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>> My name is Brent McDonald.

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I'm a management trainee
at Cintas Fire Protection.

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Basicall, what I do is, I'm in a
two-year training program with Cintas.

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First, I start out in a role of service,
basically servicing sprinkler systems,

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fire alarm panels, fire extinguishers
and fire alarms.

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Then I go into an office
role, crunching numbers,

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looking at spreadsheets, managing my own team.

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Then, I go into a year of
sales, learning to be driven,

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learning with good customer relations
and learning the sales process.

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A day in the life begins at 6:30 AM.

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First off, a little bit of office work.

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Get your paperwork together for the day to come.

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Get your POs in order.

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Then, you're out on the road.

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You're out on the road.

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You're with your fire service technicians,
getting a little more advanced knowledge,

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getting your hands dirty with all the
sprinkler systems and the fire alarm panels,

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learning the basic business, the
basic business processes of the day.

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We go and we do that until about 3:30.

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We get back, I get put to
work doing different projects.

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I am personally in charge of getting
our regional repair center more revenue.

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So, I've been working on that on a daily basis.

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And my day kind of ends around 5:30.

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End of the two-year program, I kind of choose
my own direction of where I want to go.

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I can choose to become a service
manager, if I enjoy service and, you know,

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being out in the field and
working with the techs.

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I can choose to be a sales manager, if I
really enjoy sales and customer relations.

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Or I can go into anything different.

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I can go into marketing and work for corporate,
or I can be an HR Manager for the region.

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It really is really what you're
interested in and what your skill sets are.

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Cintas gives you the training and the
ability to do well, wherever you want to go.