Speaker 1: Ye, Welcome to On the Job. This season, we're focusing
Speaker 1: on how people and businesses are getting back to work.
Speaker 1: Let's call it a great transformation, a change in the
Speaker 1: way workers are thinking. Employers need people to work more
Speaker 1: than ever, putting laborers in a sort of position of power.
Speaker 1: We'll be hearing from people navigating this new normal for
Speaker 1: themselves as they find their life's work. In the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, the workforce has been experiencing what we're
Speaker 1: gonna call a great transformation. Basically, COVID has motivated a
Speaker 1: lot of people to re evaluate what they do for
Speaker 1: work every day, changing the way in which they do
Speaker 1: their job and inspiring a lot of people to leave
Speaker 1: their stable careers altogether. Well, today we talked to Scott
Speaker 1: who took an enormous risk leaving his work and marketing
Speaker 1: to do something completely different. Did ever have a week's stomach?
Speaker 1: No um, even the first time, being around like a
Speaker 1: dead animal like, I don't know it never really like
Speaker 1: bothered me. This is Scott Kerry, and having a strong
Speaker 1: stomach is kind of a requirement for his new line
Speaker 1: of work. I am a whole animal butcher and I
Speaker 1: own Slate Belt Butchery We're located in Sailorsburg, Pennsylvania. Sailorsburg
Speaker 1: is just north of Allentown, Pennsylvania, a big city but
Speaker 1: surrounded by lots of farmland. Pretty ideal for being a
Speaker 1: whole animal butcher. It's a little different than like a
Speaker 1: retail butcher, where we're selling behind a case to customers
Speaker 1: that walk in. We are actually um a farm processor,
Speaker 1: so we take animals from the farms. When we process
Speaker 1: them down from carcass to cut. Scott doesn't do the
Speaker 1: slaughter that happens at a different facility, and then he
Speaker 1: has the animals delivered to him. He breaks them down
Speaker 1: into different cuts and packages them for retail for the
Speaker 1: farmers to sell however they'd like. So we're basically the
Speaker 1: middleman between a farmer and the end user. After over
Speaker 1: a decade in marketing, Scott opened Slate Belt Butchery in August.
Speaker 1: They've only been opened a little over a year, but
Speaker 1: they are busy. A big part of that is there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of small processors doing what he does anymore.
Speaker 1: Number one, I think a lot of butchers are retiring
Speaker 1: and they're not passing on their their trade to like
Speaker 1: someone else. This is true, big agriculture has had a
Speaker 1: huge impact on small family farming. Another reason. Scott believes
Speaker 1: today's world values a four year college degree over learning
Speaker 1: a trade skill. And so, like a lot of butchers
Speaker 1: that I talked to you that are retiring, like they
Speaker 1: just can't find the workforce or people that really want
Speaker 1: to do the work. I mean it's it's like it's dirty,
Speaker 1: it's cold, it's not like the most glamorous job. But
Speaker 1: for anyone who's willing to do it, there's not a
Speaker 1: shortage of work out there because it's needed, you know,
Speaker 1: like there's so many farms out there that need processing. Um.
Speaker 1: We work really hard, you know, um, every day. So
Speaker 1: a day in the life at Slate Belt Butchery, it
Speaker 1: starts pretty early. I mean we I wake up at
Speaker 1: five am, um, and then I'm usually in the shop
Speaker 1: by six am. He and his crew have a team meeting.
Speaker 1: Scott delegates what everyone's doing for the day. It's like
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do, here's who I want doing what, um,
Speaker 1: and then we just get to work, like making sausage.
Speaker 1: I'll put someone on sausage, or slicing bacon, or breaking
Speaker 1: down animals. Scott does a little of everything, but he's
Speaker 1: more on the logistical end. Now he's got two full
Speaker 1: time butchers, someone for packing, a driver and his business partner, Mike.
