Owen Drury

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355 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · From Budget Nightmare to Profit Machine · 6 Aug 2025 podcast

So I qualified as a quantity surveyor and as a subcontractor.

And do you know what?

One thing I loved about working as a sub was

You're marching for errors very low.

I don't know if you and your listeners would experience this, but you have to have a very strong attention to detail.

And I think it was a great lesson for me, like setting the foundation for my career, because, yeah, if you can't make a lot of errors, then you just by nature become a little bit more conscientious.

I never thought I would say that about myself, by the way, because I don't see myself as a truly conscientious person, but maybe I'm just harsh.

Well, it's tough.

I mean,

Well, put it this way.

Construction and the people working in the trades are not renowned or have not won many awards when it comes to tracking their finances on projects.

I think as long as there's more coming in than there's going out, then you're usually on a good path.

I don't think people are necessarily counting the pennies and the pounds.

They're just looking and going, oh, we're up this month.

Oh, no, we're down.

Like, what the hell do we do about this?

So that's one part to it.

But the second part to it is

It's very difficult.

You're always forecasting.

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