Good engineers get trapped solving urgent problems all day, which keeps them from building the bigger vision they wanted. Competence becomes a cage: the better you are at firefighting, the less time you have to lead.
Most people end up in something called the success trap, where because they're good at their job, they end up just being stuck. But in reality, because they're good at their job, the curse of that is that they just get so busy that all they do every day is spend their day putting out fires, solving these problems for these customers, and they never get to actually build the business that they initially set out to do.
Your Profit Is More Than Your Salary: Pricing A Trades Business w/ Doug D'Aubrey
Is taking over another gas business a realistic alternative to hiring from scratch?
He Took Over Another Gas Business After 3 Years As A Sole Trader w/ Dan Giles
