Things you want to anticipate.

If people enjoyed that in the military and there's few you do,

but there's so many similarities that I think between the military and construction

that it is a great career field for people in the military to want to get into.

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Construction, Ian Schwant. Today, I'm joined by Carpentry student, John Moore. You can find the

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there too. John, thanks for joining me today. Yeah, thanks, Ian. Great to be here. Longtime listener.

Yeah, you and I had a somewhat chance meeting when I talked at your estimating class and tried

to act like I knew something about that topic in front of students.

So I hope you came away feeling like I knew a little bit about what I was talking about.

No, that was a great class.

And I think last year, around that time, you went on a podcast and you talked about how you just previously spoke at that exact class. So I was, that was one of many nudges to get me into the program, you being there the year prior. So it was good to be sitting in that class. I just recently purchased

nail your numbers. So I'm digging into that since you recommended it. That's a great book.

It's a heady, heady book, especially for somebody early on in their estimating work.

I haven't dug too deep into it, but I'll have to do some Google searches and kind of

digging on what things actually mean in there until I get more experience under my belt for

sure.

Yeah.

So you alluded to it in your response to that.

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