I do love it. It’s a lot of work to build an organization. Crains does an annual ranking of the top fastest business companies – we were number 3 and this past year we were number 24.
We might have been one of a couple of minority owned businesses–there definitely weren’t many out of the top 50. Point being, there’s not a lot of peers in this pool. Not a lot of people that you can collaborate with, so it can get lonely from time to time.
I would not be in this thing if I didn’t love it. I breathe it; I sleep it; I eat it every single day. I do, however, debrief and balance, but ultimately, I love providing jobs and opportunities to others. It brings me a ton of gratification to have somebody join the team and to see he/she grow and move through different lines of business and grow internally within our organization.
