#2169 - Failure Friday: “My virtual assistant was a fan of quiet quitting…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the founder of an advisory service who hires his first assistant. The relationship starts well, but as the founder stops paying attention, things go downhill. Dun dun dun….
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:38.4 | Have you heard the one about the virtual assistant who just kind of stopped working, |
| 0:43.2 | stopped being an assistant virtually or otherwise? Well, it's not really a joke. It sounds like |
| 0:48.8 | a set up to a joke, but it's actually the introduction to our story today. Today is a failure |
| 0:54.0 | Friday story. Welcome to Side Usual School. We're going to hear today from a listener who's also |
| 0:59.6 | a founder of an advisory service. He heard that delegation was like this cool thing you're supposed to do. |
| 1:05.2 | You got an outsource. You got to find somebody to help compensate for your weaknesses or just do |
| 1:09.6 | the things that you don't want to do so that you can focus on your strengths, etc. etc. I'm sure you've |
| 1:14.4 | heard of that before and it sounds great, but does it always work that way? Well, in fact, it actually |
| 1:19.0 | doesn't always work that way. Unfortunately, it's all too common for it to go a different direction. |
| 1:23.7 | There's lots of other directions that can go, not the one that you were hoping for. As I said, |
| 1:28.1 | this is part of Failure Friday, a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 1:32.2 | and of course, Failure, all of the things that go wrong. We're going to hear this story from Jack. |
| 1:38.4 | Jack is from Milwaukee. He runs that advisory service in his spare time when he's not working in |
| 1:43.2 | finance during the day. Now, since Jack is a busy guy, as mentioned, he assumed that getting |
| 1:48.2 | some help would be a good idea and maybe it still will be at some point, but this first go around |
| 1:53.6 | it didn't go so well. Alright, let's hear the story from him. |
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