Speaker 1: And Mike is like less on the business side and
Speaker 1: more on the production side. So Mike's really good at
Speaker 1: like just leading the breakdown of animals, and like it's like,
Speaker 1: okay if I like step away to like handle customers,
Speaker 1: because I'm like keeping the business coming through the doors,
Speaker 1: and Mike is keeping the business going out the doors
Speaker 1: so we can bring more business in. Still he hops
Speaker 1: in wherever needed. Some days they're making ground beef, some
Speaker 1: days they're carrying hams. They've got a smokehouse, so some
Speaker 1: days they're busy smoking bell season all kinds of other cuts.
Speaker 1: Halfway through my day, I usually step away to answer
Speaker 1: phone calls, handle emails. When we first started, it was
Speaker 1: just me and Mike just cutting and processing, and I
Speaker 1: would say, like I was probably holding a knife a
Speaker 1: lot more during those times. But they've been doing so
Speaker 1: well and they've gotten so much business over this past
Speaker 1: year that taking in new customers is a job all
Speaker 1: in itself, honestly, Like you tell one farmer, hey, there's
Speaker 1: a new processor in town, Like three farmers are gonna
Speaker 1: call me. Scott got in at the right time. Locally
Speaker 1: sourced food is in more demand than ever, and at
Speaker 1: the same time, small processors like him are harder and
Speaker 1: harder to come by. Yeah, if we're not around, it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be nothing but these massive, big agg facilities,
Speaker 1: and then you're not gonna have any local meat. A
Speaker 1: lot of butchers going to the trade because that's what
Speaker 1: their parents did or that's the industry they grew up around.
Speaker 1: Not the case for Scott. He grew up about an
Speaker 1: hour north of where he now around scrant His dad
Speaker 1: was an I T. He had to stay at home,
Speaker 1: mom and my whole like basically a childhood, it was
Speaker 1: it was like go to college, get a four year degree.
Speaker 1: Like there was no real like talk about like trades,
Speaker 1: no matter like who you would go talk to you,
Speaker 1: whether it was a teacher or your parents or friends.
Speaker 1: Like everyone was going to college and so that was
Speaker 1: my path. Scott's high school experience was similar to mine,
Speaker 1: and that we had a trade school attached to our
Speaker 1: high school building where kids could go learn plumbing and
Speaker 1: mechanics and electrical work. But they did have a reputation
Speaker 1: trade school was almost like one step away from like Juvie,
Speaker 1: Like it was like the bad kids went there. For me,
Speaker 1: looking back, I think that trade school that I grew
Speaker 1: up around had a bad rat because it was just
Speaker 1: a very working class environment, which is pretty messed up.
Speaker 1: And it was just like I was conditioned to like
Speaker 1: just think that I didn't even think about going to
Speaker 1: a trade It was just like, Oh, you're gonna go
Speaker 1: to college and then all right, you're gonna major in
Speaker 1: like the sciences, liberal arts or like business or something,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like I didn't even think
Speaker 1: that like going to school to be like a butcher
Speaker 1: or a chef, or like an electrician or plumber. Like
Speaker 1: it wasn't mean like a thought that it didn't man
Speaker 1: occur to me that I could do that. After high school,
Speaker 1: he immediately went to King's College in his hometown and
Speaker 1: decided he'd get a degree in marketing. Did you know
Speaker 1: you wanted to get a marketing degree or did you
Speaker 1: just kind of like throw a dart at the board
Speaker 1: and just say that's what I'm doing. The reason, the
Speaker 1: real reason why I did it because I played drums
Speaker 1: in a band and I liked the opportunity to like
Speaker 1: booking my band or like making flyers or something. And
Speaker 1: I was just like, well, what is this. It's a
Speaker 1: marketing I was like, well, I like this. Let me
Speaker 1: let me just majoring in Well, how the how the
Speaker 1: band work out? I didn't. Well, he did know is
Speaker 1: that someday, somehow he wanted to be an entrepreneur and
Speaker 1: maybe this is the way to do that. He graduated
Speaker 1: in two thousand nine, immediately got an internship at a
Speaker 1: marketing company, and then started working there full time. I
Speaker 1: knew pretty early on, like I was like, man, this
Speaker 1: is exactly what I didn't want to do. It didn't
Speaker 1: feel like me um personally like I'm I felt I
Speaker 1: feel really antsy when I like sit down and I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting in a computer, Like I can't like sit still.
