#62 CJ Nielsen is the first electrician to join the guys
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🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 168 minutes
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Summary
CJ Nielsen is a high-end residential electrical contractor in Sonoma County California. CJ talks about his start in the industry which eventually lead him to create CNC Electric. He discusses the economy he works in, wildfires, and where he sees himself in 10 years.Â
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| 0:00.0 | On this podcast we have CJ Nielsen from CNC Electric. He is out of Petaluma, which is Sonoma County, California. |
| 0:10.0 | He is a residential higher end electrician. |
| 0:14.0 | So we discuss his start in the industry. |
| 0:18.0 | I guess his economy, what's going on with wildfires and where he wants to see himself in 10 years. |
| 0:26.7 | I like how he realizes later in his career how he had that realization where he's like I'm just not a good employee and how he that's that's what kick-started |
| 0:38.1 | at CNC Electric. You gotta love it guys. Oh, I did my LinkedIn so week. |
| 0:47.3 | My social media game could be... |
| 0:49.5 | If I was... |
| 0:50.5 | I was with you right now, slap you. |
| 0:52.2 | It's weak. I know I know it's I know why I've heard your link I think I only have |
| 0:57.2 | LinkedIn because of you. You just said you were gonna say Instagram you think your |
| 1:01.1 | Instagram is week? I don't know like it's hard like I'm what are you comparing it to? Yeah because you're probably one of the only electricians I follow. Well like I mean I try I haven't been trying hard enough. You know how it is like you could definitely make sure you as far as posts go? |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, like content like right so content like I always kind of envious of like I get like when you're an awesome builder and you got a ton of cool things of the whole house where you can kind of filter through it. |
| 1:28.0 | So you also are like having designers follow you and so it's hard like it's there's a it's a |
| 1:36.4 | it's a more narrow audience I'm sure you know but at your the level of quality at |
| 1:42.0 | least that what you're putting out and I'm seeing or we're seeing like that's that's why I follow |
| 1:47.1 | You universe like I think it's you and I might get it wrong major league electric or something like where they repose like yeah I don't know |
| 1:54.4 | is major league I've seen a major league around my it's weird I just they post a lot of they post like other people's stuff But it's always like crazy conduit work. |
| 2:03.8 | And like I watch guys bang condo. |
| 2:05.2 | I'm like, I don't even know what you just did. |
| 2:06.9 | Yeah, no, there's some prideful dudes that like, especially like union conduit guys. |
| 2:11.9 | It's like, you know, slaying pipe all day it's pretty it's awesome I mean anybody |
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