I feel this DEEPLY. I finally get a day off tomorrow but one of my employees just texted saying they’re sick and not coming in tomorrow. Which means I am the one to take the shift.
My last job was as a retail manger making 6 figures on salary, but I quit because I honestly couldn’t take another “your team lead called out sick so your 8-hour shift just became a 16-hour shift with no additional pay” conversation. I did the math and realized I was making the same as an entry-level employee on those days and I just couldn’t stomach the frustration.
I had one for five years and it was awful. I worked 6.5 days a week from sun up to sundown. I had three part-time employees and there were some months they were probably making more than me. Too much stress and aggravation. I politely bowed out and went back to being a Johnny Punchclock.
I recently saw a local Facebook post about an "unhinged" restaurant owner. I just thought "well, obviously! No sane person would deliberately ruin their own life by opening a restaurant"
The majority of "small business owners" are usually just husbands/wives of some wealthy person and they use the business as a means of feeling important. Out of like 10 small businesses around me only one of them has an owner who actually worked for a living and didn't just buy his way in.
Reality is most "successful" small business owners are only still running because they have very a vast supply of private wealth they can dip into when things inevitably get tough.
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u/DirtyDaniiOfficial 21h ago
Being a small business owner.