Today we’d like to introduce you to David Wyrick.
Hi David, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
For years, I worked maintenance for the KU med Center and then after leaving that position in between jobs, looking for work when I went to interviews people kept asking if I knew how to do electrical work in my interviews nobody was willing to hire me because of that lack of that particular skill, I had all these other talents you know patch repairs drywall repair, painting, framing, so I took that as a sign that I needed to learn how to become an electrician, this happened like a dozen times.
So I applied to be an electrical helper
And within less than 15 minutes of applying for that, I got a call to go get an interview and so shortly after that, I became a electrical apprentice needless to say after learning and working for the last eight years, I finally decided to take the leap and go out on my own and start my own electrical company during this process. I met my business partner, Reno Kostynuk
a master electrician who learned his start in the Air Force electrician classes. I met him at one of my jobs that we working together on, we became friends and we both decided to start a company together so far it’s been the best decision I’ve ever made taking the risk, taking the lead to do things my own way.
I believe that God put me on this course and that this is what I was meant to do.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
There are plenty of times that will make you want to give up. You just have to keep going,the long hours. There’ll be times when you cut yourself, people that you have to deal with who just don’t understand your value of what you’re trying to accomplish people who tell you that will never happen. You’ll never be able to do that. Everybody will go against you when you start your own business until it starts working and then they’re like oh we knew you can do it.
The long hours of training to be qualified to even be able to do what we’re doing now it takes between 8000 to 10,000 hours to become qualified enough to run your own Electrical company.
Battling with people who undervalue your skills
When I train new apprentice electricians the first thing, I usually tell them is that we as electricians are fire, safety people we hold people’s lives in our hands if we don’t do our job properly, homes burn down, businesses close, and people could lose their lives if we don’t do the work in the proper way up to the national electrical code..
Without people like us there wouldn’t be lights , heating and cooling in your home air conditioners, fans, refrigeration for your food all that stuff runs on electricity.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about D.R. Electric Solutions LLC?
We are an electrical contractor.
We do residential services
We do commercial services
Anything and everything that deals with electricity we can handle.
We try to be fair with our customers
We try to educate our customers on what we were doing for them
You’ll never find people who care more about what they do.
We want to enhance everyone’s lives that we touch.
Networking and finding a mentor can have such a positive impact on one’s life and career. Any advice?
Be humble
Be willing to learn
Make connections
Make friends
If it scares, you do it
Finding a mentor that’s kind of a hard question to answer. Sometimes you just have to take the leap of faith on somebody that they’re really trying to help you.
All I can say is always put your best foot forward.
You’ll never truly fail if you put full effort in and never give up even when it’s hard and when you want to.
Find a person that has everything you want and learn from them.
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