In the 1980s, Jack Coleman was a Teamster driver working for a concrete company. He enjoyed the work but had bigger goals and a few frustrations. “I was No. 27 on the seniority list and got tired of being the low man,” he says. “And I wanted to work for myself.”
He made it happen in 1989 when he started his own septic company, although it would be another seven years before he felt the business was financially stable enough and had sufficient assets to leave his union job. It was tough to get the business to that point, but he
