Speaker 1: He's been a great asset to the team, and it's
Speaker 1: it's fun to have around, and he's he's just soaking
Speaker 1: all this stuff up like a sponge. When Eric Schubert
Speaker 1: hired Chris Brewer to join the Vancouver, Washington office of
Speaker 1: Express Employment Professionals, he thought he had a winner, but
Speaker 1: he didn't know the full extent of the journey Chris
Speaker 1: had taken. After a year, both men are sure they've
Speaker 1: made the right choice. On this edition of On the
Speaker 1: Job from Express Employment Professionals, we meet a young man
Speaker 1: whose life took a radical detour and who landed on
Speaker 1: his feet in a job where he can help others
Speaker 1: every day. If you want to find your next job,
Speaker 1: or if you're a company hoping to grow your workforce,
Speaker 1: Express Employment Professionals is for you. Find more information at
Speaker 1: express pros dot com. Chris Brewer and I are driving
Speaker 1: around his hometown, Vancouver, Washington. He tells me that he
Speaker 1: dropped out of high school at age fifty, quick going,
Speaker 1: and then I started working. Got my first job at
Speaker 1: a golf course and worked there for about a year.
Speaker 1: Then you started working odd jobs, then worked for les
Speaker 1: Schwab Tires for about a year, then I quit that
Speaker 1: job and join the army. What did you do with
Speaker 1: the golf course? Worked on the driving rain show as
Speaker 1: a moving target. That's how that. That's all that was.
Speaker 1: I washed golf carts and did the driving range and
Speaker 1: literally turned into a moving target whenever got in that
Speaker 1: golf card to go get the range balls off the
Speaker 1: driving range. There's a funny commercial you've probably seen with
Speaker 1: that same theme. So you can probably picture Chris under
Speaker 1: fire from golf balls. But it's all part of something
Speaker 1: we'll learn about him and much more depth. He's unstoppable.
Speaker 1: What'd you learn from that job? Golf balls hurt um it,
Speaker 1: But it taught me a lot of responsibility too, because
Speaker 1: I was there by myself, so I had in that
Speaker 1: part of the golf course. So I had to stay
Speaker 1: on top of uh getting you know, golf balls for
Speaker 1: the driving range and uh having enough golf carts ready
Speaker 1: for um when people would show up for the twilight
Speaker 1: golf at about two thirty in the afternoon. And but
Speaker 1: just a lot of self responsibility because you had to
Speaker 1: work by yourself and stay up on top of everything.
Speaker 1: After the golf course, there were odd jobs then the
Speaker 1: tire store for a while, but an event in two
Speaker 1: thousand three inspired Chris to make what he thought was
Speaker 1: a move into a lifetime career. And this one day
Speaker 1: I just up and quit. Was like, I'm gonna join
Speaker 1: the army because my friend came who um I went
Speaker 1: to high school with, was killed in Iraq in two
Speaker 1: thousand three, and he was the first person from Vancouver
Speaker 1: to be killed in both con or in either of
Speaker 1: the two conflicts. And I was like, well, I gotta
Speaker 1: do it, finally do it. And so I did. And
Speaker 1: my parents were not happy at all about me joining
Speaker 1: the Army. I walked in because it disappeared for two
Speaker 1: days and I was like I was walking. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I joined the Army. I leave for basic training and
Speaker 1: in a week and they're like, so that's how that went.
Speaker 1: Chris didn't really know what to expect from basic training.
Speaker 1: The Army takes raw recruits and tries to toughen them up. Well,
Speaker 1: the hardest part for basic training, and like I told
Speaker 1: the kids when I was a recruiter, it's like, if
Speaker 1: you've ever went to a sports camp, basic training will
Speaker 1: be up cake walk for you. But so Fort Knox,
Speaker 1: Kentucky has these hills they don't notorious throughout the army
Speaker 1: called heartbreak, misery, and agony, and they are just so
Speaker 1: insanely long and steep. Like one of them, it's so steep,
Speaker 1: like when you're going up you can actually reach your
Speaker 1: arm out and touch the asphalt. Is that Steve. So
Speaker 1: that was the hardest part for me. It was those
Speaker 1: three hills because I had despised them, so they were
Speaker 1: not fun. Other than that, it was easy. Korea has
Speaker 1: been in the news a lot lately, both the South,
Speaker 1: where the Olympics were held, and the North, where the
Speaker 1: political situation has us on guard. Chris served two tours
Speaker 1: of duty in South Korea and that place is the
Speaker 1: most beautiful country I've ever been to. The people are
Speaker 1: super friendly, um, very welcoming and when they find out
Speaker 1: that you're an American and um, yeah, recommend anybody goes
Speaker 1: to Korea and a heartbeat and not be afraid of
Speaker 1: the guy that's in North Korea. So yeah, when you're
Speaker 1: deployed to Korea, what's your day to day like there?
