After years of working in the hotel and restaurant business, Matt Bellmann knew it was time for a change. He didn’t want to work inside anymore; he wanted a job that would allow him to be outside.His dad owned a concrete business, and Bellmann had always dreamed of having his own company. In 2012, that dream became reality when he founded Sweetwater Utility Exploration. “It was just one of those things where I wanted to own a business,” Bellmann says. “I just started pinching pennies and saved wherever I could and went for it.”The company, based in Troutman, North Carolina,
