This week we sat down with someone we met right here on LinkedIn — an engineer from California who spends his weekdays behind a desk and his weekends running excavation jobs.

He’s not just talking about starting a business someday — he’s doing it on the side, building his reputation one job at a time.

We talk about balancing a full-time career with chasing something bigger, when to finally make the leap, and what it actually takes to start from scratch.

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