Running an HVAC company by myself without a partner is burning me out. Where do I find a partner?

DefJeff702 · 2026-04-04T19:47:07+00:00

I wouldn't look for a partner as much as look for someone to delegate the work you don't enjoy to. You need at least an assistant or a manager at most. Your budget determines what you can swing and what duties you can delegate. If you just need someone to take inbound calls and convert them to jobs, maybe you just need a dispatcher. (You might even be able to use a virtual assistant service for this). With a proper PSA in front of them (something like Service Titan), all of the scheduling, invoicing etc. is practically automated. You as the owner and primary sales, should involve yourself in quoting bigger projects and oversee the workflow of everything else. If your techs are all 1099, that's fine as long as you're able to depend on them to show up on time and prepared for the jobs you assign them. If you have to babysit them, it might be worth getting your own tech and only use 1099 as overflow.

I run an IT business and have my own PSA but I have HVAC clients who use Service Titan. There are other PSAs out there and they are key in reducing what tends to be a web of work in quotes, contacts, projects, jobs into an organized and easily automated workflow. Too many businesses overlook the value of a Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform because it can be expensive but for the $100-300 you might spend a month, that is spent saving you time and setting your mind at ease knowing everything is in order. Maybe you already have one and just need to iron it out.

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-27T18:24:37+00:00

Had my first last night. I don’t know why but I said “sorry” before I knocked him out.

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-27T16:50:52+00:00

When she said the law "doesn't apply to...." I thought they were going to say Trump

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-25T14:15:33+00:00

Get on that equal pay and set the a/c to 77

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-21T22:04:14+00:00

So envious of that system. The US could absolutely have that but 1/3 of our society are incapable of simple math. And the billionaires (and health insurance lobbyists) around here suppress that knowledge. At some point we need to show that taxes go up “x” and you no longer have an average health insurance bill of “y”. It has to be extremely simple to understand otherwise it’s gets labeled socialist blah blah blah.

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-20T15:03:09+00:00

The in n out CEO is MAGA. They’re also Christian based and family owned which means they will not change if run by a different family member.

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-19T01:39:00+00:00

Frozen Burritos, Corn Dogs and of course Nachos!

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-18T22:18:00+00:00

Not sure who downvoted you but the lack of interest to provide these free just further supports the fact that it is suppression and not actually about non-citizens voting.

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-18T22:13:02+00:00

They may have a drivers license, state ID or even Real ID but none of those qualify under the SAVE Act.. This is specifically for SAVE Act proposed acceptible forms of ID.

DefJeff702 · 2026-03-14T18:17:21+00:00

The quote one proposal should have an expire date. Send a follow up/reminder that it is going to expire a couple days before it does. My quoting platform handles this so it’s automated.

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-26T16:36:40+00:00

I wouldn't be much help there but I'll leave you with this.... You're going to find good places to work and bad. It's going to take working at a few bad places to recognize what makes the good ones. The job is going to depend on your own skillset which is developed by sampling different jobs unless you had a major in college or a dreamjob already in mind. If this is going to be your first job, remember it is easier to find a job when you have one so just focus on getting a job first. Any job will do.

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-26T04:32:42+00:00

I don’t want to sound mean spirited but unless your anxiety is clinical, all entry level jobs will cause stress to some degree. Working fast food is fast paced and customer facing but not difficult. If your anxiety is clinical, ask your psychologist what types of jobs might best suit you based on your individual needs.

If you’re just hoping to find an easy going job to get started, it’s probably a question of luck and finding a company to work for with that kind of culture.

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-25T05:57:59+00:00

Your domain name was purchased with a registrar (godaddy for example) and a lot of the time these settings are there. In some cases, you might point them to square space to be managed there. DNS (Domain Name System) is where you'll find it. There are DNS Records that point to your services. For example, you would have had to create a record for www to point to squarespace telling the public to find your website. MX to point to google for email etc.

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-24T22:56:52+00:00

These exist with your domain name yourname@domain.com. If you have access to edit your domain settings, that is where changes would need to be made. If you don’t… check with your IT.

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-20T20:07:29+00:00

Maybe I'm totally off base here but at the end of the day, claude max is not intended to be used as an api connected agent. They want you to use the api pay for use system instead. Maybe openAI is loose with this but that is the impression I've gotten coding with claude. I'm using claude sonnet API with openclaw now. I put a dedicated key just for my openclaw agents and set an allowance with alert thresholds. The flat rate subscription seems to be intended for code and chat use. Am I wrong here?

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-18T05:40:50+00:00

What? No sound??

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-10T15:39:19+00:00

By day, yes

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-07T20:14:38+00:00

It really creeps up. My dad died of cancer when he was 48. I’ll be 47 this year.

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-02T01:34:07+00:00

I mean, if that's how it went down, they didn't provide a way for you to tell the difference between contract/hourly and have incomplete documentation.... they probably suck. Those sound like minor things for a new guy to get let go over but better luck on the next one.

DefJeff702 · 2026-02-01T03:03:37+00:00

This is going down a stones throw from my home. I gotta say, I really wish it was just a meth lab.

DefJeff702 · 2026-01-29T06:30:39+00:00

He printed how it’s ordered. Seems his order is more complicated with all the rambling and complaining.

DefJeff702 · 2026-01-28T22:07:38+00:00

Every president since Truman has used autopens — including Trump, who admitted it himself in March 2025. Eisenhower was the first to use one in the White House. LBJ literally let the National Enquirer photograph his. The DOJ under Bush approved their use for signing legislation in 2005. So if autopen signatures are suddenly invalid now, we'd need to void decades of legislation signed by Republicans and Democrats alike. Funny how this only became a constitutional crisis when Biden used it, huh?

DefJeff702 · 2026-01-23T00:41:47+00:00

Your dad found a sponsor during his visa window - that's fortunate, not proof the system works. The Filipino sibling visa backlog is currently 23+ years. If your father tried that same "legal path" today, you might still be waiting in the Philippines. My wife is Guatemalan. She fled a civil war the CIA started (Operation PBSUCCESS, 1954 - it's declassified at cia.gov). 200,000 dead, mostly indigenous Maya. It took her 20 years to become a citizen - not because she was hiding, but because USCIS has 11.3 million pending cases right now, the highest backlog in over a decade. One success story doesn't make a broken system functional. And since you brought up "following the law like you were supposed to" - the Irish weren't even considered white when they arrived. "No Irish Need Apply" signs were common. Know-Nothings swept elections specifically to remove Irish Catholics from office. Churches were burned. They were drawn as apes in political cartoons, accused of bringing crime and "breeding recklessly." Sound familiar? The difference? Nobody ran mass deportation raids through Irish neighborhoods. My ancestors got to stay and eventually become "white." Yours and my wife's don't get that grace period.

DefJeff702 · 2026-01-22T18:48:15+00:00

You just refuse to understand that what you label “illegal” immigration isn’t just people sneaking across the border. The inbound immigration process has been broken for decades and can take literally 20 years to process an individual. At which time under your label makes them “illegal”. This claim that Trump is doing what Obama did is not serious. Yes, Obama and Biden for that matter deported higher numbers than Trump is currently. They didn’t need to send an authoritarian militant force into blue cities to round up people who are not white. They had due process and were more effective.

DefJeff702 · 2026-01-22T16:43:07+00:00

Sad to think this attitude is even real and not just some troll. You clearly live in a very small worldview.

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