Speaker 1: In all honesty is the exact same as it would
Speaker 1: be a state side for me, because my ji worked
Speaker 1: with a Patriot missile system, so like we trained a lot,
Speaker 1: but I still woke up and did PT at six
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. And PT stands for physical training, alright,
Speaker 1: so exercise and so forth every more Monday through Friday exercise.
Speaker 1: After that it was onto the motor pool for maintenance
Speaker 1: of the vehicles, and the time was filled with plenty
Speaker 1: of training on their specific job responsibilities, which Chris can't
Speaker 1: go into in too much detail, but his overall impression
Speaker 1: of the people of Korea and the country was overwhelmingly positive.
Speaker 1: Now talking with Chris, you can hear how life in
Speaker 1: the army goes in cycles. Korea, then back to ford Hood, Texas,
Speaker 1: and Korea again. But Chris's life was about to undergo
Speaker 1: another big change after a chance meeting sparked the conversation.
Speaker 1: This was one of the first things Chris wanted to
Speaker 1: tell me as we were having breakfast on the day
Speaker 1: of our interview. Like most everything else, Chris says, he
Speaker 1: sounds a bit nonchalant about this, but his eyes are sparkling.
Speaker 1: And then ten I got stationed and for Ulis, Texas,
Speaker 1: which is an El Paso, so the middle of the desert,
Speaker 1: and that's where I met my wife. Um. She worked
Speaker 1: at a gas station or a convenience store, whichever he
Speaker 1: preferred to call it. And I just happened to come
Speaker 1: in one day and I had to talk and to her,
Speaker 1: and I got ready to leave about thirty minutes later
Speaker 1: because she looked really bored us. I was like, I
Speaker 1: wanna started talking, because like, you look bored. What I
Speaker 1: let off with, I mean, I SACA and I went
Speaker 1: to a walk out. She's like, well, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: ask me for my phone number? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, can I have your phone number? Then?
Speaker 1: And here we are, all these years later, now we're married.
Speaker 1: We've been married for February twenty six will be a year.
Speaker 1: That happy event was still far in the future when
Speaker 1: Chris was sent to the Middle East. Then two thousand
Speaker 1: and eleven, I got deployed to bah Rain, which was
Speaker 1: the most miserable year of my life. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever been there, but bah Rain's eleven miles
Speaker 1: wide and thirty one miles long, so it's crazy small
Speaker 1: and take you about an hour to drive around the
Speaker 1: whole entire country. UM. And I was on a little
Speaker 1: eighty bitty air base which was refa air base. UM.
Speaker 1: And our job was ballistic missile defense, you know, from
Speaker 1: anything might become like out an Iran or anything like that.
Speaker 1: To pass the time and stay fit, Chris lifted weights.
Speaker 1: Now when I was preparing to meet him and learn
Speaker 1: about his life, I did hear that he'd had an
Speaker 1: accident when he was in the service, but I pictured
Speaker 1: something service related. The incident that was to end his
Speaker 1: dream of serving twenty years in the military happened in
Speaker 1: the gym and was just an unfortunate and awful fluke.
Speaker 1: It happened when I was in Ba Rain. What happened
Speaker 1: that day, I was actually I was just working out
Speaker 1: at the gym. I mean, yeah, really, he was just
Speaker 1: trying to because I had I had a good amount
Speaker 1: of downtime, so I'd work out two times a day.
Speaker 1: And so I tried to go for a new record
Speaker 1: for Wait for Me, and my back didn't like it.
Speaker 1: He heard of pop and his drop the weights. That
Speaker 1: wasn't quite the end of Chris's military career. He was
Speaker 1: a and to work in Northern Virginia for a while
Speaker 1: and then became a fantastically successful recruiter, but Army doctors
Speaker 1: caught up with him found his extensive injuries and realized
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't stay in the service. So I got
Speaker 1: medically retired because of my back. I would have did
Speaker 1: the folks morning if I would have had the chance.
