Opportunities are there all the time, but because of HR admin and onerous employment laws, most of those opportunities are ignored.
My aunt wants her house painted?
In the old days I would have gone to the local paint shop, got a recommendation for a good freelance painter and his assistants and gone and given a quote.
If I got the job her next door neighbor would have asked if I could repair her driveway, the old man across the road would have needed his fence fixed and the widow down the road wants the leak in her roof sorted out and so on.
Today I would tell her to look in the yellow pages for a painting contractor and she will wind up paying the earth for the priveledge. The others jobs will remain undone.
If this was my business, outsourcing HR would be part of the solution, but so would outsourcing the labour.
There were builders/developers/project managers who employed no staff, but who provided work and paid well.
They would calculate the job down to the finest detail and then subby the work to labourers to clear site, wetwork contractors, plumbers, roofers, electricians, tilers, decorators, etc.
But without the core staff to do the clearing, foundations, floor and wetwork the rest cant get the subcontract either, so the whole thing falls down, because the labourers cant be employed to do a simple but well paid job then move on without all the other BS.
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