For a guy who never planned to become a plumber, Joseph Wood has done pretty well by anyone’s measure. After dropping plans for a career in computer networking, he eventually made a career U-turn and followed the tradesman path trod by his father and brothers, then went on to establish Boston Standard Plumbing and Heating, which last year generated more than $5 million in revenue.
Not bad for someone who bounced around between several jobs after he left New Hampshire Community Technical College, which he’d been attending for several years. At the time, the dot-com bubble was starting to burst, a
