Today is one of those "breath of fresh air" kind of day. I was getting progressively burnt out until I said "enough". This is what happened.Sometimes I will offer my services as a manager/CEO, especially for new startups. I like it, facing different challenges and see people become more professional and fulfilled... well, it's good fun.There's this startup born out of two friends with a passion for making pasty. They have made lots of mistakes (overstocking, 0 organization, big wastes of money, working hard but not smart, and even got scammed 6k$ from one of these "buy my business idea and get rich" kind of thing...), but they've also had some success so there's still a bit of fuel left to get this thing flying.They are both inexperienced, but of course I'm fine with that, everyone willing can learn anything. So I'm constantly sharing articles of stuff they need to know about, free books, videos etc. all things business. But that's the kind of thing I'm here for and I really put the time and the effort.One of them is a bit too much of a workaholic (but improving), takes it seriously. She isn't the fastest learner but she is in the right track. Now the other one... jesus christ, let me tell you about the other one.She is grossly incompetent all around. But I've been there, you know? However, as usual, the big problem is her 0 awareness of that fact. She often fetishizes about luxury, money, power... all of it, she thinks, will just rain on her because of her creative genious. I've explained the harsh reality to her many times now: you won't change her mind, she's not listening, doesn't care. She can't concentrate more than 5 minutes on reading a work-related article and asks for summaries.Because she is attractive and superficially fun, she has a big social circle, albeit completely shallow. So I get to hear how amazing is the house of this friend the millionare, and that other thing from that other person that made millions doing X and so on. To top it off, she thinks that any wild concept that a millionaire says is automatically true because "they know how to make money" 🤦♂️ When I asked about her "friend" I learned that he'd been trying to be a business person, failing everytime, ending up bankrupt and in his last unwise attempt was investing his last 3k$ in a random external business. Luck would make said business skyrocket and now he is a millionaire with a helicopter and all that, and terribly alone, trying to impress people with his toys and big empty mansion (of course, she was impressed).Back to our partner, the soon-to-be millionare, is consistently wasting time "designing" things nobody asked for or needed, asking her friends to critique her designs on little things to improve, while I'm tired of pointing out the tasks she has on her plate that really are important. This project is tight on money (their money btw) and she can't even bring herself to understand the very basics of business finance before hosing stupid ideas with said money. Because she wastes time on the things she like to do, she feels like is putting in the work. And from time to time she'll complain to me that sales aren't coming through. It's frustrating.I was getting burnt out, a bit more than I usually allow, because of her stupidity and absolute deadweight. After taking a few day's break everything became clear: she needs to go. I explained this issue even stronger than before, this time only to the other partner, her friend, and I'm not moving a finger until she is gone. It's been 6 months of this and lots of understanding and patience and guidance, she just doesn't have what it takes.But they have been friends before this so the other girl, also going all in on this project, now faces a huge dilemma. At least she agrees with me on her gross incompetence. However I don't know what she'll decide to do exactly, as kicking her out would be mayhem for their relationship.I'm sad we are stuck here with a bad pronostic, because there is good money in this niche, and we have what we need. But I can't put wings on an elephant and make it fly. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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