{"id":1141,"date":"2015-07-15T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecheck.server285.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:42:46","slug":"dale-grubers-construction-career-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Dale Gruber’s Construction Career Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We sat down with Dale Gruber<\/a>, the owner of Home Check Plus and Dale Gruber Construction<\/a> and asked him a few questions about his career in construction.<\/div>\n
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Why did you want to go into carpentry\/construction?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I always liked making things with my hands. I made many toys, barns, and other items growing up as a kid. I helped my grandpa tear down homes and saved the wood to use on the farm buildings. I enjoyed building and repairing many buildings on the farm growing up, so I thought this is what I would like to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What’s the 1st thing you remember building?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a kid, maybe fourth grade, I built a model size barn 3’-0’,4’-0” x 3’-0” high It was complete with the horseshoe style hay barn, stanchions for the cows and all the other items that went into a barn back in the 60’s. The barn had a rope and pulley system to haul miniature hay bales into the barn by hooking a toy tractor onto the rope and pulling them up. This was modeled after the real system in barns back then. In high school I made a magazine rack and many other pieces of furniture in wood shop.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What’s do you enjoy most about working in the industry? Being the President\/Owner of HCP & DGC?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really enjoy coming up with a design solution for the customer. Whether it is a remodeling job or a new project, I like seeing a project progress to completion. It is also nice to see my employees<\/a> proud of what they have accomplished. As an owner, it is great helping employees grow in their knowledge year after year and like what they do.<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor’s note: I thought he would say getting to work with his daughter \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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What skills or qualities are important to have in this line of work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe patience, honesty and having the ability to visualize ideas for customers are very valuable. I think it is also important to like working both indoors & outdoors, enjoy figuring things out mathematically & visually and have the desire to continue learn new ways of doing things.<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you could give some advice to someone considering a career in construction, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My advice would be to take as many design drafting, shop, communication and math\/accounting classes as you can in high school. It’s all relevant to construction whether you want to work for someone in construction or own your own business.<\/em><\/p>\n

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For those who are considering a job change or are wondering what to do after high school, consider going to a tech college like SCTCC<\/a> for the Carpentry program or the Construction Technology program; depending on what type of construction field you would like to be in.  There is a wealth of knowledge available in these programs for the construction industry. They also give you an edge over someone that has not gone through the program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We sat down with\u00a0Dale Gruber<\/a>, the owner of Home Check Plus and\u00a0Dale Gruber Construction<\/a>\u00a0and asked him a few questions about his career in construction.<\/div>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nWhy did you want to go into carpentry\/construction?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI always liked making things with my hands. I made many toys, barns, and other items growing up as a kid. I helped my grandpa tear down homes and saved the wood to use on the farm buildings. I enjoyed building and repairing many buildings on the farm growing up, so I thought this is what I would like to do.<\/em>\r\n\r\nWhat's the 1st thing you remember building?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAs a kid, maybe fourth grade, I built a model size barn 3\u2019-0\u2019,4\u2019-0\u201d x 3\u2019-0\u201d high It was complete with the horseshoe style hay barn, stanchions for the cows and all the other items that went into a barn back in the 60\u2019s. The barn had a rope and pulley system to haul miniature hay bales into the barn by hooking a toy tractor onto the rope and pulling them up. This was modeled after the real system in barns back then. In high school I made a magazine rack and many other pieces of furniture in wood shop.<\/em>\r\n\r\nWhat's do you enjoy most about working in the industry? Being the President\/Owner of HCP & DGC?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI really enjoy coming up with a design solution for the customer. Whether it is a remodeling job or a new project, I like seeing a project progress to completion. It is also nice to see my\u00a0employees<\/a>\u00a0proud of what they have accomplished. As an owner, it is great helping employees grow in their knowledge year after year and like what they do.<\/em>\r\n\r\nEditor's note: I thought he would say getting to work with his daughter :)\r\n\r\nWhat skills or qualities are important to have in this line of work?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI believe patience, honesty and having the ability to visualize ideas for customers are very valuable. I think it is also important to like working both indoors & outdoors, enjoy figuring things out mathematically & visually and have the desire to continue learn new ways of doing things.<\/em>\r\n\r\nIf you could give some advice to someone considering a career in construction, what would it be?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMy advice would be to take as many design drafting, shop, communication and math\/accounting classes as you can in high school. It\u2019s all relevant to construction whether you want to work for someone in construction or own your own business.<\/em>\r\n\r\nFor those who are considering a job change or are wondering what to do after high school, consider going to a tech college like\u00a0SCTCC<\/a>\u00a0for the Carpentry program or the Construction Technology program; depending on what type of construction field you would like to be in.\u00a0 There is a wealth of knowledge available in these programs for the construction industry. They also give you an edge over someone that has not gone through the program.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dales-remodeling-corner","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}