Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do and not because you want to but because you need to – you need to do it for no one else but YOU and perhaps no one but you understands. I fired a friend today because sometimes you have to give up on people, not because you don't care but because they don't... I'll just leave it at that, ya.
Today I fired a friend and hired another. The one didn't exactly balance out the other but it surely came pretty darn close!!!
Back when I first started Flipside Fitness I basically did it to help make more of a positive community among us women, offering them healthier alternatives to the regular bar scene and whatnot. Then, when it was decided that Snickers and I would start our own boxing club, the idea of taking my original intentions to a more extreme level entered my head. Not only could I give them healthier alternatives, like an exercise/social group, but I could possibly give them an alternative to being an ESL teacher! Tonight this alternative became a reality and I hired my first foreign worker – very cool. Ok, so he’s not a she and thus obviously not one of my Flipside Fitness females, but he’s the boyfriend of one and he fits exactly what we’re looking for! He will be teaching five of the ten crossfit circuit classes we’ll be offering and another friend of mine – 4Man-C – will be possibly working full time for us, working as an assistant and teaching the other five classes. 4Man-C is eager to work with us full time but paying someone full time will cost us as much as our rent. Having said this though, our rent isn’t much but without knowing how many members we’ll have and if we can even afford to hand over that chunk of cash, I feel uneasy taking that jump and hoping for the best. I'm confident that our crew of four will work awesome together but I'm not sure if I can afford them all right now. I need both of these extra workers equally as much and I know that 4Man-C is fulltime-or-nothing. The notion that he'll quit his job and just work for us at the boxing club is a lot to digest too because I'm trying my hardest to keep it business and not mix in my personal opinions or feelings here. I've got a couple of days to talk about it with Snickers but that's just another one of million thoughts crowding my head right now.
Ahhhh... "just do it because you enjoy it", as Snickers always says. I am enjoying it though. I do love the pressures and craziness of opening our own boxing club -- attending meetings I am left guessing if I understood what they said and ordering around with contractors and workers like they know what I'm saying. It's been challenging to say the least but it's all a part of the story. You can't skip a chapter to get to the end, you have to go through the whole story. I like our story -- some of it may be lost in translation but it's been pretty awesome. The friends that have shown up to help out or bring us coffee, the local businesses who have given us discounts or stopped by to lend some free work, and the workers who have just really been working so incredibly hard for us -- it's all been such an eye-opener and just so cool.
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