No landscaping experience? No problem. Tina Czysz would love to see you. Sure, there are manual labor jobs that require no experience. But there are some qualities you should have to succeed at a landscaping job. Czysz, director of human resources / safety...
Chris Moore grew up learning how to do things. “How to fix the car, how to mow the grass, how to use a weed eater and chainsaw,” he says. “Anything my dad knew how to do, I learned it. Back then, if you wanted money, you had to do something to earn it.” He’s still at...
When Jose Parra worked second shift at a factory assembling computer parts, he slept until it was time to work, then worked. And that was about it. Two years ago, when the entire second shift was laid off, Jose got a job as a crew member at Greenscape, Inc. Everything...
If you sniffed the air in the Raleigh area one weekend in early December, you probably got a whiff of the Greenscape, Inc. staff, baking up a storm. Busy in their home kitchens, they mixed, rolled, baked, iced and sprinkled holiday cookies. Then, on Monday, client...
Keith Updyke traveled a long way from Cobleskill, New York to Raleigh, North Carolina for his internship at Greenscape, Inc., crossing the Shenandoah Valley and leaving the frigid winter behind. As he tells it, “I was a 22-year-old kid who didn’t know what was...
Jon Davis was 13 when he and his twin brother, Don, started a landscaping business, mowing and tidying up the yards in their Morganton, NC neighborhood. “My itch for landscaping started early,” he says. Once they were 16 and could drive, they bought a trailer so they...
