You don't have to grow.

You don't have to take the tool belt off.

There's ways that you can survive and that you can make a good living without doing that.

We just think that we have to.

Welcome back, everyone, to Midweek Modern Craftman.

Hope you all are having a wonderful week.

Mine is busy.

It's a short week for me, but I'm getting a lot done.

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be, I've referred to myself as a belt on contractor.

And lately, I've been thinking a lot that it may, I may be closer to a self-performer as well. And that term has just

stuck with me and it's been in my head recently. A lot of people shy away from self-performing.

They feel that they've grown to the point where they can't self-perform or they want to subcontract

more work. And that's that's the definition of success for them where

they get to a point where they have enough work where they don't need to self perform all of it and

they could start subcontracting and I've tried that and I've done that and there's still certain

trades that I subcontract specialty trades that I don't have the manpower to do or the licensing

or the insurance to do but I like like to self-perform as many trades

as possible. For me, it's always, I enjoy the hands-on aspect of the project. It's been part of my

identity. It's how I stay connected so closely to my clients, to the craft. It does come with

tradeoffs. I can't be everywhere at once.

I at times have trouble getting into the office to maintain the business side of things.

I have to wear a tool belt.

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