Speaker 1: I like working with my hands. But he was doing
Speaker 1: Google ads and Facebook ads analytics. He was getting paid well,
Speaker 1: but he was not enjoying it. The entire time I
Speaker 1: was going to school, I was thinking like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to sit in a cubicle. I don't want to
Speaker 1: work in like a corporation. But that's what I was
Speaker 1: going to school for. While I was doing it, and
Speaker 1: I was just like, man, like the career that is
Speaker 1: waiting for me at the end of this, like I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I want to do it. And
Speaker 1: I actually went and I did it for ten years.
Speaker 1: That first job lasted a few years, and then you
Speaker 1: got another one, a two year contract and I and
Speaker 1: I was still doing like web analytics or intern up marketing.
Speaker 1: They offered me good money, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: was only doing it for two years. I was like
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, well, maybe I'll get a promotion a
Speaker 1: couple of years down the road and and maybe it
Speaker 1: will work out for me or something. But the whole
Speaker 1: time he knew there's got to be something else out there, um,
Speaker 1: and I would always try to find like these little
Speaker 1: side hustles and do little things to try to get
Speaker 1: myself out of there. He built custom drums for people
Speaker 1: going back to his music days. That didn't work out,
Speaker 1: so we started any commerce store selling school supplies and
Speaker 1: so like, once I did it and it was starting
Speaker 1: to run, I was like getting these like customer service calls.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, this is like too much for me.
Speaker 1: And it was only like twenty three at the time,
Speaker 1: so I didn't really like understand what it takes to
Speaker 1: run a business. I was kind of more like like
Speaker 1: a entrepreneur, a entrepreneur. Yeah you ever hear that that phrase.
Speaker 1: That's the first time I've ever heard that. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: you like want to be like a business owner, but
Speaker 1: you really don't have, like you don't know what it
Speaker 1: takes to do that. Yeah, you don't know what it takes.
Speaker 1: At some point, he also pitched a cust and design
Speaker 1: card deck on Kickstarter, but he didn't get the funding.
Speaker 1: The years passed and he eventually got married to a
Speaker 1: wonderful woman named Nancy. He bought a house, he had
Speaker 1: bills to pay, and at a certain point his career
Speaker 1: felt like a sunken cost. He built a life around it,
Speaker 1: and he felt stuck. Eventually, I you know, while working
Speaker 1: in the office and stuff, it actually started to like
Speaker 1: affect my mental health and I became like very depressed.
Speaker 1: I think like the Kickstarter thaying like really like took
Speaker 1: it over the edge for me and really like messed
Speaker 1: with my head a little bit because I felt like, man,
Speaker 1: if I can't even get like a Kickstarter project funded
Speaker 1: for a couple of thousand dollars, like I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do anything. I just like
Speaker 1: I remember like coming home from like my job and
Speaker 1: just like for a couple of months, I was just
Speaker 1: like laying on my couch and just like just being
Speaker 1: completely like depressed, and like I think at that point
Speaker 1: was like when it was like okay, like you gotta
Speaker 1: make like a change, like there's something you have to
Speaker 1: do something here, I was like, do I go back
Speaker 1: to school? Like I was kind of at a crossroads,
Speaker 1: like what do I do. Scott was working as a
Speaker 1: web producer for a hospital at this point, doing their analytics,
Speaker 1: running their web page. It was monotonous, but at the time,
Speaker 1: like I was getting really into like backyard barbecue and
Speaker 1: I was just like dabbling back there, and just like
Speaker 1: every weekend I was just like trying different things while
Speaker 1: I was kind of like depressed and like defeated from
Speaker 1: like all these failures and the like my side hustles,
Speaker 1: and I was like still working this job that I
Speaker 1: wasn't percent happy with, but like I was finding like
Speaker 1: happiness just cooking on the weekends. It was the first
Speaker 1: time that Scott was doing something on the side that
Speaker 1: he wasn't trying to grow into a business or make
Speaker 1: a quick buck off the just like brisket. What happened
Speaker 1: was as I, um, my wife knew that, like I
Speaker 1: was very like unhappy with my career or she was
Speaker 1: like like, you need to do something because this is
Speaker 1: like affecting like everything, and so like before I even
Speaker 1: like quit my job in marketing, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: let me get like a part time job, just like
Speaker 1: like on the weekends, like working for like a butcher shop.
