I Make $80K A Year Repairing Air Conditioners | On The Job

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Roger Cuadra, 40, is an heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) technician in Anaheim, CA. Born in Nicaragua and raised in Whittier, CA, Cuadra’s career started at a Food For Less where he worked as a bag boy making $7.25 an hour. This year, he aims to cross the $100,000 mark working for Nexgen Air and Heat.

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How I Went From $7.25 An Hour To $80K A Year | On The Job

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  3. Nextgen is a rip off company. Real tradesmen won't work for this company. guess what happens when you work on commission? Up sell! We had a client pay 3,800 for their maintenance from Nextgen, we do it for 200.00 bucks. Change outs they charge 20/30K we charge half that..This company is a boiler room corporate scam. I feel bad for the customers and employees.

  8. I’m thinking of doing this, but on a county level, maybe for a school district or for the city but it seems the best route to his career is starting off somewhere and then branching off and making your own company

  9. I expect trades will sky rocket in pay/salary because the demand will be so much higher when ai takes over and everyone else’s skill sets/degrees will be useless

  13. This guy is a selling tech. Not a technician. Starting in the world of commission you learn real quick if you can’t sell you don’t get good calls. They make 9% commission on system sales while a tech has to flip a lead to them and on make 3%. And if selling tech doesn’t sell your lead you get nothing. I worked over 40 hours one week and flipped 7 calls and none sold and I only made $200 on my paycheck. Commission makes immoral people selling stuff you may not need or want. Hourly makes honest techs and as long as you do a good job you can still make good money and commissions. I sell more as an hourly tech than commission tech because I leave that home knowing I gave the customer great service without having to be pushy sales

  16. Thought about being an HVAC tech myself but then I heard about the long hours, and that's just not for me. I believe in working hard but I also believe in living. Life is short. Don't overtime it all away.

  24. By the way, this dude is getting ripped off and don't even know it. He admits his job is full commission and tbh, if he was in the Union doing commercial, he'd be breaking 150k this year, not aiming for 100. NexGen is ripping him off and this channel don't even realize how bad this deal is. Piece work is trash work. Good techs work for hour pay for good work. But W/e, what would i know, I'm just a former commercial hvac tech with controls knowledge. My opinion is garbage. Just another example of garbage journalism.

  35. These guys are sales people this guy's probably not a skilled technician he wasn't schooled hes just out there ripping people off Selling equipment and installing is not what it's all about it's about doing the right thing for the customer companies like yours make good companies look bad Is hack

  36. That's all you make in California that's sad with all the high taxes and the democrats that vote everything to be expensive there you should be making twice that Thanks to Gavin newsome your pay scale Is not that high for over there.

  37. 12-14 hours a day, 6 days a week, that’s 72-84 hours a week, full commission. Do you get healthcare and retirement on top of that? Sounds like you make a lot. But it’s not equal to that much money hourly. A normal 40 hour week at 45.00 an hour is over 90,000 a year, and you don’t have to worry about selling.

  48. My brother work on this job but he don't work with someone or company if you do so you will make a little money and you keep dreaming to hit 100k one day.

    But my brother he started working with company after 2 years of experience he started his own company and he work within our community and keep sharing his information to each other until he get a lot of customers.

    He make 20k a month or more easily his best record so far is 45k a month.

    Go to any technical school, work for a company, learn and gain experience, then leave when you trust your expertise.

    You can work alone and get a lot of money when you get enough money, don't spend forever to get an assistant, then a second, then a third, meaning that you get employees who work for you, continue to grow your company and one day you will be like this company your employees will dream to hit 100k instead of working solo and make their own company and you will make millions without working hard just going to office

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