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How many hours is your optimal work day?
Hey friends 🤙🏻 I got back from my 2 week hitch at the mine camp up North. For those of you who are not familiar with where I'm from, it's what I call the middle of butt fuck nowhere, Saskatchewan, Canada ( pardon my French). But if southern half of it at least has some people living in it, the more North you get, the less civilization is around you, but nevertheless... this country if full of mineral resources and mines with working camps are becoming a decent way to make some 💰
Just a reminder why am I doing this and what does it have to do with epoxy ? 🤔
🤦🏻♂️ right... starting capital, duh. That was my initial mistake trying to start a business, I came in with not having any starting capital and I thought I'll just borrow what I need and new projects are just gonna cover all my expenses ,I'll pay off all the business loans in no time and start rolling in cash 😁
Ambitious goals aren't bad, but I wish someone would do a reality check on me, unfortunately there wasn't such a person by my side at a time and I had to learn these things the hard way, but since I seem to learn this way most of the things in life ( not just business related ), maybe because I'm too impulsive or maybe because I just didn't know who I could ask for advice 🤷🏻♂️ Here I am.
This group is actually my attempt to create something I wish I could lean on at times, at least in my mind I can see it that way and hopefully one day it will become something like this .
Back to my original thought.
After spending couple of weeks "up in the boonies" and working as much as I could physically push myself, putting in 16 hrs days on avarage, I noticed, that more than 90% of the people don't want to work that many hours. Even considering everyone at the camp was there for work. I mean yeah, they have a gym and hang out areas where people can socialize, but the main purpose of staying there is to make money, not watch TV or play pool. I thought to myself that if I want to, I can do all these things when I'm not working and when I'm back home and also that reminded me of how much work is involved in setting up a business.
I already made a post once , about What is your why ? The idea is that realistically working for someone is a lot easier a lot of times, also a lot of times you can even make more money by just working for someone and not have headaches, scheduled days off, all the Holidays spent with family and so on.
Some people think they will start their business to be their own boss and have a more flexible schedule...I too was native like that once 🫣
Some see numbers posted on social media by random person on how much money they make per every job and not seeing the flip side of the coin ( all expenses , payments, labor costs etc. )
Reality is when you start out, not just in this trade but in any other business, it's all gonna be competative and putting in 8 hour day vs putting in 12 hours ( I'm not saying you have to ) might just give that edge over other people.
Good news thought ( for us) ☝🏻 There is not too many people who are willing to put in the work .
How many hours a day do you work normally? Or what was your longest hours you ever put in and how do you look back at it now ?
And it's not a flex by any means, a lot of people told me that I'm crazy ,including my family members, I have accepted this 😁
Another aspect of working for yourself vs for someone else is that when you do work for someone, you only do what you are told and don't really have to think much in most cases ( I'm not talking about general manager positions and stuff like that, just regular " normal folk " jobs ) and that is the biggest advantage ( Imo ) of being "a person for hire" ,the more hours you put in,the more pay you get. In case you are your own boss and you are moving in the wrong direction and not knowing that, you are being not efficient and just pretty much "wasting your time". Like some clever person once said : " not doing anything sometimes is 50% more efficient than moving in the wrong direction ".
That's just my thoughts for the day, wanted to share with you all and hoping you all have a fantastic day, rest of the week and Happy Spring finally! 😁 those who were getting tired of snow can relate 😉🤙🏻
Please share your thoughts, we'll need to get more action in this community, have a good one 'yall !
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How many hours is your optimal work day?
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