Bricklayer to Blue-Collar Empire

Yeah, it's, it's, it's, I don't, I don't just leave it at home. And maybe that's a, that's a, you know, character defect of mine. I don't just leave work at home.

I, I work at home into the night. Like, most nights I can't, like, I, I can't sleep until I, you know, like, maybe I'm just like, festering on, on some set of financials that, like, I want to compare to last years. And, or maybe like I, I have to.

And yeah, luckily, luckily, you know, my girlfriend now, she, she, she's very accepting of that. And, you know, but, you know, it's not always, it's always this case like this, this thing can take over your life. And that's why when people ask me about doing what I do, you know, I always ask them, like, what, you know, how much, how much time do you want to put into this?

And, and sometimes I, I, I come to the conclusion, I tell them, maybe you should just invest in the stock market. Right? Like, maybe that's a better form of investing for you. Because this, this is, I've, I've lost lots of time with my kids growing up.

You know, I have a, I have an ex wife divorced. You know, I don't have a great, great bit of friends or social life for that matter. Like, this is, this is all I think about, you know.

And do you, do you think your, your divorce was because of your business time spent in business?

Oh, yeah. I mean, not the only reason, but it was, it wasn't helping anything, that's for sure. You know, because I definitely put, I put, you know, I've always been of the, of the mindset of like what, what am I willing to put into this that my competitors won't do? And, and you know, put family, family on the, on, on the, on the, on the back burner for sure.

You know, and because in my opinion, it's, it's like if this thing isn't working, you know, my family's not going to benefit from it and all my employees, families aren't going to benefit from it either. Right. So like it has to be right up there with health prayer, you know, it's top of the list.

And why not take the foot off the gas a little bit or hire more resources around you to absorb some of this? I mean, you're at a stage now where you could probably figure out how to do that.

Good. Yeah. Even if I hired more resources, I'd still look into it just as much.

So it's, it's a bit obsessive on your part.