Just got an EXTREMELY tempting job offer.

I just got a job offer from my Wife's Mother's Boyfriend. He owns a major contracting company in North Carolina but he's 63 and he doesn't want to do it until he dies. He's offered to take me on as his future replacement and he wants to salary me well into the six figures my first year. He wants me to take over as the owner when he retires around 70. A part of me thinks "Great!, I'll be making seven figures by the time I'm 32," but I don't know if I'd be competent enough to do it. I don't want to ruin it or something. He's one of my best friends and I don't want to let him down like that. I suppose 8 years of training would show me everything I would ever need to know. To make the offer even more tempting though, I will get a 2015 Diesel Crewcab Chevrolet 2500 LTZ with the Z71 Offroad package and a long bed.

Do not ever dismiss an opportunity to increase your education. In this case what do you have to loose?

No long post from me...just some wise words, that aren't mine.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.- Bill Cosby

If you can't tell, I say go for it. An good luck to ya Steel! Let us know what you decide an how it goes for you if you decide to go all in. It seems to me he has confidence in you, so you should have it in yourself.

Sirscrapalot - Failure is not an option. - Not me.

I think it's a great opportunity but it won't be easy. Just make sure you learn not only the trade, but the business/financial side of it. If you're going to take over the business eventually, you have to learn how to know if it is working financially.

If you have concerns, go ahead and talk them out with him even if it's your doubts about your ability to take the reins. If he believes in you, he won't have any problem with answering the tough questions. Good luck, show us pics of the truck.

Originally Posted by olddude

4. Is there something about him you should know and don't.?

If the answer to the above questions are positive then, it's a no brainer.

this question seems flawed...

think it over
and then speak to him- face to face- not over the phone etc

iron out whatever concerns/fears u may have
ask him what made him choose you for this job.
see what he says

maybe he sees something in you that u dont realise

opportunities like this are rare
most of us never get it

I would say ....reason it through.

You usually spend your first five years in the construction trade as apprentice doing unskilled work. Years 5 - 15 are spent working as a journeyman where you are doing semi skilled & highly skilled work. After fifteen to twenty years in you become a master and take on the responsibilities of running a crew or business. It doesn't make sense from this perspective. Seven or eight years to gain mastery level skill in the trade wouldn't be enough time.

On the bigger jobs there's something called a project manager. That's an administrative job that involves crunching numbers, paperwork and acting as a go-between. You deal with the job foreman,customers, architects,suppliers,engineers, etc. If you're good at working with people and have accounting skills you might possibly be able to run the business in seven years. You don't need any hands on skills as long as you hire the right people.

Ummm .... a hundred grand a year and a company truck is quite a bit for a guy just starting out. It would be out of character for an older gent that built a large construction business to be that generous. There might be more to the story.

If you don't want it can I?

Ask to try it out, don't commit upfront. At the least you could walk away with some skills / knowledge you learned. Good luck