Rick Murphey earned a living straight out of high school. The year was 1979, and while the country was fighting a growing energy crisis, fueling the worst recession since World War II, Murphey scored a job as a hot roofer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Those days are well behind him as he now enjoys the success that four-plus decades of hard work delivers. Of his entry into roofing, he says it was grueling work. Also, around that time, a new roofing system emerged and would subsequently change the course of Murphey’s career.