We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dennis Steve. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dennis below.
Dennis, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
Heart break. I kind of always had a little nagging feeling of knowing that I wanted to be great, but it never fully developed into what it is now until I got my heart broken. I feel that if i would of stayed with that individual i would of settled to a normal life without chasing my dreams. I would of been in a place where i was happy with the person i was planning on spending my life with and be happy with the little we would of built because i would of just stayed at working a job, buying a house having kids and just being average.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
My name is Steve Dennis Grew up most of my life in San Diego, I started electrical because of my dad, I never knew what path I was going to take career wise because I was a troubled kid, I was bad. I started electrical when I was 20 and to me it was just a job to pay my bills and never looked at it like a career or something bigger. As time went on, working with my father doing things that not many people will do at my age I started falling in love with what I was doing, I was building power distribution stations, working long shifts some of 17 hours, 24 hours and the longest was 36 hours straight no sleep just pumped on adrenaline. Some of these projects where power was critically needed to be turned on again, we could not stop until the project was complete. As the years went on my father planted a seed in my head about opening up my own electrical company, which I never really paid no mind too until my heartbreak is when I really started thinking bigger and decided to go for it. In 2018 I applied for my C-10 which is my electrical contractors license and I got it, it took a lot to get to that point, which was 5 years in an accredited apprenticeship program, 8 years of on-the-job training, a lot of code reading, which I got my general electrician license in the state of California and my master electrician license in the state of Nevada. I think the most exciting aspect of my trade is that electrical is evolving like none other compared to any other trade, the world runs on electricity and without it many wouldn’t be able to cook, browse the internet, won’t have lights, hot water, drive, especially now with everything being electric. There are so many different avenues in electrical not just wiring houses, but power distribution, building houses, powering grids, Smart houses, automation. renewable energy, high voltage, medium voltage, low voltage. The diversity in electrical is immense because it also gets into communication in a way, there’s so much to learn that to me it’s exciting and hard because I want to know it but there’s so much. I like to think of myself as a perfectionist, my work is my art and as far as the construction industry goes you don’t think of it that way, and many contractors don’t view it that way either. I like to make my work look good even though its behinds drywall, in attics under houses or closed inside electrical boxes I like to make sure that all out work looks like art, to where someone can look at the work we do and they immediately say, they love what they do, they take pride in what they do.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
1. The mentality of thinking ” I dont know how im going to do it but im going to figure it out” 2. Be resourceful – Try to help others out as much as possible this will set you up for success
3. communication – Learn how to talk to anyone and everyone even in akward situations learn how to sale, go talk to random strangers ask them questions and also share your thoughts or feelings, i cannot tell you enough how far good communications skills will take you,
To close, maybe we can chat about your parents and what they did that was particularly impactful for you?
My mother one of the most important things she taught me was how to be clean and organized and how to be good with money. The clean and organized helped me cause many people appreciate a person that cleans up after themselves or always maintains a clean area. Also, the reason why my work stands out from most as I like things to look organized and clean.
The money part has helped me save money properly for reinvesting in myself and my company helping it grown and be prepared for bigger opportunities and if I didn’t learn that from her, I would have just spent all my money.
My father,
Big dreams, my father taught me how to have big dreams and he is one of the biggest reasons I am where I am now because of him even though to me some of my ideas seem crazy I have the belief that I can go out there and achieve the.
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