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Meet Nathan, one of our Pest Control Technicians! 🤝

Name: Meet Nathan, one of our Pest Control Technicians! 🤝
Uploaded: 2025-07-22T07:23:13+00:00
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Channel: Jarrad Goulding
Description: Short interview-style YouTube clip introducing Nathan Golding, a franchise owner and pest control technician for The Local Guys. Nathan describes his…

22 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Short interview-style YouTube clip introducing Nathan Golding, a franchise owner and pest control technician for The Local Guys. Nathan describes his path from worker to franchise owner (4 years at the company; bought his franchise ~2 years after starting), emphasizes improved work–life balance (three young children; flexible hours), and outlines routine field work: servicing Adelaide City Council rodent stations (about 30 sites), doing ~4–5 jobs/day, typically starting around 9:30 AM and finishing by 3–4 PM. The clip is informal and conversational.

Questions this video answers

Four years.

About two years after starting.

Three young children.

About 30 sites.

Approximately four to five jobs per day.

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Why are you wearing shorts, man? It's like four degrees. The ladies love the pins so I gotta get them now. Like that? Yeah, that's good. Hey guys, My name is Nathan Golding, I work for the local guys. I got my own franchise. I started working for the local guys four years ago as a worker. About two years into it, I liked it that much I bought my own franchise and now I own the local guys. Blackview. Best part about it is the work life balance off because I've got three young kids so my last job I was doing 40 hours a week where now I can set my own hours and yeah, go to the. Pick the kids up from school, drop them off at school if I need to go to their sports, stuff like that. Yeah, cool. So yeah, just going through the city. We looked after the Adelaide City Council so we're just going to change the rodent stations. There's about 30 sites throughout the city just going, opening up, checking the bait, just changing it over when we need to. But yeah, probably four to five jobs a day. Like I don't start till 9:30 most days. Nice. Normally done by about three or four o'. Clock. What's going on here?