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Yeah. Um, I started out in the I guess it's 1997. Um, I got a job in recruiting at a recruiting company. Um, a Zai was going through college, right and kind of help pay for college, and then I just stuck with it. Um, so for the first, like, 45 years I worked in kind of a shark tank environment. You know, it was you kind of eat what you kill. And, um, and then eventually, I moved on to a much bigger company and work my way up into a branch manager position, and then an area manager position, and then one of my clients, the company that I worked for, uh, it's something that I thought was just awful. One of my clients, Um, any illegal, actually. So I thought, you know, I can do better than this. Um, So I went out on my own, and that was 2006. Um, and so, yeah, I started my own company. Um, that was, you know, that'll take 10 years off your life, especially in the start up phase. Right? Um, so we worked really hard and kind of made that happen. I had a partner that I ended up not being able to get along with long term. So I sold that company in 2012 and started again, Um, the company that I currently run eso I've been in recruiting the whole time. Um, and now, you know, actually, probably, uh, you know, do less work than I've ever done before. Just because at this point, I'm just sort of, you know, in charge of a lot of other people doing things, but, um, yeah, so that's kind of how I got to where I am right now.
So, um, I have right now I have offices in India. Andi, I do travel over there a couple of times a year, and then the rest of the time now in the US, all of our employees in the U. S. Air now working remotely from home. So the rest of them I spend working from home. And like I said, I worked less than I used to. It probably just do 40 hours a week. You know, um, you know, once you kind of get into ah CEO role, you're now just sort of a systems manager. You know? Um, so rather than doing much of the work myself, I'm just managing other people, other teams of people, other managers and managing managers doing, you know? So, um yeah, so that's probably answers that question.
so the tools, tools, eso have been doing this a long time, and the tools are constantly changing. So it's not that important to know any particular tool in our industry. I'm sure this is not true of every industry. What I think is more important is being able to adapt to new tools or maybe even better, create new tools, right? Or find better ways of using, you know, things that are out there. Um, you know, we use of course, you know, Google. We use zoom info for sourcing. You know, prospects like client new client prospects we use linked in a lot. We use all the job borns once turned dice and CareerBuilder, and indeed and, um, way have an applicant tracking system and a customer more relationship management system. Um, if I had to pick any of those that I think you should be familiar with, it's probably linked in for our industry. Um, but it's not difficult, right? Tool? Um, anybody should be able to familiarize themselves with it in a day or two. It's how you use the tool that's important. So