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Growth Spurts Of The Disorderly Kind

© Lea Moore

Okay, so your business is doing fairly well. You put in 110 hours a week and fall into bed exhausted every night. Just a couple of months ago, you were strugging to pay the rent on your office and didn't know where you were going to come up with the funds to make the house payment.

Last month your steady clients increased from 7 to 29 and you are having trouble keeping up. Just yesterday you accepted a long-term contract from one of the biggest companies in town, to do their data processing and it is a $2500 a month job for the next 2 years. They even signed and exclusivity contract to ensure you would be the only one to get their business.

Now, the question is, "How are you going to complete the work when you are already in over your head." You're not ready to take on a full-time employee and you don't have the documents in place to make that happen. You have been working alone, out of a small, one-person office for the past six months and even though you have been putting in hundreds of hours to keep up with the workload, you can't depend it yet. So what are you goin to do?

Here are a couple of suggestions.

Sign up with your local colleges and vocational schools to offer an intership program to 3-4 students. Internship programs offer students an opportunity to utilize their growing skills and gain experience in an actual business setting, performing the tasks they will do when they graduate. You get the advantage of an employee with the most up to date skills. They get a bullet for their resume. And - best of all - it's free. All you have to provide is a place for them to work and something for them to do.

Contact your local Department of Human Services. All states and counties now have to offer some type of training program to welfare recipients to get them off the roles. You give someone a chance to earn precious job skills. In return, you receive the most basic office support. Generally, these positions will offer a person an opportunity to prove they can do the job, show up on time, and give them a character reference for future job hunting. You sign up for a six-month internship program and you have solved you troubles for at least half a year. Then you get a new person, or you hire the one who has been working for you and get reimbursed a portion of the wages you pay for the next 6-12 months.

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