Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Burn Out in Lawn Care 😓 #landscaping #labor #burnout

8 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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A short conversational clip from a YouTube video where two speakers (A and B) discuss worker burnout and job dissatisfaction in lawn care/landscaping. They share anecdotes about hiring skilled employees who feel unfulfilled (one wants to become a firefighter; another is a skilled excavator being used to push mowers), and reflect on how role mismatch and the speaker's own hiring/assignment choices contribute to burnout and underutilized talent.

I think I made some mistakes. I have a guy right now who's working for me who's phenomenal. Got around to hiring him. He realized he wanted to be a firefighter. That's what he wanted to do with his life. He's like, hey, man, I don't want to keep doing this work. I'd want to do something different, maybe that has more of a future.
This is actually kind of meaningless work to me. I don't believe in this. You know, like, there's aspects I still like. And then I feel like that was kind of, like burning me out.
And I'm like, I hear you. Actually, I have a guy working for me that is a phenomenal excavator. Like, and that guy. I got that guy out there pushing mowers around. And I'm like, your talent is being underutilized. And it's my fault because I chose to do this.
And then burnout always kind of comes in, like, waves. It'll kind of come, and then, okay, it goes away. Okay, I'll keep working, and then it'll come bigger and bigger, and it's like, okay, now I have to kind of, like, make a change. And.