Speaker 1: So how did they tell you? Do they send a letter?
Speaker 1: Do they call you into the office? How do you
Speaker 1: get this news that that your whole life is about
Speaker 1: to change? Um? So what you do is it's called
Speaker 1: a medical board. So your case gets presented to army
Speaker 1: doctors and you go through the med board process, which
Speaker 1: takes about seven or eight months. And at the end
Speaker 1: of that process is and when you find out yea
Speaker 1: or nay that you can either stay in or you
Speaker 1: gotta go. So and I I knew that I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be staying in, so I started preparing, started
Speaker 1: getting everything all packed up and ready to go. And
Speaker 1: then I got the letter in the mail said you
Speaker 1: I took all my in these five days of vacation
Speaker 1: that I had saved up, and I came home to Washington.
Speaker 1: All right, you're here, You're now you have to take
Speaker 1: sort of a left turn. And this was wasn't what
Speaker 1: you planned. You had a different plan. So what what
Speaker 1: are the kinds of things you start doing once you're
Speaker 1: back home. Um So there for about a month or so,
Speaker 1: I went into a pretty dark space and I was
Speaker 1: just in a downward spiral. And I thankfully I had
Speaker 1: my friends Jason and Sherman and Richard who won the brewery.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, Chris, like you want to come help
Speaker 1: us build the brewery? And I was like sure. So
Speaker 1: I did that for the first six months that or
Speaker 1: after that initial like depression face because this is a
Speaker 1: lifestyle that you get so used to, you know, do
Speaker 1: it for ten years and then they tell you can't
Speaker 1: do it anymore, and you don't. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do with myself. So that then I helped them
Speaker 1: and I got to get really really they weren't my
Speaker 1: friends per se. Then they were acquainted, is that I knew.
Speaker 1: But then over the six months of us building that place,
Speaker 1: we became really really good friends, and it altered my life,
Speaker 1: Like they were great and it made me feel like
Speaker 1: I had a purpose again. As you're starting to get
Speaker 1: to know Chris Brewer, you can probably tell that having
Speaker 1: a purpose is key to his sense of well being,
Speaker 1: whether it was working on Patriot missile systems or switching
Speaker 1: to recruiting before he was, as he says, med boarded
Speaker 1: out of the Army. After the break, we'll learn more
Speaker 1: about how he helped his friends build their microbrewery in Vancouver, Washington,
Speaker 1: and once that volunteer gig was done, how he pursued
Speaker 1: and earned a job at the Express Employment Professionals office
Speaker 1: in Vancouver as a staffing consultant. You're listening to On
Speaker 1: the Job, the podcast from Express Employment Professionals. One company
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Speaker 1: and the story of Chris Brewer, who found meaning helping
Speaker 1: others find jobs after his own career reached a turning point.
Speaker 1: Chris didn't go directly from the Army to express prose.
Speaker 1: He did what many people recommend when thinking about life transitions.
Speaker 1: He dove into an all consuming volunteer job to acquaint
Speaker 1: himself with civilian life and get his mind focused on
Speaker 1: positive energy. In an industrial area of Vancouver, Washington, a
Speaker 1: micro brewery is becoming a destination for beer lovers. Brothers
Speaker 1: Cascadia is open every afternoon and evening with food trucks
Speaker 1: out front for those who love fine beer. Jason, the brewmaster,
Speaker 1: is showing me around. So in the fermaters, this is
Speaker 1: where we're gonna add yeast and let fermentation happen. The
Speaker 1: beer will sitting there for roughly two to three weeks
Speaker 1: while it's finishing. We may add more secondary greediance to
Speaker 1: that or not, depending on the beer. And then uh,
Speaker 1: this is also where we'll carbonate the beer and then
Speaker 1: package it as well. So where did Chris fit in here? Well,
Speaker 1: once he had reconciled himself to leaving the army and
Speaker 1: spent a month or so with his head down, he
Speaker 1: offered his services completely as a volunteer to help build
Speaker 1: this brewery. Yeah, my name is Sherman Gore and uh,
Speaker 1: one of the owners of Brothers Cascadia brewing here in Vancouver, Washington.
