Aaron Jordan, Black Water Environmental, shares an update from Wyoming’s energy scene. Jordan explains how they have had to diversify themselves during the COVID-19 Shutdown.
The interview dives into the balancing act of adding new services while losing employees and how to make two dollars work like five. Behaviors and actions of ingenuity and general scrappiness are discussed as personality traits that are surviving the coronavirus epidemic.
Jordan opines on the context of “hope”. Host Jason Spiess pontificates if whether there will be a major issue when the all the “hope” talk clashes with the “herd mentality” industry has been famously known for. Jordan says the word “hope” isn’t allowed in his office anymore due to public change in context.
“Hope should never be used in an industrial sense. Ever. You don’t hope you are going to be safe. You don’t hope you have the right equipment, you don’t hope you brought enough materials,” Jordan said. “You prepare, you strategize, then you show up prepared. Hope is not a tactic or place. Hope is not something you base your business off of.”
Sandblasting, municipality work, small business issues and the speed of the marketplace are also discussed in the interview.
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