Originally Posted by
Aaryn NZ
... Awh man, :awman:
I wish I had the answers to your question buddy.
I have gone both ways unsuccessfully in terms of hiring someone with no experience, & someone who had a few years experience but I do believe if you have the time & patience that there is “that person” out there that is a perfect fit for your business.
For me I guess, the shop was getting busier & busier & I had the work there easily enough for say - two staff plus me & the appeal was perhaps this would give me the opportunity to step back a bit & be the Husband & Father I wish I could be.
I figured that if I took on an inexperienced team member I could start from scratch & pour all the knowledge I could into this person & not only set in place the standards of work required worthy of our shop but also give that person a platform to have a career in the industry that I love so much. Alas, & I am aware that much of the blame can fall on myself too but respectively I don’t expect people to grasp things first time but at some stage those people need to be able to retain the information provided & carry out tasks unsupervised in order to “pay their way”.
Then there’s the experienced option. I guess sometimes trying to change someone’s “bad habits” or even alter the way they approach things, perhaps not wrong but because I am a terribly methodical person I have a system & I like to stick to it, isn’t a great option either. Then too It can work the other way too, maybe we/I see a different way to do things that works better.
Forgive the ranting - For me I simply didn’t have time or funds (perhaps not enough time) to carry on attempting to bring someone up to the standard of quality work that I was happy to let go out the door with my name on it. Too fussy? Maybe but hey, the standards I set are exactly why our shop is successful. Sure, if I lowered those standards a bit took on staff I would make a lot more money . . . & I could give my family the time, the Father, The Husband they deserve but I just couldn’t live with that.
This is a constant battle in my own head & each time it comes up I only end up grumpy thinking about it. Like I said though, there is that someone out there that will fit, you just have to find them.
Me, I always come back to the same conclusion - Working alone then I know the standards are kept & well, I don’t view success by the amount of money in the bank.
I wish you good luck in whatever path you decide to take, & if it’s to take on staff - I hope you find “the one”. :buffing:
Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2: