kc said “messed around at a variety of things for about twelve years before starting a business which I still own today, although I only work about six hours a week, mostly from my home. I have employees to do most of the work and all the things difficult for the “ADD compromised.” helpful, thanks.
I have always had a lot of talents, but couldn’t find a job that really allowed me to use them all. So the urge or inclination to do something else would always start to present itself. The official job usually got easy and boring for me, or there would be one aspect that I just couldn’t figure out and that would totally stress me out trying. I have never been fired, the urge to do something else would manifest before I ever completely lost interest, so I have never been out of a job except by choice. I’m also allergic to authority, and don’t work well without structure.
I finally found the job that suits me, working for myself, doing a lot of different and creative things, flexible hours, capitalizing on some of my weaknesses in other jobs (like – I always wanted to do THAT job), and capitalizing on skills that I never got to use in other jobs (like web and print design, for example). I’m kind of embarrassed to post about it. But posting helps me recognize that I did eventually find a job that suits me and that I’m good at. I just don’t want to grow it so I have the responsibility of other staff because I recognize that I’m a lousy supervisor/manager (I’m not very good at managing myself) or the responsibility of a big commercial lease.
I’ve gone through the exercise of looking at what I do in my business and seeing if I can hire someone or farm it out, and so far the answer to that is a big NO, except for the parts that my husband is willing to help with. We had an employee-of-the-year luncheon yesterday for the two of us 
(not sure who won the award).
I think the problem for me is that if I get others to do the work, I’ll lose focus on the business because I’ll want to be doing something else. My business IS the something else I would have been distracted by 
But the other side of that is that I don’t know how to do “down-time”.
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