Mikey P
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This should get Island boy all nipply...
Ed said:What Richard said. I've been working real hard at owning a business and I'd guess I'm about 1/2 way to the point of it running itself with some occassional tweaking. I can take off pretty much any day I want as long as it's only a day or two at a time! It's the long stretches I'm working for. My biggest obstacle is my own controlling nature. It's been the hardest thing in the world for me to acknowledge and relinquish. Stress and fatigue are great motivators though.
I feel so much better knowing that its not just here..rctpks said::mrgreen:
Larry you just described a typical day here, me here or not.
Worse than the guys, is the women here.
Man they fight, talk shit on each other and apparently love the "drama". They can be really frustrating when they want to be.
Ron Werner said:I'm in business for myself, no employees. Where did the defn that a "busn" makes money if you're not there come from or that a busn needs employees. When I go on vacation, there is no broken parts, nothing to worry about. I set my prices, I take whatever days off I need, I clean the way "I" want to clean, I don't have someone looking over my shoulder telling me to do it differently (not any more at least-some custys would do that before I started out performing the rest of the cleaners in town), I get the profit, I pay for the expenses. I control how much I want to work, I do the marketing, and when a client calls, they talk to the "owner". I "OWN" my busn.
A job is where you show up, you have no responsibilites other than doing the work assigned by your boss, ie the owner. You can be hired, you can be fired. You have no control over whether or not you will have that job. You get a paycheck at the end of the week, you're medical and everything is deducted off, you go home, drink beer, get laid, be back at work Monday morning.
The "busn" Owner, has to make sure there is work for the dude that has a job.
CleanEvolve said:I used to have a job, I could show up and not work and still get paid. Now if I don't work, I don't get paid, so it can't be a job... it must be a business.