Comments on: Small Business Entrepreneur Route to Financial Independence https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/small-business-entrepreneur-route-financial-independence/ Actionable Insights from Small Business CPAs Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:10:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Steve Kasarda https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/small-business-entrepreneur-route-financial-independence/#comment-4720 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:06:58 +0000 http://evergreensmallbusiness.com/?p=5163#comment-4720 Steve
Regarding step #5 I have after 12 years in a small business finally found myself able to “check out”, although only on a couple of months basis.
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After being discouraged by family (not directly involved in the business) from accepting a buy out offer I finally hired one of my very part time workers as a full time manager and am amazed at how quickly I was able to move into the passenger seat as opposed to the drivers seat. (although he may think I am still trying to hold the steering wheel)

We are a small manufacturing business in the Marijuana industry (not directly related to the end product) and having a manufacturing background I still enjoy the logistics and customer interaction end of the business leaving the labor and everyday hands on part to my manager.
As I write this email I am in my motorhome in the desert of SW Arizona watching the sun fill up my batteries and answering a couple of calls a day from customers and a daily call with the manager to insure that things are moving along well back up in SW Washington where I hear they are having a quite a bit of wind and rain.

I have enjoyed reading your blog for the last year and like the fact that you seem to show both sides of the coin to potential entrepreneurs
. Would you consider an article on how freeing it can be finding a manager to take over the day to day. I’ve had to figure it out for myself and would have started thinking about hiring someone to take over a long time ago had I know how freeing it is. Seems sometimes though we need to be introduced to such an idea before we can start to process and consider it so I’m only suggesting such an article to maybe introduce others to the idea and maybe get them thinking about it too.
Thanks for all the time you put into this blog. I had one once and the grind for daily content got old after only a few months.
Steve K
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