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The CLASSIC Contractor Conundrum | Nathaniel Ealy

8 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short monologue from Nathaniel Ealy describing the pressures contractors face when they underbid jobs—being squeezed between closing sales and completing underpriced work—his personal reaction of withdrawing to read business books rather than apply them, and his brief plan to launch a concrete division that was halted by the end of a recession. The piece is informal, reflective, and anecdotal.

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That's the classic contractor conundrum. You're trying to close sales because you're. You're starving while trying to finish a job that you underbid, and you just are squeezed on both ends and. And you don't have the time to fix it. And for me, I didn't have the desire. I just like, oh, I can't stand this. Oh, my God. I liked that I was earning some good money. I liked that, you know, I could bring some guys in and have some friends to work with. But now I just want to, like, sit in my little basement cave and, like, read these business books. These are super fun. This is cool. This is cool stuff. I just love reading these books. But you know what? I'm not going to apply anything in here. I'm just going to read it because it sounds so fun. So that's basically what I did. And at the same time, I thought it would be great to launch a concrete division. And then, mercifully, the recession ended it all.