Roger a travaillé pour le chemin de fer Canadien National et l’ancienne usine de papier avant de suivre une formation de charpentier au collège communautaire. Il a exploité sa propre entreprise de construction pendant 23 ans.

He worked with CNR and the former Consolidated Bathurst Paper Mill, before going back to college to become carpenter and for 23 years was a operating his own Contracting Company.