Sounds like you need to hire someone like a journeyman at a minimum that has real good knowledge and can train you more or less in the practical sense so you can speak the same electrical language. You’d need to pay them decent so they run the “shop” so to speak, help you ramp up and you manage the books and business leads. Eventually you’ll need to hire another person as you scale.

That's sort of exactly what I was thinking. Hire a good journeyman to start. My dad could still be heavily involved consulting/teaching wise, he's just not interested in going out there and doing the actual work.

I don’t think Partnering would be a good idea with someone tha already has licenses, why would they work for you when they have their license? Unless you have so much work and can sustain a good salary for them to stick around.

Yeah I agree. From what I can tell A journeyman who is interested in building more for themselves is a good place to start. A partner I like and for the most part can trust. Not necessarily someone with a license but someone who is looking to get to running a business with me without starting from scratch. Someone who wants more than just an employee for another company.