Once you start taking responsibility for yourself, you begin making some money, little by little. You work a regular job or freelance.
Once you start taking responsibility for your colleagues, you make more money. You’re a team lead 🙂
Once you start taking responsibility for the company’s money, you start earning a pretty decent income. You’re an operations director—or something along those lines 🙂
Once you start taking responsibility for other people and paying their salaries out of your own pocket, you make even more money. Now you have a small team, and you’re basically an owner.
Of course, this is an idealized picture. Your business can shut down, and you can burn out or lose everything. But you get the idea.
By nature—or perhaps this is simply how our psychology works—people tend to be irresponsible. There’s no getting around it. Everyone screws up, arrives late, submits reports past the deadline, sleeps too much, skips exercise, drinks alcohol, and so on. People often choose instant gratification. Remember how great it felt to skip the first university class and stay in bed? 🙂
In the comments under my previous post, some people started telling me that my jobs must be terrible, that I pay too little, and that’s why everyone leaves. That’s all well and good, but there’s one problem with that argument: 90% of people drop out at the very beginning, before they have worked even three days. Here are some of the most common examples:
Someone applies for a job—we send them the terms—they disappear.
Someone applies—we send them the terms—they say they’ll watch the video tutorials but never do and never reply.
They watch the tutorials and reply three days later, saying they’ll start today—then disappear for a week.
They watch the videos, receive access to the websites—and disappear.
They receive access to the websites, install a WordPress template—and disappear.
They install five templates—and disappear.
They install five templates, add two pages—and disappear for a week.
They add five pages, do everything incorrectly, receive feedback—and disappear.
They make the requested changes, receive the next task—and disappear.
They read messages once a day and reply the following day.
They reply only once a day, so it takes us a week to complete a single page.
I could give another hundred examples like these. Yet everyone says the same thing at the start: they have plenty of free time, they’re willing to work just for the experience, and they’re eager to learn. You might say, “Those are just the wrong people. Where do you even find them? There are better candidates elsewhere.” I hire through freelance platforms, people message me directly, and I search everywhere I can. That’s how it is 🙂
I’m not hiring anyone else right now, so please don’t message me about joining the team. We need to train the people we’ve already hired.
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