Being a Solo Practitioner is Not Easy

Being a Solo Practitioner is Not Easy

There are many entrepreneurs out there who are quite good at what they do, but often my hat goes off to the solo practitioner who is making it all come together. Why you ask? Well simple really; being a Solo Practitioner at anything well that is not easy. Why do people go solo? For lots of reasons, as maybe they are so good at something that they are in the top 1-2% and they know it and they simply cannot see themselves fixing others mistakes all day, as it will never be as good as if they did it them selves.

What most business people who are consultant types find very quickly is that good help is hard to find and only hangs around for a short period 2-3 years, while you teach them everything you know and then when they finally get it they move on as the average person in the United States for instance changes jobs every 3-4 years anyway?

Needless to say being a solo practitioner is hard work, but they also save the head aches by doing more of the work them selves. One thing I always noticed when hiring consultants was that if their wife answered the phone as their secretary or husband in many cases, that I generally had on my hands the best person for the job because they were solo practitioners and they were good at what they did. Consider this in 2006.