The unfun parts about running a business

Often times entrepreneurship and startups get glorified in the media and amongst those who haven’t gone through the journey yet. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there’s a better path to growth and starting a company in my opinion is the greatest thing you can do with your career. But yet, everyone talks about the glory and doesn’t really focus on the journey to get there.

Sophia and I are watching season 3 of The Bear and it’s one of my favorite TV shows. There was a flashback scene where the restaurant owner was talking about all the shitty parts about running a restaurant such as the toilet exploding constantly. I’ve never run a restaurant, but I can definitely relate to a lot of the shitty things that come along with running a business.

For example, I’ve been on the phone on and off nearly all morning with one of our banks trying to get someone access to our accounts. I’ve also had to manually download account statements for a visa application for one of our employees. All necessary and important things, but of course I’d rather be doing other tasks like generating revenue.

It all comes as part of the job though. As Mikey in The Bear said, it sucks but he wouldn’t want to be doing anything else.