Speaker 1: Sherman Gore has poured himself a glass of cast Scadia's
Speaker 1: best beer and sits down to talk with me about
Speaker 1: his friend. How how I met Chris was basically about
Speaker 1: how I met everybody that is a part of this
Speaker 1: family here at Brother's Cascadia. Uh. The three owners, Jason
Speaker 1: Richards and myself, we were all bartenders and servers and
Speaker 1: brewers that in a place called north Wood up in Battleground, Washington,
Speaker 1: and we were able to get a bunch of people
Speaker 1: behind us for the brewery and Chris happened to be
Speaker 1: one of our regulars there and we've got to know him.
Speaker 1: And through circumstances, Uh, since Chris didn't have a job
Speaker 1: at the time, he started volunteering down at the at
Speaker 1: the brewery and became one of the family members down here,
Speaker 1: and he was here at least five days a week
Speaker 1: helping us out. It was it was, it was incredible, incredible.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just someone that showed up every day. Actually
Speaker 1: he brought something every day, you know, So it was
Speaker 1: it was fun to be around. But he was also
Speaker 1: he was willing to learn from some of the electricians
Speaker 1: and contractors, and also he was willing to do research
Speaker 1: and all sorts of stuff. So he became when we
Speaker 1: asked him, you know after after a little while, was hey, Chris,
Speaker 1: would you like to help with this? You know, this
Speaker 1: has become became kind of a thing that that Chris
Speaker 1: really made himself invaluable just do hard work. Even with
Speaker 1: if he didn't even have any skills in a certain area,
Speaker 1: he made himself valuable in that area and became just like, well,
Speaker 1: Chris is going to help us with this, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna help us with that. And I mean he really is.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a one of those old old school
Speaker 1: stories to where he really got involved in and he
Speaker 1: made himself to it that we couldn't imagine it without him. Now,
Speaker 1: so then it's a yeah, I mean he's just part
Speaker 1: of the family now. It's that's just how it is.
Speaker 1: He became such a part of the family that he
Speaker 1: had his wedding here. Part of the family maybe. But
Speaker 1: remember two things. Chris was a full time volunteer in
Speaker 1: the effort building the Brewer re, so he didn't have
Speaker 1: a salary during that time, and there was never any
Speaker 1: promise made about the future. There it's a micro staff
Speaker 1: as well as a micro brewery. So once the hard
Speaker 1: work of constructing the place was over, Chris was once
Speaker 1: more forced to confront the future. Where could he go
Speaker 1: from here? On the hunt for paid work. Now, Chris
Speaker 1: attends a job fair. Eric Schubert, who with his wife Julie,
Speaker 1: runs the Express Employment Professional's office in Vancouver, Washington, had
Speaker 1: sent someone from that office to the fair, And the
Speaker 1: story behind it was before I met Chris, was that
Speaker 1: Chris was at this job fair. He was coming out
Speaker 1: of the military, um, looking for his first civilian job,
Speaker 1: and um, he met Michelle, and um, the first thing
Speaker 1: that Michelle noticed was now this was after the fact,
Speaker 1: of course we found this out, but noticed that his
Speaker 1: hair was long and and he he he was nice
Speaker 1: and and and really looking forward to starting a new job.
Speaker 1: But he came in the next day completely high and
Speaker 1: tight haircut, ready for an interview with his suit and
Speaker 1: tie and all this kind of stuff. And Michelle didn't
Speaker 1: even recognize him when he walked in the door. But
Speaker 1: he took it. He obviously took it serious. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was ready and uh, and that's that's when he
Speaker 1: ended up meeting with me all right now. You have
Speaker 1: a lot of meetings I've seen, I've been in the
Speaker 1: office for a while, a lot of people come in
Speaker 1: and out of there. When you had that first meeting
Speaker 1: with him, what what stood out to you? Mm hmm. Well,
Speaker 1: to me, I could instantly instantly tell he was polished, um,
Speaker 1: which which was kind of funny in the beginning, because
Speaker 1: that's Michelle was like, I don't remember him looking all
Speaker 1: polished when I saw him at the interview, but it
Speaker 1: was fun and it was a big joke for a while.
Speaker 1: But but um, but that was my thing, is he
Speaker 1: came in looking all polished, and he um, he did.
