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Employee Spotlight - John Timmers | Derrick Custom Homes

Written by Sarah Jackson | Mar 20, 2018 11:58:00 AM

Rapid Fire Questions

  • Packers or Vikings?
  • Pack
  • Favorite winter time hobby?
  • Woodworking
  • Favorite TV show?
  • Game of Thrones
  • Badgers or Gophers?
  • Badgers
  • Favorite thing about Spring?
  • Mowing the lawn
  • Elton, Skynard, Taylor or McGraw?
  • The Beatles eat their lunch
  • If you could splurge on one thing in work/life/dreams, what would it be?
  • Bigger Shop
  • Any awesome vacations planned?
  • Going to Colorado to tour some mining camps this summer

To make the best it takes the best and we have the best employees working for us!  Just in case you haven’t had the opportunity to meet the team members here at Derrick, we want to give you that opportunity!

Meet John Timmers, one of our Project Superintendents for Derrick Building Solutions.  John has been with Derrick Companies for several years and knows pretty much all there is to know about building a successful building.

  • How did you first get involved in the Derrick Companies?
  • “I wanted a job and Tom hired me.”
  • What was your first impression of Derrick Companies?
  • The amount of work we do’.”
  • What was your first memory of Derrick Companies?
  • Bill Boshart as my foreman”
  • What has surprised you most about working with Derrick Companies?
  • Their ability to hold onto employees so long.”
  • What do you find most challenging about working for Derrick Companies?
  • The off hour work is hard on my old body.”
  • When your friends/family find out that you work for Derrick what is their response?
  • “Almost everyone has been through or knows someone who has been through a Derrick project.”
  • What might someone be surprised to know about you?
  • My woodwork has been in magazines and on TV.”
  • If you weren’t working for Derrick what would you be doing instead?
  • Handyman”