Summary Of An Interview With The United Framing Company

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On October 26, 2016, I contacted Mr. Tracy McCoy the Vice President and lead estimator for the United Framing Company in Blacksburg, Virginia (VA). To complete the interview process, we talked on the telephone for approximately one hour. Coming out of college, Mr. McCoy had an undergraduate degree in Recreation and Leisure from Radford University. He wanted to into the athletic field. It was either between a director of recreation or a director of athletics. But at the end of the day he ended up going into neither. It is crazy how different career paths come about along the way. The first year into college he worked a summer gig in his wife 's family owned construction company. He enjoyed it so much he started working there every summer. After he graduated college he realized there was lots of jobs in his field but none were making enough money in recreation. He started working in construction for three to four years and worked his way up the chain to where he is today.
The construction field is very different from the recreation field. Mr. McCoy did not start out working for the United Framing Company. He started working for another construction company that worked for/with the company he is currently at. Before that even happened he started out at the Timber Trust Housing System right here in good ole Salem. He worked there for about five
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Cellphone helps a lot with this as well. Math you need to know how to be able to do fractions, formulas and excel. Specifically to his job he needs to also know how to estimate and put bills together. The world is getting more and more technology savvy Mr. McCoy states "construction is going this way every moment of every day." Technology helps with day to day activities. The bigger companies are starting to have more technology because the of the continuous growing of better

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