Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Reason I Changed Careers-Part 1

Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per

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I got my construction company. I'm driving one of my dump trucks, like 60 miles with a load of junk on it ‘coz I've gotta get to an appointment to deliver a proposal to try to get the next job, right? Drive shaft on the, a U-joint on the drive shaft of my truck breaks. I kinda know what it is, I've dealt with it before and I'm like, “Holy crap! I'm gonna miss the appointment!” So I jumped out of the truck while it's still rolling and I pushed it just enough to get it into the shoulder. The wheel is like this far across the line. So I call up the service station and the guy's name is Vinny. “Vinny, can you come out here? I know it's the U-joint. I looked under, ahh it's the u joint. Can you bring it out here? Can we fix it? Maybe I can still make my appointment.” And so it is so hot out, it's in the summer, it's like 90 degrees and humid up at home and I say, “Can you bring some water? I'm dying out here. So he shows up 15 minutes later, and I'm under the truck and we're on a major highway and a foot away is the right hand lane. So I know it's the U-joint. He's like, “It's the U-joint?” I'm like, “Yes.” We know how to fix it, we get under there. I'm holding the drive shaft above my head and Vinny's next to me. All of a sudden he takes off, I'm like, “What? What happened?” He's like, “You gotta get out of there!” And I hear this hissing sound like "ssssssss" coming by. I look around and I'm like, “What the hell was that noise?” And I looked and it was a line painting truck. They're painting the white line. They painted my head white while I'm holding the thing underneath the broken truck and I said, “That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. I'm done.”

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