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Atlas sighed, then died.

Publication: Contractor
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
STRANGE HOW THE best advice you've always followed all your life and for good solid practical reasons, such as never playing poker with a man named "Doc" or responding to e-mails promising riches from a former Nigerian government official, all of a sudden goes right out the window. All common sense and apocryphal anecdotal horror stories go by the wayside when it involves deep, close personal friends and friends of friends and loyalties and trusts generated through years together in the trenches fighting the battles we all fight together daily.

I never wanted to go into business for myself. Not in the mechanical and plumbing business at least. I simply enjoy my specialized niches within our industry too much, that of being a senior-level project manager and estimator. It's a job description for which my personality, intelligence and mindset are ideally suited. I never had the ego-driven desire for ownership and total control that being an owner or, in...

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