Jamison Vandenberg

manufacturers.

And I've just had a meeting with Planar to say, hey, if there's any training for how to install these direct view LEDs, can I and a student join for these trainings that integrators are getting?

Because that's what we need to do.

Yeah, there's a lot of my students end up just going right into AV right out of college.

So a lot of them, you know, they join me for all my vendor meetings.

They'll join me for the scope of work.

They'll join me for a lot of it.

They get to meet, you know,

all the big names in the industry, I'm not going to name them all out, but like all the really big names in the industry, they even get to meet, you know, my reps for like Q-SYS or Extron so that they can actually like kind of see what they do so they can see the manufacturer side of it.

So I would say like recently I've had two Michaels graduate.

One of the Michaels went into more accounting because that was his major, but he understood how to budget for an AV system.

He understood how a school budgets as a student, which is insane to think about.

And now he's making a lot more money than I am.

But it's one of those things.

My other student, Michael, he's working over at a local company called Camera Corner.

And he's an AV programmer over there now.

And then I have two other students that graduated.

One of them said, I like AV, but I like the electrical side of it.

You know, he ended up going into the electrician side.

My other student, Deasia, she decided to go more into producing her own music and decided to kind of make her own beats and do a whole bunch of stuff.