Let's cut the corporate BS and get real. When you came across this posting you probably thought GM of a restoration company? That's an on-call job. Probably running around in a pickup truck at 3am, fighting with adjusters, working for a family that won't pay me what I'm worth. Pass.

Didn't your parents teach you not to judge a book by its cover?

Let me tell you why that assumption is wrong and why this is the best career move you can make right now:

A massive opportunity for your career

The Canadian commercial restoration market is structurally upside down. The top is dominated by operators (Belfor, FirstOnSite, Paul Davis Canada, ServiceMaster Restore, Onside) all running on someone else's clock — private equity holding periods, public-company quarterly reporting, or a captive insurer's claim flow. The middle is franchise networks where service consistency depends on whichever owner-operator is signing t...