Milestone for side business

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First off, congrats…that’s badass.

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Thank you

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Can you hire another engineer to do what you’re doing and expand it? You can run it like a side hustle but scale it up.

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I've strongly considered hiring a designer/drafter. The most time consuming thing I do that "erodes" my time value is drafting in Cad. There's some other high-level admin type stuff that a drafter could easily handle for me as well.

So, yes. I've been thinking strongly about it. Even if it takes 10-20% of my income, just the return of my time would be worth it.

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I've strongly considered hiring a designer/drafter. The most time consuming thing I do that "erodes" my time value is drafting in Cad. There's some other high-level admin type stuff that a drafter could easily handle for me as well.

So, yes. I've been thinking strongly about it. Even if it takes 10-20% of my income, just the return of my time would be worth it.

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As a small business owner, here's a suggestion. FWIW I don't know shite about drafting or CAD. But your first employee or 2 if you aren't supervising them and have little experience with them, you want to overhire, overpay, and over supervise them. Its pivotal to your business to have your first 2-3 employees be leaders of your business.

Or else its complete time suck of your time and you end up managing people instead of your business.

If you are doing that well, you really should highly consider scaling.

Consider the price you are asking, you may consider adding 10-20% and seeing what that does.

Its very possible you increase your price to make up for paying someone else to do it, and still come out the same.

Wonder if a site like Upwork would be good to find a part time freelancer

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I started a side business in contracting recently on top of my full time job. When I get done with work, I'm quoting jobs, lining up material and equipment, going to meet customers etc. .

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same….


I’m only 18 months in, but I need to find a long term strategy where I can eventually go all in and dump my 9-5. I feel I don’t have enough free time to dedicate to get my side business to that point. Having 3 kids under 5yo doesn’t help. So it’s hard to dedicate weekends.


Has to be a good feeling to cross that milestone.

How much time do you spend on your side gig while at your plant job?