People join the trades for many reasons, family business, a desire for little to no school debt, etc. For Dan Cox, CEO and founder of AHS Plumbing, it was a beautiful girl.
Cox was working as a janitor at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, when he met his future wife. Her dad was a plumber, and asked him if he wanted to give the trade a shot. He ended up liking plumbing, but knew he didn’t want to keep working for his father-in-law.