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See a lot of home run threads and getting started/new idea threads, but I'm wondering how many entrepreneurs have "sort of" made it here?

I've been building a small business marketing agency for around a decade. We'll prob do around 600k this year but no real profit (long story, working on it). I get paid 6-7k as a salary kind of like a normal job I guess.

Started doing some additional consulting work last year to make more money while we restructure the agency business model and now make about 6-7k/mo there as well.

I'm healthy, good marriage, generally doing well. But work is a lot, battling burnout, have a few regrets, etc. Not perfect but not terrible either.

Anyone else feel like their business aspirations have led to a life that kind of plays out more like you have a normal job give or take, vs the big fail / multimillion dollar exit dichotomy that is usually presented?

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[–] jamesishere@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Culture comes from the top. I give my employees amazing work life balance - fully remote, take the time off you need, no one is tracking you. Output is everything. I also work harder than everyone - the other executives and myself work 60 to 80 hour weeks, always. I don’t make my employees do this. But if you want your employees to care then you have to care. You can’t ask someone to work extra during crunch time if you aren’t also working. Hypocrisy is the easiest sin to spot and you must lead by example.

[–] Rational_Philosophy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

the other executives and myself work 60 to 80 hour weeks,

I always wonder how people do this and still have time for Reddit lmao.