02/02/2023
“HIRING IS A WASTE OF MONEY” 😰
As a freelancer, I have heard this sentence more often than I would like. And it’s not always about hiring me.
⚡ A few months ago, one of my clients (a modern-jewelry business owner) told me that she doesn’t want to hire help for packing orders because it’s a waste of money.
As a result, she would stay up every night packing all the orders herself and then be extremely tired and groggy throughout the next day. She couldn’t focus on her business, was too irritable because of sleep deprivation and ultimately was on the verge of burning out. 🤒
Now, during this course of time, she had become a really good friend of mine and so I was able to intervene and almost forced her to hire someone for the job.
She finally did and I kid you not, it changed the whole trajectory of her business and her personal life in general. She was able to sleep better, was more active throughout the day, had time for her family and was overall HAPPIER. She had the time and the energy to actually focus on growing her business. 📈
Does she still think it’s a waste of money? Absolutely not.
In fact, now she has hired two more people for the same job because her business is constantly growing and orders keep pouring in.
When you hire someone for a job, it’s not always just that. You are hiring someone who is better at the job than you are (because you can’t be an expert at doing everything). So you are getting :
✔ Efficiency
✔ Expertise
✔ Time (that you would have otherwise spent on doing the task)
I don’t know about you, but it definitely sounds like a great deal to me. 🔥
I understand that when you are starting out, hiring someone might not seem feasible. I have been in that position when my budget was close to none and, therefore, I couldn’t even think about paying someone else. But then, the workload was comparatively low as well so I was able to handle it. 🌻
But once my business started growing, I realized how important it was to delegate work and let an expert take care of it.
So, do you still think hiring is a waste of money? 🤔