Hey! This is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, I want to tell you how my first employee has left.
So, earlier this year, I talked about growing the company and how I really needed to hire somebody.
I have teams overseas, I have a team in the Philippines, I have teams in Vietnam
but when it comes to like dealing with clients and doing things on a day to day
basis, I was swamped. I have too much to do. And this is something I've needed to
do for like years, as I need to grow and hire some new people. But the
idea scared me to death. Just having somebody where you're responsible for
them in the office, I know overseas you're responsible for them too, but it's
just keeping somebody busy all the time. It's a lot more expensive to hire
somebody locally and all the employment laws and everything you have
to adhere with. But about four months I finally did hire my first person and
you know, last week when I said your first app was like your first car, I
think, it's kind of the same with hiring somebody. If you're gonna make mistakes,
that's where you're gonna make those mistakes. So now, she's gone. I'm all by
myself again. So, she had noticed last week she found another job,
something that was a little bit more challenging and a bit more money. And I
thought that was perfectly fine. Part of me felt, probably felt disappointed, you
know, like I think that I thought things were going going okay, but part of
me was kind of relieved too, because then there's like one less expense, someone to
keep busy cuz I swear before she started the phone was ringing off the hook and
once she started not so much. There's a lot of boredom there. And I can -
I've worked in jobs where they sat me down at a desk and they didn't really
have anything for me to do and I was just trying to keep myself busy all the time.
And sometimes that's more exhausting than just being busy. So, there's lots of
things I've learned from this. First of all, it's really hard when you just been
running the show on your own for so long to start delegating things and this is
something I've always been really bad at. So, there's some things and this
is - this is gonna sound stupid to you, guys, but like I said, I'm just
learning and don't judge me. There are things that I would not delegate
because well, I thought they were too complicated like code or whatever. So,
that was one thing. But there's other things I didn't delegate because I
thought it was beneath the person that I'd hired. I don't want to - I don't want
it to give - that's - you shouldn't have to work on that. I'll do that bit or
whatever. Just because, you know, that's too boring or whatever. And then
in the end, you know, that was it. So, anyway, but but I was fine with it. I was
like - you know, I've changed job so many times in my life. I'm not into
this whole "you must be loyal to your employer" all that stuff because
business is business. But you know - so, I will look for somebody again here
soon, but it'll probably be part-time. That was another thing, once I started
getting everything done, it would have probably been better to go
part-time and everything like that. Anyway,
I just thought I'd update you, guys, on that because I know for a while I was
talking about that for a long time. I went through the whole, you know, going to
HR people getting contracts signed up, getting everything done, so I actually -
I'm actually employing for the next year. Actually no. It might be longer than
a year. An HR company saw me paying a enny every month or something and I don't even
have any employees besides myself. So, you know, it's a thing. Business has been -
it hasn't been slow really, it's just been - there's a lot of things
that projects take a little bit longer and sometimes there's not enough for two
people to do. So. I'm gonna start looking for a part-time person. Anyway, I'd
like to know if you guys have hired somebody. What kind of
experiences if you had it there? Because it's, um, you know for me, I think just
being my first person was a bit - it's a bit of a challenge, a bit of a
learning thing, but a lot of it- a lot of it wasn't so much not knowing what to do.
It's just feel comfortable doing it and just being comfortable being
the boss. And it's easy to be the boss overseas via email and Skype and
everything like tha. But being the boss locally, yeah, I think I need to
work on that a little bit more. So anyway, that's it today. I'll talk to you, guys,
tomorrow!