Speaker 1: He figured he likes barbecuing, but there weren't a lot
Speaker 1: of barbecue restaurants around and he wanted to learn more
Speaker 1: about meat. So butchering seemed like a good fit and
Speaker 1: you get to supply his backyard barbecue have it. But
Speaker 1: then also like it would just it would get me active,
Speaker 1: get me out of the house, get me away from
Speaker 1: my other job, and it would just give me something
Speaker 1: to do, you know what I mean. And so that's
Speaker 1: what I end up doing it. We'll get back to
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Speaker 1: Scott realized he needed to make a change and started
Speaker 1: reaching out to butchers in his area, seeing if anyone
Speaker 1: needed part time work. One of them said yes, and
Speaker 1: I went in. I told him, I was like, I
Speaker 1: have no experience like doing this. It's like I'm just
Speaker 1: like cooking in my backyard. And they they took a
Speaker 1: shot on me and they brought me on and I
Speaker 1: worked basically Saturday and Sunday for like a couple of
Speaker 1: hours every day for about six months. I should say
Speaker 1: here that the guy who did take a chance on
Speaker 1: him was Mike, the guy who would become Scott's business partner. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Scott starts working in this butcher shop. I like
Speaker 1: learning about like the different cuts. Like I had no
Speaker 1: idea I cooked a brisket and I had no idea
Speaker 1: where on the on the cow where it came from.
Speaker 1: I got cooked the pork butt and I thought it
Speaker 1: came from the pork's butt, and actually is the pork shoulder.
Speaker 1: So like I was like learning all these things, and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, what's a try tip? And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: what's the top round? And like what are all these
Speaker 1: things that I'm like, like I'm starting to cook, he
Speaker 1: inhaled knowledge. Loved learning the craft. He started talking to
Speaker 1: customers more and answering questions. He started looking forward to
Speaker 1: weekends when he would get back into the shop. And
Speaker 1: that's where I realized that, like, this is what I
Speaker 1: love to do. Like at first, it was just like
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do it just to like get away,
Speaker 1: And what it turned it into is like me like
Speaker 1: finding like my love and like me finding like this
Speaker 1: is what want to do full time. Scott told his
Speaker 1: wife Nancy he wanted to do this. They knew their
Speaker 1: lives would change because he wouldn't have his marketing salary
Speaker 1: coming in, but she still supported him, like in my opinion,
Speaker 1: like that's love right there, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like she wanted to see me happy. Like we just
Speaker 1: like how to go live within our means. He put
Speaker 1: it in his notice at the hospital web producer job
Speaker 1: he had and started working full time in the butcher shop.
Speaker 1: All he wanted to do at first would learn the craft,
Speaker 1: and he was excited, but he immediately got thrown into
Speaker 1: the packing room, not cutting me at all, thinking to
Speaker 1: myself like, man, I quit my job and now all
Speaker 1: I'm doing this packing boxes and it sucked. But like
Speaker 1: at the same time, like I remember like stepping back
Speaker 1: and thinking to myself, well, I'm learning the business here,
Speaker 1: like if I just keep my eyes and years open,
Speaker 1: like I'm learning how this whole how product enters the
Speaker 1: building and leaves the building. It's where you realized that
Speaker 1: the craft of butchering is really just half of it.
Speaker 1: You can make like great charcuterie. But like if you
Speaker 1: don't know anything about the business, like you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: fault apart. Eventually he got to do every part of
Speaker 1: the business, including how to process an animal and cut meat.
