I once lived with a dude who made a career out of being a panhandler.
I respected that man.
He then used that $10k to get himself an apartment in Silver Lake.
But he still had to keep making money.
So every weekend, he would pack up his backpack and tent.
Somewhere like San Fernando.
He’d sit there with a sign asking for money from Friday-Sunday, then come home Sunday night.
This dude knew what the fuck he was doing.
That’s why I scoff at any homeless person who I see just standing still on the corner.
You gotta walk the cars my man.
That’s how you get yourself off the streets.
Ok that’s probably not the best example.
That dude was kinda just lying to people to get their money.
Although he neverreallylied to anyone.
He had a single cardboard sign with a smiley face on it.
He said that was his best performing sign.
Anyways, he was fucking good at what he did, and made himself a life out of it.
Plus, I just wanted to tell that story again because I think about that guy all the time.
He was a funny stand up comic too.
He sublet me a room for $600/month, which was a crazy good deal.
And he always tried to get me to panhandle, because he knew I was broke as shit.
He told me I had the perfect face for it.
I could never bring myself to do it though.
Sorry for the completely irrelevant story.
I didn’t mean to group in Tommy Devito’s dad’s legitimate plumbing business with a panhandling semi-scammer.
They’re not the same.
Tommy Devito’s dad makes a more honest living.
But I love how much pride he takes in his plumbing business.
The third-generation New Jersey plumber has been in the business for 35 years.
His Montclair-based firm DeVito Plumbing & Heating has seven employees.
Im probably the fastest boiler installer youve ever seen.
I paint my boilers, I take pride in my boilers and Im just a boiler specialist.
Fastest boiler installer this world has ever seen.
Takes most plumbers a whole day to install a boiler.
But not Tom Devito.
The man is lightning on the pipes.
Take one look at him and that’s abundantly clear.
Its all about speed.
Because youre billing on time.
Anybody can do the job.
But how long does it take you to do it?
And do it neatly and professionally.
If it takes you eight hours to do something that I can do in two hours thats not good.
I’m willing to bet a lot of plumbers out there have the opposite strategy.
Taking their sweet ass time because they’re billing by the hour.
But Tom cares far more about quality service than he does making a quick buck.
You love to see good things happen to good hard working families.
Then he’ll knock out a full days worth of plumbing in 2 hours.
