Greg Carroll:  

Updated 5/14/2021 "What a long, strange trip it has been." My first year at Clark in the 10th grade was freedom I had never known. Like some, I ran with it. I was not the best example of a good student. In the 12th grade, I had to make up 7 credits to graduate. Six classes a day. Extra credits were earned by being a student aid at two elementary schools and a host of other extra credit work. While many had three or four classes in their senior year. It seems I always had to take the road less traveled. Lol. Really it was me being irresponsible, fighting authority, and thought I knew it all. Once I graduated and entered the real world, it was a wake-up call. For all of us. The open campus for me was a license to ditch, party, and be irresponsible. Looking back, I am one of the lucky ones because the lifestyle I chose was self-destructive even though it was fun until it wasn't. After graduating, I married my high school sweetheart, Christina, that lasted three years, and we divorced. Though a year after our divorce, we reconciled for a while. When I was 27, I stopped all partying and got serious about life. I then met my wife Joy, we got married on 9/9/1989 and we had two beautiful daughters, Chelsea (29 years old) and Tori (25 years old). We celebrate 31 years of marriage this month. I love parenthood and miss the years of raising kids. It was the best time of my life. I went to work for Hilton New Projects in 1988, which introduced me to the FF&E (Furniture, Fixtures&Equipment) portion of construction and renovation. Layoffs happened, and I went to work for a subcontractor who believed in me and taught me all facets of the industry. The company, Quality Transportation Services, is where I learned the business and contracting side of an FF&E(Furniture, Fixtires&Equipment) service company from a business mentor I still talk with regularly after 32 years. I was Project Director with a great team on the Luxor Pyramid in 1993. That put my professional career on the map after a successful opening. I started my first company, Choice Installation in 1994. I sold my first company in 1998 to a national company after securing the FF&E contract on the Paris project in 1998. I was Project Director supervising 120 union carpenters and their Foremen working for us on the Paris project I enjoyed my work, loved team building and leadership. I loved the challenge of new construction FF&E work. Our/my work is in 75% of the hotels in Las Vegas. The hotels do soft renovations every 4 years, the change out the furniture, the carpet, drapes, and wallcovering. I handled the furniture. In ...Expand for more