Speaker 1: He says, more than anything, this job taught him the
Speaker 1: entire business, and it taught him how to work. Because
Speaker 1: they were busy. I always thought like, man, like there's
Speaker 1: massive demand for this. Like when I was there, I
Speaker 1: was like, he was like turning people away, Like he
Speaker 1: was booked out two years, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He really couldn't get people. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like, where are these people gonna go? Like where
Speaker 1: are they going? You know, where do they go? I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like they send their animals to auction and
Speaker 1: they go like across country or something, you know, Like
Speaker 1: they don't Once an animal goes to auction, they can
Speaker 1: go anywhere. So after two years in the shop, Scott
Speaker 1: could finally call himself a butcher. I learned how to
Speaker 1: make sausage and charcuterie. But what I really learned is
Speaker 1: like there's like a massive business opportunity. Right around this time,
Speaker 1: Nancy Broker leg And was out of a job. Scott
Speaker 1: wasn't making much money in the butcher shop, so he
Speaker 1: left to get another job in marketing to pay the
Speaker 1: bills for the time being. It was kind of tough,
Speaker 1: but I was always like, Okay, I'm gonna come back
Speaker 1: to this back home. He used his skills in the
Speaker 1: off time to make kill BOSSI for family and friends,
Speaker 1: and he was making enough where he was doing custom
Speaker 1: orders deliveries huge batches, and then I ended up creating
Speaker 1: a can LLLC because I was like, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make good money doing it. Scott finally felt that he
Speaker 1: wasn't a entrepreneur anymore. He still wanted to start a business,
Speaker 1: but now he knew what it took to do it,
Speaker 1: and he had the work ethic to make it happen.
Speaker 1: I got like a commercial kitchen set up, and I
Speaker 1: got inspected, and I was going through the process of
Speaker 1: just like doing like little little sales here and there,
Speaker 1: and I signed up for like a farmers market, and
Speaker 1: then COVID happened. The commercial kitchen he was in shutdown,
Speaker 1: so he started calling around to other butchers seeing if
Speaker 1: they'd help impack his products, and on one call one
Speaker 1: of his connections said, better yet, I know a guy
Speaker 1: who built a butcher shop and it's it's sitting empty
Speaker 1: right now. He's not using it, and that like I
Speaker 1: envisioned this entire thing in that phone call. The guy
Speaker 1: who built this kitchen was a farmer. Because there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of small butchers out there. Some farmers try
Speaker 1: to vertically integrate by doing all the processing themselves, but
Speaker 1: this is a huge undertaking, which is why this guy
Speaker 1: wasn't really using it. When I got up there, I
Speaker 1: was like, man, this is perfect, this is everything I
Speaker 1: need and and he wasn't using it. So he started
Speaker 1: running it to me and I started using it. Additionally,
Speaker 1: Scott offered to do the processing for this farmer, which
Speaker 1: was a good deal of work and he needed help.
Speaker 1: He called up his former boss, Mike, who was working
Speaker 1: in a kitchen somewhere at the time, and he was
Speaker 1: he was like on board. He came up that weekend,
Speaker 1: we talked it out. Are in the numbers, like this
Speaker 1: is a no brainer, Like I didn't have to build
Speaker 1: the building. I knew that there was other farms that
Speaker 1: are going to want processing. So in August, Mike and
Speaker 1: Scott officially started as Slate Belt Butchery. It was crazy
Speaker 1: because it was just like we had one customer and
Speaker 1: then like the next month, we got two customers. Third
Speaker 1: months we got three customers, and so on. I felt
Speaker 1: like every month we got the same amount of customers,
Speaker 1: but like additional, additional. Yeah, by three months and you
Speaker 1: had six customers. Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. From there, like
Speaker 1: it was just like a snowball. They picked up another
Speaker 1: big client in Philly. They hired a driver to pick
Speaker 1: up animals and do deliveries. On average, we were doing
Speaker 1: five ten animals a week, which was manageable for us,
Speaker 1: but pretty soon they were doing more. He hired his
Speaker 1: first new butcher and then another. I think one week
Speaker 1: we did over thirty animals. Um, we're up to forty
Speaker 1: customers right now, and in December I hired a full
Speaker 1: time packer. Within a year, you had forty customers and
Speaker 1: six or seven employees. There's five full time employees and
Speaker 1: we have like one part time employee. That is rapid grows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is crazy. I don't know. I feel like we're
Speaker 1: like growing out of the walls that we're currently in.
