So to start this off I’d like to say that I have an “unofficial partnership” with my mentor. We both own our own companies but (we will call him J) doesn’t always see eye to eye. J owns and operates a painting and renovations company and I own a painting company. We both paint buildings. I’ve moved fully into commercial and J has always had steady income from residential. There are a few weeks or a month or two where J needs work and I’ve been able to help out with that. We both work at the same pay rate and sometimes we even don’t pay each other for smaller items. These items would be more petty than anything better just left the way it is. The most concerning part about this is J is 26M and I am 22M and it seems like J just doesn’t want anything to do with my business ideas. I feel as if J doesn’t respect some of the ideas I have in mind. Lately it’s been hard to find good honest help and I brought up that we may just have the bite the bullet and team up with some good honest subcontractors and rebrand as a GC. We have the connections to do so or could at least build those connections if needed. I get a very vague response followed by no follow up or questions. Seems like J didn’t even listen to what I had to say. It’s like J would rather stress himself out about getting help and just complain about it rather than change it. I also brought up to J that maybe he should consider subbing out all residential jobs and move forward into commercial jobs and focus more on the things that yield a better profit margin. 6 weeks and counting waiting on a true decision as to what he wants to do. I even went through and offered to set him up with the free program that I use to find bigger commercial jobs and it’s like he won’t make the time to do this. For reference this would take a maximum of 4 hours start to finish. This is including services that he would otherwise have to pay for if J and I weren’t so close. For example you can punch in information about your company, services offered, logo, company bio, etc. not that he’s refused to do this but he has put it off and even through my strongest efforts to get the conversion started it seems to be pretty far out still. I just don’t know what to do anymore because it seems that even the job market seems to be pretty much crap as well. I’ve looked at the pay just to be a worker for a company doing the same things and averaged around 20$ per hour. Sounds great until you realize that it’s not 2010 anymore. Things are so expensive now that I feel like even if I gave this up I would be doing much worse with a regular job. I’m trying and I’m sure many people are just like I am but I’m tired of just barely getting by. Something has to change!
