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Ray O'Connor
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Oct 1, 2026
Building Back Stronger: Resilience, Risk and Learning to Say No with Ray O’Connor
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9:45Ray O'ConnorGUEST
Um, I suppose yeah, with Dad it started probably as I was, uh, entering the trade, um, and going out the other side of my trade.
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9:55Ray O'ConnorGUEST
Um, he was doing quite a lot of commercial and then I would say by my mid-20s, um, the early 2000s, um, he just had enough.
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10:06Ray O'ConnorGUEST
Uh, he didn't like jumping through all the hoops, didn't like the retentions being held.
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10:11Ray O'ConnorGUEST
Um, yeah, the long payment delays sta- I, I think he got burnt a couple of times, um, with, um, uh, the commercial side of things, and I think he found it more profitable and easier, uh, in the residential side of things.
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10:25Ray O'ConnorGUEST
So, uh, a lot of my early years out of, um, uh, out of my apprenticeship was, you know, um, built on extensions and renovations and upper story extensions on, um, on, on residential homes, mixed with the odd occasional, um, uh, uh, commercial project.
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10:46Ray O'ConnorGUEST
But, uh, and then yeah, went into building new homes by my mid, mid to late 20s, so.