Speaker 1: He told me that something was in the works regarding
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't tell me what, but Slight Belt Butchery
Speaker 1: just keeps growing. Because there is so much demand for
Speaker 1: smaller processors like him. Someone just called me today. They're
Speaker 1: from Massachusetts and they need meat processing. They're having trouble
Speaker 1: up there to get meat processing. I'm like, you're gonna
Speaker 1: drive like five hours coming. He's like, He's like, be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I would because I can't find anyone
Speaker 1: that can do it for me up here. Bigger processing
Speaker 1: facilities dominate the market right now, and generational businesses like
Speaker 1: butchering have been on the decline. Scott does hope that
Speaker 1: his story does set an example for other people in
Speaker 1: this community who want to do something like this. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people willing to do this type of
Speaker 1: work because I don't know if they're not really being
Speaker 1: introduced to it. So if you could go back and
Speaker 1: introduce young Scott to butchering, um would you do it?
Speaker 1: Would I change that? Probably? Not? Like Like who knows,
Speaker 1: Like if someone pushed me to be a butcher when
Speaker 1: I was eighteen, like what I have turned away from it.
Speaker 1: Like I'm very proud of the fact that I'm a
Speaker 1: first generation butcher, Like it wasn't in my family. No
Speaker 1: one pushed me to be a butcher, Like I kind
Speaker 1: of found this on my own, whereas it's the opposite
Speaker 1: with like marketing, Like I feel like college was like
Speaker 1: pushed on me from a young age. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: glad that I was able to like go through that
Speaker 1: really low period and like I found what I was
Speaker 1: passionate about doing and I was able to come out
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know where I'd be if I
Speaker 1: never found this, but I don't want to think about that.
Speaker 1: You took a huge risk when you jump from your
Speaker 1: career to do this. How do you feel now? I'm
Speaker 1: very like just hopeful for the future. I visualize a
Speaker 1: lot about what is going to happen. Whereas like in
Speaker 1: the past, like when I was like really low, I
Speaker 1: didn't ever do that. Like I never like visualized, I
Speaker 1: never like I didn't I didn't get excited about things,
Speaker 1: and I always felt like it wasn't gonna turn out
Speaker 1: for me. Scott never really believed he could get out
Speaker 1: of marketing. He did once he became a butcher. He
Speaker 1: didn't really think he could start his own shop. He did,
Speaker 1: and even then he still never thought that it would
Speaker 1: be his career and that he'd have employees and be
Speaker 1: working around the clock doing something he loved, like we
Speaker 1: did all that. I did all that, and like I
Speaker 1: don't like sit there like in sulk. Really, I used
Speaker 1: to brood a lot. I think I've done the least
Speaker 1: amount of that in the last year. The Great resignation,
Speaker 1: so it's called the last couple of years, has been
Speaker 1: happening for a lot of reasons, but at its core,
Speaker 1: it feels like the philosophy of how we work in
Speaker 1: our daily lives has shifted. A lot of people went
Speaker 1: into careers before because that was the path laid out
Speaker 1: for them. It was something clear and certain, But faced
Speaker 1: with the uncertainty of COVID and the lives realistically lost
Speaker 1: to it, we're reevaluating. Before maybe it always felt like
Speaker 1: we had time and certainty on our sides, so why
Speaker 1: risk big changes because it will work out eventually. But
Speaker 1: now without those certainties, and it feels like anything could
Speaker 1: happen at any time. It just feels like, how could
Speaker 1: you not make a change if it has the chance
Speaker 1: of making you happy? Because I don't want to sound
Speaker 1: like cliche or whatever, like because you said kind of
Speaker 1: positive like outlook, you gotta think like man, like I'm
Speaker 1: capable of doing anything or taking this business as far
Speaker 1: as I want Now now it's like I feel like
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit for On the job, I'm a
Speaker 1: discray