I’m glad you found the post helpful.

I wrote a long reply and lost it.

For many years I owned a business with up to 18 employees. Although I enjoyed it for the 20 years I did it, when I sold the company, I was ready for something different. I don’t want to deal with employees or subcontractors. I don’t want to have to find reliable people or companies and then have to make sure they did the job right. I don’t want to have to market.

Although in a sense I do “anything and everything” because I provide a lot of different services to my clients, I am blessed to be able to be very selective in the jobs I accept. I have plenty to keep me busy and pay the bills by doing only what I love. At this point in my life, doing what I want when I want is far more important than making a lot of money.

However, I realize that my clients will want someone to take over when I retire in a few years. And there may be times when I can’t or don’t want to work. So I am now training an apprentice, Beverly Ellison. I will have her help me as needed and when I retire she will take over for me.

But in general, no outsourcing for me. I have tried it a few times and vowed I wouldn’t do it again.

Obviously you enjoy what you do. But the problem is you have to be there 100% of the time for the money to keep coming in. What happens if you want to take a vacation?

Also, if you were to outsource some of it, you could spend more time doing the activities you enjoy more, rather than trying to do anything and everything.

I’ve always heard that the most important activity is marketing, and that if you were to outsource everything else and focus just on that, you would be the most successful.

But I guess if you enjoy every aspect of the business, there’s no need to do that. I just like the idea of my money working for me rather than having to always be there to produce income.

Excellent point. Thanks for being part of the conversation.