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Nationally focused trade school developing builders and leaders 🏗️

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👇 Join Us at the builders convention is a nationally focused trade education organization dedicated to developing the next generation of builders and leaders in the skilled trades. Through apprenticeship training, workforce development, leadership education, and industry partnerships, Energize Us EDU bridges the gap between hands-on skill, business knowledge, and long-term career growth. The BULD Association operates as the official builders network of Energize Us EDU, providing members with access to education, events, and community aligned with industry standards.

09/10/2026

I started a trade school because I was tired of watching kids enter the trade unprepared.
I'd been hiring apprentices for years.
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The good schools sent me students who knew the code.
The great schools sent me students who could also read a wiring diagram.
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But almost nobody sent me apprentices who could talk to a customer.
Or run a job or write a quote.
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That gap kept costing my business money.
It also kept costing young tradesmen their careers.
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They'd get hired.
They'd struggle with the business side.
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Eventually they'd quit.
And go work somewhere else.
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The trade lost a future tradesman.
The apprentice lost years they could have built on.
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I started the school to fix that pipeline.
Not because I wanted to own a school.
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I started it because nobody else was solving the problem.
The industry kept pretending it didn't exist.
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For 30 years we've told ourselves the same story.
That you can teach the trade entirely in a classroom.
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You can't.
You can teach part of it.
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The rest is learned by connecting the classroom, the job site, the business, and the customer.
Those four pieces have to work together.
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That's what we built.
And that's what's still missing from most trade schools today.

09/09/2026

Before you knock that tab out, take a look at what it’s doing.

I’m showing two nonmetallic boxes here: a single-gang with knockout-style entries and a two-gang with built-in cable clamps.

One gives the cable an opening. The other helps hold it in place. You need to recognize the difference before you start working with it.

This is why I like explaining these details during rough-in. You’ve got the box in your hand, you can see how it works, and the lesson sticks.

Check the actual box and its instructions. Gang count alone doesn’t tell you whether it has clamps.

Save this for your next rough-in.

What’s one small detail you wish someone had explained earlier in your apprenticeship?

09/09/2026

I've taken three different tool manufacturer reps on real job site visits in the last year. Every one of them said the same thing.
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"This isn't what we see in our marketing footage." The marketing footage shows clean job sites, smiling crews, and tools used in perfect lighting.
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The real job site is dust, noise, mistakes, callbacks, and tools getting used in conditions the engineering team never imagined. Here's the gap manufacturers don't see.
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The crew on the ground figures out workarounds for every tool that doesn't quite work right. They modify grips.
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They tape over sensors. They use the wrong attachment because the right one breaks too often.
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They've stopped reporting it because nobody at the manufacturer listens. The manufacturers who win the next decade are the ones who put their engineers on actual job sites for a week.
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Not for a photo op. For a real install.
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Watch the crew use the tool wrong because the tool didn't account for the real-world condition. Then go back to the lab and fix it.
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The job site is the laboratory. The crew is the R&D department.
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The manufacturers who treat them that way win. The ones who don't get replaced by the ones who do.

09/09/2026

Before you pick up a drill, can you look at the print and explain what goes in this bedroom?

Where are the outlets? Where’s the switch? What light does it control?

That’s what we’re walking through here—taking the symbols on paper and connecting them to the room we’re standing in.

When I’m teaching this, I want you to understand how to figure out what comes next. Read the legend, check the notes, and understand the layout before you start putting up boxes.

Miss something on the print and you can end up moving boxes, pulling wire twice, or opening a finished wall.

Blueprint reading helps you catch those details while they’re still lines on paper.

Save this for your next rough-in.

Did someone teach you to read prints, or did you have to figure it out on the job?

09/09/2026

I've been to 14 construction industry conferences in the last three years. Every one of them used the same speaker list.
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The same 30 names. The same 30 keynotes.
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The same 30 voices telling the same 30 stories. Most of them are excellent speakers.
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Most of them are also 55 to 70 years old. Most of them are talking about the industry the way it worked in 1995.
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The 25-year-old electrician sitting in the audience can't relate. He's not coming back next year.
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That's how you lose an audience. Not by being wrong.
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By being repetitive. The conferences that grow are the ones putting young contractors, new media voices, and the people building the next version of the trade on stage.
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That's what the audience under 40 actually wants to see. The old guard isn't bad.
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The old guard is incomplete. You can keep them on stage.
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But you have to add the next generation alongside them. Otherwise, the room gets older every year until it disappears.
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The industry isn't dying. The conferences that refuse to evolve are.
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There's a difference.

09/09/2026

Save this before your next electrical rough-in.

You’ve heard the 6-foot rule. Understanding where the 12 feet comes from makes laying out your outlets a whole lot easier.

In rooms like bedrooms and living rooms, every point along qualifying wall space needs a receptacle within 6 feet, measured horizontally along the floor line.

That allows up to 12 feet between receptacles on a continuous qualifying wall space—6 feet of coverage from each direction.

The purpose is keeping power within reach and reducing the need for extension cords once somebody moves in.

That’s what I want apprentices to understand when we’re laying out boxes. The measurement matters. So does knowing why it exists.

How was this explained to you on your first rough-in?

09/09/2026

There's a wave of new content creators in the trades right now. That's mostly a good thing.
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The trade needed voices. The trade got voices.
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But there's a difference between a leader and an influencer. An influencer builds an audience.
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A leader builds an industry. An influencer monetizes attention.
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A leader monetizes outcomes. An influencer takes the brand deal.
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A leader rejects the brand deal that compromises the message. The trade doesn't need more guys posting their tools and getting sent more tools.
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The trade needs people willing to use the audience they built to actually move the industry forward. That looks like training programs.
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Apprenticeship initiatives. Public advocacy.
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Speaking on stages where decisions get made. Building schools.
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Building businesses that hire and train the next generation. The influencer model is fine.
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It's just not enough. The trade is too important to be represented only by the loudest voices.
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It needs the most thoughtful voices on stages, in rooms, and in front of cameras. The next 10 years separates the influencers from the leaders.
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Pick which one you're building toward.

09/09/2026

Hiring for your office should scare you a little if all you look at is "years of experience."

That VA who "knows Jobber and has 5 years with an electrical company" might also bring 5 years of bad habits, weak notes, and skipped checklists.

For home service office roles, experience is a bonus. Coachability is non negotiable.

In the live interview, listen for: curiosity, clear communication, and openness to your way of doing things. That is how you protect your processes and your culture. âś…

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09/09/2026

Save this for your next electrical rough install:

Boxes with internal clamps get the 12-inch staple rule
Boxes without clamps must be stapled within 8 inches
Plastic box with a knockout is NOT a clamp

This is one of the small details that can fail a rough inspection.

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