The honest conversation most engineers avoid having with themselves

And I had to have a really honest conversation with myself. I was doing so much that it isn't always about the money. Sometimes you have to, you have to take that risk, otherwise you stay where you are. Like you say, you hit a ceiling and the only way of breaking through that ceiling is thinking outside the box a little bit or taking that risk. And it's either going to pay off or it's not. And quite often than not, it probably won't to start with, you know, until you get it right. And I think that's just a cycle of life and learning. So I needed to look at it and think, Okay, what do I need to change here? Where's the bottleneck in the business? Who do I need to bring in that's going to help me expand for a start? And I had to have a really honest conversation with myself. I was doing so much that it isn't always about the money. It's your quality of life and time and your health and mental health. And I had to really sit with it and say to myself, like, am I self-employed or do I want to own a business?