After a year and a half working in the oil fields of North Dakota right out of college, Miles Holden came to a realization. “I knew I could not work for somebody,” he says.
During his college days, he had worked with some septic installers, and that’s the industry he turned to when thinking about self-employment. He wasted no time getting his installer’s license and in 2016 got his first job — a repair on a hand-dug pipe system — from a referral.Today Holden’s company, MHI Contractor & Septic Services in Mills River, North Carolina, has a staff of 20 who
