He took the long way around, but eventually Keith Jordan found the septic industry.
The U.S. Army veteran and owner of Dirty Deeds Septic in Oak Harbor, Washington, came to own a septic business after quite the journey. A few months out of high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army for nine years until 2000, and followed that with three years as a trooper with the Washington State Patrol.Switching gears in 2003, he started a construction company that faltered during the financial crisis of 2008. But a simultaneous run-in with a drug-resistant staph infection threatened his life. “I didn’t feel















