Jamie Smith brought an unusual background to his Mr. Rooter franchise in Baltimore.His license is in accounting, not the pipe trades. And the business is actually Smith’s second career – or maybe even third, depending on how you count it.The 45-year-old isn’t a plumber by training and didn’t come from a family steeped in the trade – although he later found out he was following in the footsteps of his maternal grandfather.“My mother does love that now with my college education, I’ve gone into plumbing like her father did,” he says with a laugh.Now in his fifth year as president
