Q: Describe the path that brought you to the landscaping industry?
A: Just the love of the outdoors. I love working outdoors and being in nature. And then, you know, being able to see the beginning of a project and the final product is just awesome, amazing.

Q: What brought you to Outerland?
A: Seeing everyone so invested in the company and the care for the employees at every level of the company. A lot of thought has been put into every little aspect of what is Outerland.

Q: What do you tell your friends you do for work?
A: Landscape construction. Specifically landscape construction management.

Q: What is your favorite part of the job?
A: Like I said, just being able to hear the thoughts of a customer or what they picture for the project and then seeing the actual completed final project come to life.

Q: What do you find most challenging about your job?
A: The client relationship

Q: What’s one thing people might not know or expect about your job?
A: The backend work that has to be put into it to be successful. Personnel management, contracting, estimating, and putting the jobs together.

Q: What skills or characteristics do you think your job requires?
A: An open mind. Hard work. Room for learning.

Q: What makes Outerland unique?
A: That it’s a service company. We’re not just pushing the landscape, landscape, landscape name. It’s more of a service company with a people focus.

Q: What do you like about working in the landscaping industry?

A: The fact that I’m outdoors, I love seeing these beautiful projects come to life. I love machinery and getting my hands dirty.

Q: What advice would you give someone who’s looking to get into our industry?

A: Be ready to work hard. It’s not always roses. There’s a lot of hard work that has to go into it. A lot of people look in from the outside and say ‘Oh, you know you’ve got this beautiful amazing yard.’ but usually don’t see that there’s a lot of work that goes into it.

Q: What makes you proud to work at Outerland?
A: Everyone cares so much, everyone is so invested in this. It’s nice to be surrounded by people that are just as invested as I am.