Speaker 1: He just had a good attitude about about life in
Speaker 1: general and just just wanted to help people. And he
Speaker 1: spent the you know, the first few minutes of our
Speaker 1: of our meeting, talking about his recruiting experience for the
Speaker 1: military and um, and that's I mean, that's helping people
Speaker 1: get into the military, and we're also helping people find jobs.
Speaker 1: So it seemed like that was a good match. And
Speaker 1: I just said, what do you think about working in
Speaker 1: here for us? And that's where it's kind of started
Speaker 1: and and I and I said, well can you, I mean,
Speaker 1: can you start tomorrow because we were in need of
Speaker 1: some help at the front desk. I said, because I
Speaker 1: think you'd be awesome at it, and he says, actually, Eric,
Speaker 1: I'm I appreciate it, but I'm gonna have to turn
Speaker 1: you down. And of all things, when Eric offered me
Speaker 1: the job, He's like, so, can you start tomorrow? And
Speaker 1: I was like no, and he gave me this funny
Speaker 1: look because like, I just offered you a job and
Speaker 1: you're telling me no. And I was like, and I
Speaker 1: was a little thrown off by that. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, like you're gonna be great? Like
Speaker 1: why are you gonna turn me down? While he was
Speaker 1: getting married the next day, like, well, in my defense,
Speaker 1: I'm getting married on Sunday, and well she my fiancee.
Speaker 1: They have my wife now, And I was like, she's
Speaker 1: flying in in a couple of hours and where everything's
Speaker 1: already paid for it, we're doing everything. So so he
Speaker 1: ended up having and I said, oh, well why don't
Speaker 1: you say so. I'm like, you made me think that
Speaker 1: I was like offering you a bad position or something.
Speaker 1: And so then he um. He ended up going off
Speaker 1: and get got married, and then then he started shortly
Speaker 1: after that said, I've been here ever something almost a
Speaker 1: year now and it's been a great experience so far.
Speaker 1: And I love waking up and doing what I do
Speaker 1: and helping the people that we get to help because
Speaker 1: Eric and Julie took me in and helped me out
Speaker 1: when I was in a in a bad, bad situation,
Speaker 1: and I just love the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: feel like I truly accomplished something by helping people find
Speaker 1: their find jobs. I'm getting them working so they can
Speaker 1: still take care of their family, and that's a really,
Speaker 1: really good feeling to me. Chris is a busy bee.
Speaker 1: That's Tunisia Williams, a fellow staff and consultant at Express Pros.
Speaker 1: That's what I call him because bees are very important
Speaker 1: population insect for this world to go around, so um
Speaker 1: I call him a busy bee because he does whatever
Speaker 1: he can to help the team, to help himself, to
Speaker 1: help everyone around him. So being a busy bee, he's
Speaker 1: always moving and doing whatever you can to make sure
Speaker 1: that everyone is successful, not just hisself. As when he
Speaker 1: was talking about his resume, he was real proud that
Speaker 1: he was one of the best recruiters in the country
Speaker 1: from a from a statistic standpoint, and um, and that
Speaker 1: that appealed to me as well, because I'm like, he's
Speaker 1: obviously got the drive. And my own dad was a
Speaker 1: recruiter for the army in the past, so I know
Speaker 1: how much it takes to to go to all the
Speaker 1: high schools and to go to all the career centers
Speaker 1: and and and I mean there's a lot to be
Speaker 1: considered one of the best in the country as a
Speaker 1: recruiter standpoint. UM. And so I knew I knew he
Speaker 1: would be successful here, like just just knowing that driving itself,
Speaker 1: I knew I knew he could do it. So that
Speaker 1: was one of the big decision making factors for hiring him.
Speaker 1: To UM, I would say, someone who is definitely um
Speaker 1: having a heart of helping people. I think that's the
Speaker 1: most important thing. The actual staffing consultant position can be taught,
Speaker 1: but you have to have a heart for people. That's
Speaker 1: the only way you'll be successful. And tell me about
Speaker 1: some examples in the last six months of how you've
Speaker 1: seen that in Chris, that that he's just not doing
Speaker 1: the job, but has that, as you say, a heart
Speaker 1: for people, UM, Well, Chris, his willingness to help people.
Speaker 1: Is not just in associates, is also in his clients
Speaker 1: as well as even us as co workers. He's always
Speaker 1: there in the mornings. Um, he's there kind of waiting
Speaker 1: for us, ready to go, kind of preparing us on
Speaker 1: everything we need to do that we may have missed. UM.
