This book is about the life of Jim Scott, from his birth in 1962 through to 2022, a journey that took him from a blue-collar family to becoming a successful businessman and self-made millionaire. His journey starts like that of any normal kid in a Canadian middle-class family living in a one-industry town. However, tragedy struck with the loss of his father in 1977. Jim left school less than a year later, and at sixteen years of age, with only a grade eight education, he ventured off to trades school in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. He tried a course in autobody mechanics but found it wasn’t for him. Next he tried his hand at learning the millwright trade at a different trades school. His search for employment landed him several jobs throughout Canada and the USA, until at the age of forty-four he created his own firm, Standard Consulting Inc. In nine years, this project and construction management firm grew to a multi-million dollar operation via work from mines with the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), Wabush, and Vale. At the age of fifty-three, Jim Scott sold his company to a national engineering firm and remained as one of its very few non-engineering partners and owners. He managed a multitude of clients in Energy and Industry, two large sectors in Atlantic Canada, including Newfoundland Hydro, Newfoundland Power, New Brunswick Power, Nova Scotia Power, Maritime Electric (PEI), Saint John Energy, Wabush Mines, IOC Mine, CFI Mine, and Vale Mine. Jim Scott retired in 2021 at the age of fifty-nine, only to begin a new venture, namely starting a new firm, Scott Consulting Inc., which now provides business development throughout Newfoundland and Labrador for two large Canadian firms.

Jim Scott was born and raised in Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador. He is a self-made millionaire and Seventh Son. When he dropped out of high school with only a grade eight education, his brothers told him not to expect to accomplish much without a formal education. They also advised him to set reasonable expectations. His choices at the time were to work at the local mill, as his father and grandfather had before him, or to join the military, like two of his brothers, or to be like his other brothers, who were high-voltage power linesmen. They were great choices, he thought—for someone else.Instead, he forged his own path, the charm of being a seventh son always in the back of his mind as he moved forward. His unorthodox rise to financial success is a compelling tale of hard work, hard times, and a small dose of magic.The definition of success is the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted. It took the author a long time to find the courage to break from his old-world view of dollars for time and find success through a paradigm shift in thinking. At age forty-four, he started his own business, something he had wanted and felt destined to do from the age of eight. Nine years after he started his business, he was a millionaire.When asked to share the secret of his success, Jim invariably says it is a combination of determination, arduous work, and being the very best at what you do.Following the encouragement of family and friends, Jim Scott wrote Seventh Son, his first book. It shares his experience of rising from a blue-collar life in a Central Newfoundland pulp and paper town to become a successful businessman.

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