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Nah, if I do it myself, I put $80 in MY pocket and not someone elses.
Part of the reason that one out of three businesses fail is because the owner hires someone instead of working themselves.
20yrsinBranson
Only in the infancy of the business should you be required to work for it. However, infancy can last anywhere from a year to 30 years. But at some point, the business should be self-sustained and you should only be required for decisions.
As a business owner, I cannot even begin to imagine working 40 hours a week. LOL
Personally, I think that people need to work more. There is nothing more aggravating than getting off work at 9 pm and not being able to find any place to eat (especially on Sunday). You can't go to the post office, you can't get an eye examination, you can't even get your car washed!
I'd love to see a 24 hour economy. Not only would it provide 60 percent more jobs, but it would allow people, like myself, who don't have the luxury of having much time off to actually get things accomplished.
20yrsinBranson
No way, that'd suck to high heaven. Nights are for sleeping, I don't want to have the people I know working all night and then having to sleep in the day. If anything, I'd pass a law to require a 30% night shift differential to discourage people working at night - it's just not healthy as a society as a whole.
As for your situation, I'd hire someone part-time for just a couple of days a week so you can do errands at the normal times like the rest of us . And, should you be laid up with the flu, you'll have someone around to fill in for you (hopefully). Don't try to do it all yourself, this sounds like a good way to get burned.
Nah, if I do it myself, I put $80 in MY pocket and not someone elses.
Part of the reason that one out of three businesses fail is because the owner hires someone instead of working themselves.
20yrsinBranson
People have a different perspective of "failing". From your posts I have a feeling many people might shut down the business under the extreme hours you are working for yours.
People have a different perspective of "failing". From your posts I have a feeling many people might shut down the business under the extreme hours you are working for yours.
I agree. Not everyone is as committed, determined and motivated to succeed as I am.
As a business owner, I cannot even begin to imagine working 40 hours a week. LOL
Personally, I think that people need to work more. There is nothing more aggravating than getting off work at 9 pm and not being able to find any place to eat (especially on Sunday). You can't go to the post office, you can't get an eye examination, you can't even get your car washed!
I'd love to see a 24 hour economy. Not only would it provide 60 percent more jobs, but it would allow people, like myself, who don't have the luxury of having much time off to actually get things accomplished.
20yrsinBranson
I agree. What if I wake up at 3AM Christmas morning and want my eye exam- I definitely think I should have that option, or of stopping to get my car washed after Thanksgiving dinner. If people weren't so lazy and would just work more, I could have all these conveniences that I deserve as a red-blooded American in the 21st century.
Really, what if I wanted to go for a tan at 10PM on a Sunday? It's not like YOU'RE gonna be willing to help me out with that. You should work more.
I agree. What if I wake up at 3AM Christmas morning and want my eye exam- I definitely think I should have that option, or of stopping to get my car washed after Thanksgiving dinner. If people weren't so lazy and would just work more, I could have all these conveniences that I deserve as a red-blooded American in the 21st century.
Really, what if I wanted to go for a tan at 10PM on a Sunday? It's not like YOU'RE gonna be willing to help me out with that. You should work more.
If someone let me know ahead of time that they wanted to come in at 10 pm on Sunday. I would be here. Even for $7.
I have been closed and walking out the door and had a regular customer show up. I went back in, turned on the beds and waited for them without making a penny. And we will be open both Thanksgiving and Christmas. We take customer service very seriously.
Back in the 60s, they said computers would eventually enable people to work 22-hour weeks.
OOPS.
However, I don't buy into the whole "full-time" thing. After 23 years, I pulled the plug on working for someone else and went freelance. Now some weeks I work 20 hours, others I work 50, and it's all dictated by workload that I obtain and control, not the clock and not a company that is more concerned with whether a butt is in a chair than whether the owner of that butt is productive. (And then feels free to punish efficiency by giving the productive more work to do.)
When I did office work, there were so many times when this happened...I'd always be up to my eyeballs in work, with more work piled onto me, while others got paid to stand around and gossip all day.
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Nights are for sleeping, I don't want to have the people I know working all night and then having to sleep in the day. If anything, I'd pass a law to require a 30% night shift differential to discourage people working at night - it's just not healthy as a society as a whole. 
. And, should you be laid up with the flu, you'll have someone around to fill in for you (hopefully). Don't try to do it all yourself, this sounds like a good way to get burned.
