Jonathan Harold – HVAC Technical Academy Completion Speech

“Six weeks isn’t a long time, but this place really makes it feel like it is. You learn a lot in six weeks.

When I came here, I didn’t know what a capacitor was. I didn’t know what an accumulator was. I didn’t even know what the compressor did in the system.

But here I am—standing here now—I know the refrigeration cycle backwards and forwards. I’m overwhelmingly confident. Maybe even a little too confident in what I know so far.

I’ve been unemployed for five months. I’ve been struggling to find work, putting in application after application every week, and getting nothing back—not even a phone call.

But now, with this under my belt, I feel like there’s finally a path forward.

So thank you—Robert, Andrew, Elaine, Chris, and of course, Danny. Thank you.”