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I have my own IT consulting company and the growth has been phenomenal, but I'm extremely exhausted working pretty much 24/7 when I'm not sleeping for the past few week, as I'm working on closing a huge project, much bigger than anything I've ever done before.
I feel like I have to hire someone, but I don't know who/how.
I have a technical background and I'm (reasonably) good with people, so I can do everything. I juggle multiple clients, sometimes I'm a tech lead, making technical decisions, sometimes I'm a project manager, sometimes I'm a salesman.
I once hired a project manager as a freelancer (billed by the hour), but it wasn't a good experience. I felt that he lacked the technical background to give proper feedback to the clients or discuss with the developers.
The value I bring to the table is that I can challenge what the developers say, I make sure the client really gets the maximum value for their money.
But if I hire a developer, I'm worried that they don't want to work like this.
Most good developers I've met know their own value. They want to work on a single, long-term project, ideally undisturbed without having to talk to clients much. Just sitting in front of their PC by themselves, not talking to anyone, not juggling different projects.
And then again, sometimes (but this is rather rare) I may even need a UX designer, who will talk directly to the client.
As this is rather rare, I think in such a case, I could still hire a UX designer on an hourly basis, until it makes sense to have someone around full time.
What would you do? Hourly rates are about $100-150 in my market, while hiring someone full time would drop the cost per hour to about $50 including social security/benefits. But labor laws are strict, so after the first 6 months or so, I couldn't just fire an employee. And it's generally very uncommon for people to get fired even during those first 6 months.
Also, there is no unemployment and people typically have to give 3 month's notice in their existing job, so if I decide to hire an employee, it would probably take some time before they could start anyway.
What would you do? Is their a book or website you can recommend on this topic? I really have to get better at delegating before I get a heart attack.
I feel like I have to hire someone, but I don't know who/how.
I have a technical background and I'm (reasonably) good with people, so I can do everything. I juggle multiple clients, sometimes I'm a tech lead, making technical decisions, sometimes I'm a project manager, sometimes I'm a salesman.
I once hired a project manager as a freelancer (billed by the hour), but it wasn't a good experience. I felt that he lacked the technical background to give proper feedback to the clients or discuss with the developers.
The value I bring to the table is that I can challenge what the developers say, I make sure the client really gets the maximum value for their money.
But if I hire a developer, I'm worried that they don't want to work like this.
Most good developers I've met know their own value. They want to work on a single, long-term project, ideally undisturbed without having to talk to clients much. Just sitting in front of their PC by themselves, not talking to anyone, not juggling different projects.
And then again, sometimes (but this is rather rare) I may even need a UX designer, who will talk directly to the client.
As this is rather rare, I think in such a case, I could still hire a UX designer on an hourly basis, until it makes sense to have someone around full time.
What would you do? Hourly rates are about $100-150 in my market, while hiring someone full time would drop the cost per hour to about $50 including social security/benefits. But labor laws are strict, so after the first 6 months or so, I couldn't just fire an employee. And it's generally very uncommon for people to get fired even during those first 6 months.
Also, there is no unemployment and people typically have to give 3 month's notice in their existing job, so if I decide to hire an employee, it would probably take some time before they could start anyway.
What would you do? Is their a book or website you can recommend on this topic? I really have to get better at delegating before I get a heart attack.
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