I'm a winner!!!

[E-Revonut]

Well I'll start this by saying I'm DRUNK so any typos or anything else, blame it on the captain!!! I'm a member of Local #58 sheet metal union out of Syracuse, NY. The first week of the year they told me they where sending me to the competition. I thought this was a state competition for apprentices, when I got here I found out it was regional, as in the whole north east(region 1). Just coming here puts me in the top 3000 or so apprentices in the region. There are a few different categories of sheetmetal such as HVAC, TAB, Architectural, Industrial, and service. I came as an HVAC student. I wound up finishing 5th. There where 12 students and I was the newest to the trade. My goal was to finish in the top 50% and I succeeded. As all the people on the region one comittee, all the proctors, judges, and my local guys said i was a winner just for making it to the competition. I was the first guy sent in about 6 years from my local, first guy they thought stood a chance! I only have 2 years 5 months into the trade, before that I never touched a piece of sheet metal! Now I can take a flat piece of metal, fabricate it into a piece of duct work and install it, and I'm one of the top apprentices inb the country! Any how I'm just drunk and excited and wanted to share this with my extended family of RC-M.

P.S. Free trip to Albany, free hotel, free food, and free drinks the whole time I've been here! Spent $20 so far on a shirt at LL Bean and tipping thebartender at an open bar! Well worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: party: