Story · 1:33
// THE QUOTE
“and i work for a company and here i am a young young man 24 years old”
— Patrick Lafreniere · JCB Construction Canada Inc.
Clean origin beat: a 24-year-old reporting to the president panics about the next 40 years and walks away from IT into Newfoundland construction — a full turning-point arc that lands on its own.
Full episode at 1:33BIM, Pre-Planning, and the $100 vs $10,000 Rule — Patrick Lafreniere, JCB Construction Canada (Newfoundland) ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Getting formal project-management training (PMP) changes the language you use with owners and trades — replacing fire-fighting with structured scope/cost/time conversations.
“after doing the pmp you get to understand how between scope and cost and you can speak more intelligently about the triangle”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Patrick's Career Origin Story
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SOURCE: 1:33 of BIM, Pre-Planning, and the $100 vs $10,000 Rule — Patrick Lafreniere, JCB Construction Canada (Newfoundland)