Alright, Levi thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Over the course of your career, have you seen or experienced your industry completely flip-flop or change course on something?

The 2020 covid lock downs really changed the welding millwright and fabrication industry for a little while. Before covid my day job was keeping us at 50 hours a week and my side business was doing about 12k in sales per year but once the lock downs took effect my full time millwright and welding job stsrted ramping up our hours as more and more factories were shut down they stsrted scheduling more matience projects and at the same time with alot of people stuck home they started ordering more and more of my custom metal work for there homes. That year my day job worked us. Consistently 70+ hours a week and my side business cleared 20k

Levi, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I started out welding 15 years ago for other people through various day jobs and then 5 years ago i created my own side business mac welding and fabrication to help fill the gaps left my other manufacturers i provide custom architectural elements to clients who are fed up with cheap products from the big box store but maybe don’t want to order completely custom from a larger manufacturer. I mainly provide fire pits and planter boxes and metal stainless steel cable railing but i can build anything that you can describe

What’s worked well for you in terms of a source for new clients?

Networking with other professional home builders alot of times the client having a custom home built knows they want a fire pit that’s better than they could get at a box store but they don’t know where to order one thats where i step in and can work directly with the building company or thw homeowner to deliver something spectacular

Any advice for managing a team?

As the owner my business is mainly just myself but on larger projects when i do need help ive found the best way to keep morale high and keep yoir workers happy is number one i make sure im the first guy on the jobsite and the last guy to leave number two i typically provide breakfast if its an early start day or maybe even lunch or dinner if the job runs long i also make sure its worth my guys time to be rhere and i always budget for everyone to be paid fair wage

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