Taking the sun and a heat pump over the cold and a gas furnace

When I think back on making the decision to move to the south, I wondered a bit at just how close I came to not doing it.

Having been raised and lived all of my life way up north, the south was sort of a secret passion. I tried really hard to go to college in the air conditioning of the south. But my parents weren’t about to pay out of state tuition. So it was off to a state school and a dorm room with lots of radiant heating. Still, I longed for a winter where I didn’t have to deal with the snow, the ice and the six months of cold. I longed for the HVAC cooling of the southern regions. After college, I started working in my field and stayed near home for the next ten years. When the job listing came out for a spot in our southern offices, I put my name in on a whim. I was shocked to get an interview. And I was even more stunned that I was offered the position. They gave me a few days to consider it and that’s what I did. I almost talked myself out of moving down here and taking that job. But I got over myself and realized that I had the confidence, knowledge and leadership skills to do that job. That’s been nearly a dozen years ago and that job was a springboard to the zone controlled HVAC of the office I occupy now. I don’t regret for a minute trading a gas furnace winter for a heat pump summer either.
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