A business owner describes waking up anxious about money owed to banks, but also celebrates paying off loans enough to hire staff. The worry never stops. As the company grows, new expenses and higher expectations just create fresh pressure.
Chapters
Like waking up in the middle of the night and be like, I owe a bank how much money? That's crazy. I can't even fathom that amount of money. And we've done that like a few times now to where it's like, wait, now we owe them how much? That's crazy. But we get them paid off. So we got rules. Yeah. And that's also a cool feeling being like, oh man, that's something that we're doing that is successful enough to pay off loans that and employ however many people. Like that's such a cool feeling. But do you have those nights, by the way, where you wake up and you're like, oh my God, this will depend on me?
Yeah.
Yeah, it never goes away.
It just gets worse every time something is added to the plate. I'm like, this used to be my goal of revenue and now it feels like I'm making nothing, but I'm making more than that. Yes, yes. It's such a weird aspect. And then you have to make more to compensate. For the expenses that you now have. Mm-hmm. Over and over and over and over.