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Originally Posted by MindBomber
Become a carpenter, work for a contractor and learn everything he's willing to teach you, begin considering starting your own company.
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Went the complete opposite direction. Quit my job and started a business. I started in painting, with a lower cost of entry and previous experience. Branched from there and slowly started taking on bigger and different types of job. Someone asked, can you do a kitchen? Sure! Hey, this bathroom needs to go. Ok!
I'm undecided if this was the best route, but it was one available. Now, I do alright. In house, I can do anything inside up until adding to the living space.
To go to the GC level, you need to have a group of people that are reliable and work for you. You need a drywall guy, and an electrician and every other company that you can put your name on their work. That's the hard part, because you need to chew through the morons to find them, and occasionally, that means hiring them.
Right now, I can take on a project, and do demo through my company, call my drywaller and electrician, and have them do their thing and trust that my specs are going to be followed and not show up again until finishing.
Not too shabby in 3 years.