Introduction and Early Life Experiences

how did those athletic Pursuits uh translate to where your um successful business ventures where was the crossover or like how did you all of a sudden get these motives to obviously your successful now it didn't just happen at one point what was the path to get you to where you are now like what have your career opportunities been how many how many jobs did you do before you got to where it finally clicked yeah so you know I said I I came from California so I um one of the things my dad you know kind of harped on me was he was in the construction trades so he was a builder and um I worked for him you know in constructions I think I was probably 12 years old swinging a hammer you know he kept telling me I got to I need to go to college I need to go to college to be successful and I think you know that generation and even now um one of the M big mistakes we make is we're teaching kids Young kids that you have to go to college to be successful which you don't you absolutely do not and um you my father kept beating in my head you got to go to college so I I went off went to college um Cal Poly Pomona graduated with a degree in urban Regional planning and at that point in time the the economy was extremely bad I couldn't get a job in urban Regional planning at all and um it was 1993 and my wife um got pregnant and so we had our first child and we I mean I we didn't have $10 to our name and so out of college um I eventually how I ended up in Idaho was I was searching for jobs and I had friends that were in law enforcement and I was just like I just got to get a job and so I I applied all over California couldn't get a job because of affirmative action that'll date me too but if you look that up you'll understand what that's about a little bit and um I couldn't get a job job so a friend of mine I grew up with was in Idaho lived in Idaho he said come up here try to get a job and I drove to Idaho um got a job with the ad County Sheriff's department and so I started working the sheriff's department I when I I was offered a job I was in Idaho drove back to California rented to U-Haul so it's a 15 hour drive it drove 15 hours up drove 15 hours back picked up my wife and said we're going to Idaho right now I packed up the trailer didn't sleep BR 15 hours back to Idaho and that's how we ended up in Idaho and started working for ad County Sheriff's department and um you know that eventually you know LED um you know um I worked for ad County service department worked for…