The daily grind

In my opinion, one of the hardest parts about work especially at a startup is the daily grind.

We get to do some awesome things at startups like build new products or take on interesting projects often. Those jobs are hard in the sense that you want to do well and they take a lot of thinking. However, they’re usually intellectually stimulating and I look forward to doing those projects.

The daily grind on the other hand is having to do the same thing day in and day out. Unfortunately, you don’t get the luxury of hiring people to take these roles as they don’t warrant a full time position at a startup. So it falls on your plate.

I’m talking about reviewing the CRM and pipeline every morning. Reviewing all inbound leads. Answering inbound contacts. Putting together stats for the broader team. These are the hard tasks as they are monotonous and you just have to grind through them on a daily or weekly basis.

These are the tasks I see a lot of people who don’t come from startups struggle with. They think they are above it and tend to ignore the daily grind tasks.