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From the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, this is the Entree Leadership podcast, where I take calls from leaders like you about what it takes to win at any stage of business and leadership.

I'm Dave Ramsey, your host with over 30 years of experience leading in the trenches right alongside you.

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entreleadership.com slash ask or call and leave a voicemail at 844-944-1070. That's 844-9-4-1070. John is in Columbia, South Carolina. Hi, John. Welcome to the Entree podcast.

What's up? How you doing, Dave? Better than I deserve. How can I help?

Man, I kind of, it's kind of a long question.

Can I can, my main question is I feel stuck in my father's business. I'm 23 years old.

We got seven team members, including myself, and me and my wife about a year ago just opened

up our own small business. Can I kind of tell you the backstory and you

give, you shed some guidance on, you know, moving forward? Sure. So like I said, it's kind of a long

story, but anyways, I've been working for my father for two to three years now. The biggest thing

with it is part of my pay depends on how the store performs, even though I have no say-so on what the employees do or the day-to-day operations of the store.

I'm technically a project, the title on me is a project manager.

But my position at the store, I'm doing two to three people's jobs as a one-man show.

I've been doing it for the past two to three years.

And every conversation me and my father have had regarding this issue is that his payroll

is just too dang expensive.

And that, you know, if we had more work,

then he could hire somebody on to help me out. So I kind of feel overworked in that aspect, but kind of going back to the small business that me and my wife have started, that revenue is only,

I mean, we kind of got it out to the masses at the beginning of this year, and the revenue has only been about $40,000 this year.

I think it's pretty good for, you know, word to word to word, word to mouth.

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