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Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 29, 2019, 07:03:18 pm
Thanks Steven very proud indeed, they have given some interviews this week and are still in the glow of their win last Friday.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Griffin on August 29, 2019, 11:25:42 am
That is a really uplifting post Jim.  It is never easy running your own business.  Yours Sons and their family's have managed it well.

Hats off to a proud Dad.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 25, 2019, 06:44:24 pm
You've done well with those two Jim! We need more like them

Appreciate the comment Nick, thank you :)
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 25, 2019, 06:43:52 pm
Jim, this a wonderful and uplifting post in so many ways. A great accomplishment you and your wife have made with your "boys".

Thank you very much Scott, much appreciated.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Nick on August 25, 2019, 09:02:31 am
You've done well with those two Jim! We need more like them
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: oilfield_steam on August 25, 2019, 07:49:18 am
Jim, this a wonderful and uplifting post in so many ways. A great accomplishment you and your wife have made with your "boys".
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 25, 2019, 07:23:50 am
Wow Jim, that is pretty awesome...any dad would be busting his buttons over such an accomplishment.  Must be a great feeling to see such young men BOTH succeed at such a young age...good parenting for sure!!!

Rog

Thanks Rog really appreciated. They both get on so well together and have built the business up from scratch. They also only live a couple of hundred metres away from each other.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: IndianaRog on August 25, 2019, 06:44:19 am
Wow Jim, that is pretty awesome...any dad would be busting his buttons over such an accomplishment.  Must be a great feeling to see such young men BOTH succeed at such a young age...good parenting for sure!!!

Rog
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 25, 2019, 05:51:00 am
Congratulations Jim to yourself and all your family, it shows hard work and a passion to be successful in a very hard and competitive world has rewards.
Your wife and yourself must be so proud, I wish them all the best for the future.
Regards
Gary

Thanks Gary very much appreciated and they do work very hard.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 25, 2019, 05:49:48 am
I think it's wonderful that your sons have pulled together to excel in business, Jim, and I'm sure you're busting at the seams with pride and justly so - a great accomplishment now with a rosy future ahead. Well done indeed!

Thank you Larry, yes my wife and I very proud of them and their wives. Thanks again.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: creepy on August 25, 2019, 04:50:20 am
Congratulations Jim to yourself and all your family, it shows hard work and a passion to be successful in a very hard and competitive world has rewards.
Your wife and yourself must be so proud, I wish them all the best for the future.
Regards
Gary 
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: jkbixby on August 25, 2019, 04:38:51 am
I think it's wonderful that your sons have pulled together to excel in business, Jim, and I'm sure you're busting at the seams with pride and justly so - a great accomplishment now with a rosy future ahead. Well done indeed!
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 25, 2019, 04:20:40 am
A great achievement for your sons at a relatively young age.

Congratulations Jim to you and your family!

Thanks Charlie, much appreciated :)
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: txlabman on August 25, 2019, 03:05:54 am
A great achievement for your sons at a relatively young age.

Congratulations Jim to you and your family!
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 24, 2019, 10:23:38 pm
Every reason to be the Proud Dad, as they obviously have taken their endeavour to the top, and done so at such a young age. Clearly somewhere along the line they got the right kinds of inspiration!!!

Thanks Daniel, really blessed to have such a wonderful family and what a great night it was for the boys and such an achievement.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 24, 2019, 10:22:38 pm
I'm so very happy for you & your family Jim, what a proud night that must have been, the buttons would have been popping of me vest.
CONGRATULATIONS !

Thanks very much Bruce, a very happy and proud moment that's for sure.
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: Stoker on August 24, 2019, 10:03:14 pm
Every reason to be the Proud Dad, as they obviously have taken their endeavour to the top, and done so at such a young age. Clearly somewhere along the line they got the right kinds of inspiration!!!
Title: Re: Proud Dad
Post by: St Paul Steam on August 24, 2019, 09:40:34 pm
I'm so very happy for you & your family Jim, what a proud night that must have been, the buttons would have been popping off me vest.
CONGRATULATIONS !
Title: Proud Dad
Post by: Jim on August 24, 2019, 08:38:40 pm
Excuse me guys for having this very proud Dad moment :)

My two sons started together and have built from the ground up a very successful plumbing company that is ever expanding, Jamie is only 32 and Tom is 28.

Here's a recent publicity photo taken of their company -

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48616963497_5c31064f97_b.jpg)

On Friday night there was the Shoalhaven Business Awards night and the family got dressed to the nines to attend the function. Here's some photos of my beautiful wife, two son's and two beautiful daughter in laws -

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48614220843_af36db2ab7_b.jpg)



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48614574376_d8e73f73df_b.jpg)



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48614721807_e70acd52ba_b.jpg)


I'm happy and very proud to say that the boys company was successful on the night and took out first place in Excellence in Small Business, here's a video clip of them hearing that they won and them and all their team walking up on stage to accept the award and my youngest son Tom making an acceptance speech -

https://youtu.be/oLV01hFw3as