Something shifted this past year. · Free Garage Door Community

Something shifted this past year.

I've worked for 6 different door companies. Each one taught me something. But the company I'm at now in Minnesota hit different.

In the last year I've gone from riding along as a new hire to running my own service truck to being foreman on commercial jobs. And the work itself — it's unlike anything I'd done before.

An ever-changing combination of residential sectionals. Commercial sectionals. Coiling doors. Counter shutters in high schools. Industrial 4-fold doors. Entry doors in people's homes. Every week something different. Every week something I get to hone my skills in even more.

That variety forces you to actually understand doors — not just the steps, but the logic behind them. Why the spring system works the way it does. Why the back hang matters. Why the engineering behind different doors works. Why two doors that look the same can behave completely differently.

After 5 years in this trade I finally feel like I actually know what I'm doing. Not because I got better at following instructions — because I've been thrown at enough different problems that I had to figure it out.

That's what I'm trying to give you in this community. Not just the steps. The logic. The reps. The long game.

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Something shifted this past year.