Owning a Job vs. Building a Business: Is the American Dream Waiting in the Trades?

Owning a Job vs. Building a Business: Is the American Dream Waiting in the Trades?

What if the best path to financial independence doesn’t require a four-year degree—or spending your entire life working inside the business you created? Joe Giacalone, founder of a National Painting Company and author of Beyond the Owner: How to Build a Trades Business That Runs Without You, joins John Rush on Rush To Reason to talk about the enormous opportunities waiting in the skilled trades.

They explore why blue-collar careers were stigmatized for decades, how the push toward college may have caused a serious shortage of skilled workers, and why today’s plumbers, electricians, painters, mechanics, and other tradespeople may have opportunities previous generations never imagined.

But learning a trade is only the beginning. Giacalone explains how young entrepreneurs can move from simply owning their job to building a business that can operate without them,  making money even when you’re not there.