Gabe Joseph
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319 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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there's a tendency to pick friends and relatives and things like that and we've certainly got a few of those I mean my brother's one of the parties uh and I didn't draft Thomas for the record Thomas drafted me as the is the origin story now he started waiting me on so you were in DC weren't you I was in DC yeah yep it was in Washington Seoul was going out in Austin and moved out a month later uh so it was just that strong of a market at that time but you know I think
in evaluating people, you're looking at a skillset, you're looking at personality matches, you're looking at experience, but you're really looking for sort of core attributes more than anything else.
Like, yeah, they have to have experience doing whatever that is, but you really have to look at, all right, is this person a grinder?
Is this person lazy?
Is this person going to put in, you know, is this a whatever it takes person, which is what I'm always going to gravitate toward?
Or is this a do as little as possible and hide from the, you know, hide from the job kind of thing?
And the sort of why of what they're doing is a lot more important in a lot of cases.
I've had people that were curious, hungry, wanted to figure it out, wanted to get better, wanted to learn the job, but didn't have a lot of experience who turned out to be great.
And I've had people had a lot of experience that turned out to be terrible because once they saw the expectations and the workload, it just spooks.
So on paper, they were fantastic.
But reality is paper tigers.
know what i was like how do you do it well one one thing that's always worked is ask people about work-life balance and tell them to express it as a percentage most people will reflexively tell you the truth um and it's usually going to be a lower number than you want to hear um but uh that i if i were to go back and graph it i'll bet you that question has been answered honestly 90 of the time over the last several years
And the right answer, boys and girls, anybody that says less than 70 is probably not going to do the job you want them to do.
So, you know, and it's and it goes up from there.
But yeah, that's a really good litmus test for how somebody how hard somebody wants to wants to push on something.
Probably no business works that way, but what you find construction more than anything.
And I love this about the business is that you, you get,
you do get a lot of people that are just, you know, doing a job and this and that, but most people that you meet that are in it are really in it.
Like they wouldn't do anything else or they couldn't, you know, we're a bunch of goons that are virtually unemployable in any other line of work, um, but they can take it and they can handle the heat and the weather and the unpredictability and the variables and all the things that go with this, this business that it's kind of hard not to get into that, right.
It's kind of hard not to, not to find that interesting.
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