAC?

My name is Dennis Bomgart. I'm vice president of Technical Services for Air tight facility. When high school, I went to a vocational school half the day. I was involved in three separate classes. One of them was a carpentry and masonry. Another one was heating air conditioning and refrigeration, and then the third was plumbing and electrical. My plan was actually going to the carpentry part of it, and that's what my father did. But once I got into the heating air conditioning, I found out that I I enjoyed it much, much more. I just fell in love with it and just chose that that was the way I wanted to go. The way I met Greg was, I worked for a company called McKinney's, Greg was an employee there, but he was from the Atlanta branch. And we built out quite a relationship and friendship, and he decided to start his own company, and I went with him. And that's where the beginning of air tight was. When we started, we had no contracts nothing. It was kind of a scary time for me and all we had were two trucks. So our first day we just went around and meeting different people telling them about our company where we wanted to go. And on the second day, we ended up getting our first service call, and it was an exciting time. Working for our service logic gives us so many opportunities. Service logic promotes a lot of education. So it's a great opportunity for us to progress. I get that opportunity to train and teach and to mentor. I received all those things from other people and it's a time to give back. Our industry is constant changing, and we always have to be on that curve of learning and progressing. With the new educational devices that are out there, it opens up many newer avenues to the point where it's more hands on to the point where you can actually see what is taking place. Would are. It gives us that opportunity to actually see what someone else is looking at from an off-site and understand what needs to be done in order to make those changes in the equip in. My retirement, it's coming soon. I've been in the field for forty six years. I look forward to the new journey we're going to get into valve with and we want to do a little bit of farming and and raising of livestock and things like that. Denny Bomgard has been many things to me over the years. He's been a mentor, supervisor, a team teacher and a friend. Training the younger generations of technicians has always been in a very important part of the way that Danny works. Denny. Congratulations on your retirement. And thank you for everything that you have done for us as a company. For us as a group and for me personally. My advice to everyone comes on with two words. Be good. Be good to the company, be good to your fellow technicians, to your customers, be good to your families, to your friends, for new people that are starting out, you understand that it's a long road and it's a good journey. It has so many different great possibilities of where go and what you wanna do. I tell them to keep your eyes open, think about what you like to do and how you wanna get there.