Austin Willetts could have followed his father or uncle and stepped into a family-owned septic or drain cleaning business right out of high school. Instead, the Roseburg, Oregon, native opted to establish himself in another trade in town.
For a decade he worked at Roseburg Forest Products doing machine and facility maintenance, accumulating a whole other set of skills. But he eventually ended up transferring those skills to the industry he grew up around, starting his own septic and drain cleaning venture in 2020.“Looking back, it was scary. It was the scariest thing I’ve done in my life,” Willetts says. “To
