It was the fall of 1985. I was in my last semester at the University of Florida, just a few short weeks before finally finishing my degree in Building Construction, when one of my professors uttered these words:
“When you tell people you are a contractor, most of them will immediately assume that you are dishonest and can’t be trusted.”
This professor, a well-respected instructor in our program, was himself a retired contractor. But he was making a point about character that each of his students needed to hear: the construction industry had an image problem…