Speaker 1: So he's very verbal and he's you know, he cares
Speaker 1: about us a lot, even on a professional and personal level.
Speaker 1: Chris's path at Express Employment Professionals as born out everyone's
Speaker 1: confidence in him. He started as a front office coordinator,
Speaker 1: really the heart of the operation in some ways, helping
Speaker 1: people who come in the door find their way through
Speaker 1: the system. Two jobs. After six months, a position opened
Speaker 1: up as a staff and consultant and that's what he
Speaker 1: does now. So he's also interfacing with clients as well
Speaker 1: as associates. There's a great example of how Chris has
Speaker 1: gone above and beyond to help everyone. And it really
Speaker 1: just depends on um. Like, we really try to take
Speaker 1: care of our associates. So we have, like I said,
Speaker 1: the Gummy Bear vitamin factory. UM, so the production is
Speaker 1: done here in Vancouver, right down the road. It's about
Speaker 1: two and a half mile three miles from here. UM.
Speaker 1: The packaging and sorting and all that for the Gummy
Speaker 1: Bear vitamins has done up in Ridgefield, which is just
Speaker 1: up the highway I think eight exits from here, nine
Speaker 1: exits um. But I was talking to our local public
Speaker 1: transportation and they have a bus that runs out there
Speaker 1: a couple of times a day, and I spoke to them.
Speaker 1: I spoke to their like president of the division that
Speaker 1: does the planning for the routes last week, um to
Speaker 1: see if we could get them to shift, um the
Speaker 1: pickup time like a few minutes earlier. So he could,
Speaker 1: because then if we could, I could get associates that
Speaker 1: are on public transportation out to work at the Ridgefield
Speaker 1: factory with public transportation. So I told him how many
Speaker 1: of people we have working out there, and they're strongly
Speaker 1: considering changing the bus schedule so people are our associates
Speaker 1: can get to work. I don't know. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been doing this a long time. I've never had somebody
Speaker 1: called the bus station athid change of schedule for a
Speaker 1: bunch of people looking for work. Um, that was pretty neat.
Speaker 1: That was pretty neat. We don't have an answer yet,
Speaker 1: but he did say that it was It was a
Speaker 1: good possibility. He's been a great asset to the team
Speaker 1: and and it's it's fun to have him around. And
Speaker 1: he's he's just soaking all this stuff up like a sponge,
Speaker 1: and UM, I can just tell in his heart he
Speaker 1: really loves to help people. So this is a I
Speaker 1: think this is a good long term fit for him.
Speaker 1: I get the sense that you're a bit of a
Speaker 1: spark plug here in the office that people kind of
Speaker 1: count on you your good energy and your high spirits
Speaker 1: and and it kind of helps bring the office forward.
Speaker 1: Is that sometimes a struggle for you or is that
Speaker 1: something that comes natural or how does that work with you? Um,
Speaker 1: it comes naturally. I've always been a wiry person when
Speaker 1: it comes to I'm sure they said, my coworkers said,
Speaker 1: and my boss said something about it. I move at
Speaker 1: a hundred miles an hour. You if you catch me
Speaker 1: moping or going slow, there's something wrong, and they will
Speaker 1: call me out on it, like, what's wrong, Chris, You're
Speaker 1: not your normal self. And it's happened before, and it's
Speaker 1: just how I have gotta So. I had my boss
Speaker 1: when I was in Korea. His name was Staff, so
Speaker 1: that Danny of staff starts Keel He used to tell
Speaker 1: us every days, like, if you're not gonna give me
Speaker 1: a hundred percent, why are you showing up? He's like,
Speaker 1: I needed people that are trained and ready to go
Speaker 1: to war and want to do what they have to
Speaker 1: do if we have to do it. So that's how
Speaker 1: I've been ever since. D percent. No matter where I go,
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, you're not gonna well, no one's gonna
Speaker 1: change me. I'm gonna beat myself until the day that
Speaker 1: I'm going So I may not be as fast in
Speaker 1: twenty years, but I'll still be giving a That's Chris Brewer,
Speaker 1: a staff and consultant with Express Employment Professionals in Vancouver, Washington.
Speaker 1: And that's all for this edition of On the Job.
Speaker 1: Find out more at Express Pros dot com, and you
Speaker 1: can listen to every podcast this season at Express Pros
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