People browse among more than 200 booths at the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce small business expo Wednesday at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
Staff Photo by Tim Barber/Chattanooga Times Free PressWhen Ethan Collier started his first construction job years ago, he asked his boss what he’d have to do to move into that post.
Once Collier had his boss’s job, he kept asking his supervisors the same question and eventually rose in the company so that the only person ahead of him was the business owner.
“He said, ‘You can’t work for me and have my job.’ So, I quit and started Collier Construction,” Collier said Wednesday after his company won a Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce small business award.
Collier said the split with his old company was amicable, and his former boss eventually came to work for Collier upon retirement.
Now 10 years old, Collier Construction has a focus on green construction, he said.