The Mistake of Hiring, The Compassion of Firing, And Why I Won’t Do SMB Consulting.   Get ready for a boot in the ass rant. The compassionate thing to do is fire a wrong hire Firing is the result of a bad hire Very little thought goes into the hiring process You have a business where you have spent 2 to 5 years building up on your own and now you need to hire. Now I would dare to say that 90% or more solo operator have never hired nor fired anyone in their life.   90% are winging it. You are now making between 150K and 250K and need to hire your first tech that you are planning to pay between 27k and 36K per year You first instinct is going to be hire a tech with experience because you don’t know how to hire and you have no training program in place. Nor do you have the time nor patience to create one and train a person from zero because you are up to ears in alligators and need a person that can hit the ground running. Since you also have no experience training nor managing you want a person that will manage themselves so you pay production because  if they are motivated you wont have to mange them you will begin to manage by abdication rather than by delegation. Here are the potential pitfall 3 techs in and you have a motley crew. And I hear an owner say they are running me ragged and I can’t get them to do what I want. Your monkeys your zoo. Here is the problem with techs with experience. If they have worked for a crappy company for 1 to 3 years, you will inherit all the bad training and bad habits. If they have worked for a bad company for more than 3 years and are good they are burned out working 12 hour a day and want to slow down but because they are making 5k per month they want you to pay them the 5k on half the production. You wont pay for a coach or consultant to help you in this area, you won’t take a course on how to do this properly you wont allow anyone to tell you ho to to run a business which you have no idea how to run because you have never done it and your ego is in the way. #2 is you won’t spend the money to do it right because you say you can’t afford it. You are about to make the single most important decision to hire a tech, to entrust your good name and hard work a single person could cost you 50k between salaries and mistakes and you tell me I cant invest $2000.00 make a good hire, train and develop. But you will spend that every month or more on marketing to acquire more customers. You are penny wise and pound foolish. You think that a free ad on indeed is going to produce a quality candidate and that you will get a flood of resumes from qualified candidates that are drooling to work for you. Your delusional. With a right process you will have to spend a minimum of $500 per month on ads for the next 2 to 6 months in some markets to get a qualified applicant that you will interview. Hiring is like dating I cant spend that and you will get impatient with the process. Most business owners behave like men that just got separated and need a woman right now not misses right just miss right now and make the wrong selection over and over again and say there just aren’t any good employees out there. You cant sleep around and expect to find a good one. On top of that you want to offer them what amounts to just over minimum wage because you can’t fat...