{"id":4571,"date":"2025-10-07T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:20:32","slug":"announcement-my-change-in-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/announcement-my-change-in-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement &#8211; My Change in Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you missed my announcement on LinkedIn, here it is below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cIt has been over 15 years since I returned to HCSS as a HeavyBid Contract Trainer. Today is my last training day, marking the end of a total of 25 years of training (I was also a trainer from 1990 to 2000). I am reasonably certain that I am the last person involved with HCSS who hails back to the early days of HeavyBid, when our estimating team at Raymond International hired Mike Rydin to program an estimating system. My plan is now to continue to produce blogs and YouTube videos on HeavyBid, as well as offer private HeavyBid training on a limited basis. Look for future announcements on this. Many thanks to HCSS Professional Services for providing me with steady work. And thank you to all the other HCSS groups that have supported me over the years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I missed blogging, posting YouTube videos and digging into details of estimating and specifically HeavyBid. I am switching gears, slowing down and doing more of what I enjoy. Hopefully you will benefit from the transition. I still enjoy 4-hour remote training sessions that I believe is one of the best investments a HeavyBid user can make. I can conduct 4 to 6 sessions per month. If you&#8217;re interested, please email me for a quote. I will soon have an online appointment booking system available. So as the only independent blogger on HeavyBid (and YouTuber) stay tuned.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you missed my announcement on LinkedIn, here it is below.&nbsp; \u201cIt has been over 15 years since I returned to HCSS as a HeavyBid Contract Trainer. Today is my last training day, marking the end of a total of 25 years of training (I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}