AMA#1 - State of the HVAC School Union

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

Training, Careers, Airconditioning, Self-improvement, Hvac, Business, Education, Refrigeration, Heating, Ac, Apprenticeship

4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In our first ever ask-me-anything (AMA) podcast, we talk about the trade as a whole and answer random questions about Kalos and myself.

Some people ask me if I'd encourage my children to get into HVAC/R. In my opinion, the trade offers plenty of good opportunities and room for growth. So, I will definitely encourage my children to get into the trades, but I will not pressure them into it. I think more of us should encourage our children to consider a career in the trades and understand the benefits of those careers. I'd even say that I'd choose this career path again if I were allowed to restart my life and take a new career path.

I'm optimistic about the future of the trade. The pay and opportunities are better than they've ever been before, and we have chances to attract young people to the trade. This trade is one of impact, and impact is becoming increasingly important to young people.

One of the main issues we need to address in our trade is unprofessionalism. From bad practices to blatant prejudice, we need to be professional, proud of the work we do, and fair to everyone.

We also discuss:

Which piece of equipment I identify with
Sleep schedules for people who work on many things at once
Providing tools and tool stipends
HVAC company finances and profit
Tech traits across trades
The separation between commercial and residential HVAC
Unprofessionalism in the trade
Taking time to read and do research
Time management and discipline
Mechanical diagnosticians vs. sales techs
What inspired me to get into HVAC
Innovation, marketing, and corporate culture among manufacturers
Onboarding and training green techs

Thanks to everyone who asked questions in this AMA.

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0:00.0	and This episode of the HVAC School Podcast is made possible by our sponsors,
0:20.9	Navac and Navac Global.com, refrigeration technologies at Refrigitech.com, carrier and carrier dot com. Fieldpiece, makers of the MR45 recovery machine and the VP-85 vacuum pump and air oasis.
0:37.0	Find out more by going to air oasis.com forward slash go.
0:43.0	He's creepy in a good way
0:49.0	he's creepy in a good way
0:51.0	Brian Orr.
0:52.0	Hey this is the HVAC School Podcast.
0:55.0	I'm Brian.
0:56.0	This is the podcast that helps remind you of some things that you might have forgotten along the way
0:59.5	as well as helps remind you of some things you forgot to know in the first place.
1:03.4	And today we're doing a new thing, something we've never done before.
1:06.3	It's very popular with all the social media types to do a Ask Me Anything or an AMA.
1:11.4	And so I did that in the Facebook group the
1:12.9	HVAC school Facebook group which you can find online if you go to Facebook and
1:16.2	type in HVAC school you'll find the group and the page they're very different the
1:19.9	group most of the posts are from other people on the page. Most of them are still for me.
1:23.0	The page tends to be pretty serious, not too serious, but still pretty serious with the page.
1:27.0	There's a lot of different folks asking different types of questions, but I asked the folks there to ask me anything they wanted to ask, and so I got
1:34.7	asked a lot of different questions. We're currently at 200, and so that's a bit too many to answer in
1:39.7	one podcast, so I'm going to kind of group them together. We'll do a couple of these.
1:42.8	This first episode is going to be more about questions that aren't asked about specific
1:46.1	technical questions, but things that are asked to me generally about me, about me, about
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