Q. What is the highlight of your career?
A. The highlight of my career is our father telling us as teenagers (I have two younger brothers) we could go do what we wanted in life and could always fall back if needed at the family business.  This allowed me to do other things to see if being involved with the family business was something I really wanted to do in life.  I was able to have a wonderful career living in Florida for almost 30 years, but I knew it was the right thing to do moving back in May of 2020.

Q. What are challenges you encounter in your career?
A. The challengers in my career can be numerous working with family!  You are called out on everything.  Other challenges having been away for almost 30 years are: 1) living in a small town environment again and not the city, 2) What we are dealing with today’s world with the Covid pandemic, 3) Finding people that actually want to work, 4) Supply issues due to Covid, 5) Inflation and having to raise prices on our products we sell, 6) Keeping the Western tradition that my grandfather started back in 1961 as things have changed but there is still the old school cowboy way.

Q. How did you get to this career?
A. Born into it and it is basically a requirement!!! 

Q. Are there scholarship or internship opportunities available with your career? If so, where can more information about those be found?
A. No scholarships yet we do provide rodeo teams at the high school and college level money donations to help athletes at their careers as they do use our equipment we sell in the store.  As for internship opportunities, we have done this in the past for people that want to learn a craft such as working on the leather side.  There have been great saddlemakers that apprenticed under my grandfather as he had to do to become the saddlemaker he was.