Entrepreneurial woes and a dunce like feeling!

Woe 1: There are never enough people when you need them

Woe 2: Those that are available for hire, are not good enough

Woe 3: Those that are there and are good enough, do not join a start up

Woe 4: Why do I have to fetch my own coffee, lock up after work and generally be everything to everybody?

Woe 5: Why do I only have 4 woes after this much soul searching?

Really Why??!!

In reverse order of woes, entrepreneurship is tough. But boy, is it satisfying!!

A sense of freedom and ownership like never before pervades the mind. Hence only 4 woes! At least this far.

But dwelling a bit on 1, 2 and 3. I had always heard and read about prospective employees who take an offer from you and then bargain with others. Never had it happen to me till last week. Let me tell you it is tough.

There is a sense of being let down, being taken for a ride and a general feeling of being the dunce. But let me ask this - who is the bigger dunce? Us for whom life goes on and we find a replacement (a better one) in just 4 days. Or the person who left us in the lurch for whom none of us will have a good word, ever.

We all have a rep to protect. Is it worth sacrificing over a few thousands? I do not think so at all.

I formly believe that a company is only as good as it's last job delivered and a person as good as his/her last word/promise kept. If either be bad, it ain't gonna be happenin' for too long.

Ce la vie'

Till I have more, stay well...