lol, I got to love you guys.
ITs the curse of being in the trades. Either we are super busy and hectic and stressed out, or slow and stressed out about not having enough work.
it was fine when it was just me but with a j-man now its like another kid I got to make sure is feed and clothed,
Yeah I mostly work alone. I had a helper for a few years, and it was so much work.
Did you make more or the same?? Do you ever want to sell.,, seem that is were you need employees
Good luck with that.
I dont think it was worth it. All the extra time billing, keeping track of time and materials, managing him, etc. Plus at times I had to pay him more than I could bill him.
Same here. My wife seems to think I need help, my knees are getting bad and I can't do all the things I used to, or at least not as easily. She doesn't understand how much work it can be babysitting someone else. If you hire someone well qualified you better have plenty for them to do as well as pay them well enough they will stay or it will all end sooner instead of later and you are working alone again. If you already have a well trained person it probably is easier to bring on a third or even fourth helper and let the first one manage them with most the daily tasks while you can work on other aspects of running your business when needed. I haven't had that sort of experience since I was that "first person" for somebody else. And it is getting to be almost thirty years since then. I've learned how to do a lot of things by myself that I used to always have help for. Not that help wouldn't be nice for certain tasks at times.
