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Hello, this is Yasui, a solo business owner running a company that mainly inspects high-pressure gas equipment.
Lately, I’ve been mentally worn out from thinking about so many things.
What is my work? What is my company’s work? What is “work” in the first place?
Doing what you’re good at and doing “anything and everything” are often contradictory.
And within that “anything and everything” are high-risk, high-stress tasks.
Personally, I’m not someone who can do a ton of different things.
Most of what I’m good at is work that one or two people can handle—
and that’s actually the type of work I really enjoy.
It doesn’t bring in huge revenue or profit, but including the relationships with customers,
I usually feel genuinely satisfied.
But as the job size grows, I start taking on tasks that I myself don’t have the knowledge for.
That means relying on partner companies or hiring new contractors.
And that inevitably builds stress.
It’s been happening more often lately, so I started asking myself:
“Why do I feel this way?”
I eventually arrived at one answer:
Maybe I just want to maintain the status quo.
Writing “I take on work even when I don’t fully understand it” may sound misleading,
and I don’t love putting it this way.
But realistically speaking, even other businesses have parts they don’t fully understand.
They rely on subcontractors or outside experts too.
In that sense, I’m operating under the same conditions as everybody else.
(How people decide whether something is worth paying for varies,
but that’s another topic.)
The stress level of familiar work versus unfamiliar work is totally different.
Unfamiliar jobs require full-throttle brainpower, and that’s exhausting.
They also often take more time.
So naturally, you start thinking, “This just isn’t worth it.”
But then I thought:
Wasn’t every job unfamiliar at the beginning?
Everyone starts as a beginner.
Every task is “first-time” at some point.
But as you keep doing them, even things you’re not good at gradually become manageable,
and eventually the quality evens out.
Some people say that when you receive a new project,
even if you don’t have experience,
you shouldn’t refuse it right away—
first, “take it home and think.”
Take it on, struggle with it, sweat mentally, fail, try again, fail again,
and slowly learn to handle it.
Maybe that’s how businesses grow.
Challenges include failure.
But if the fruit at the end is big enough,
and you can enjoy that fruit for a long time,
then looking at things from a long-term perspective might be useful.
So when someone asks, “Can you do this?” or “Can you handle that?”
I want to at least try.
If my own hands are full, I’ll rely on others.
I’ll ask for help.
Little by little…
I want to increase the number of people who can support me.
Gradually, I’m beginning to understand what it really means
to entrust work to others—
especially now that I’m already full just being a supervisor-and-player on one job site.
Ask someone who’s good at what you’re not good at.
For now, that feels like the right answer.
I like doing everything myself,
but to provide good work,
I’ll probably need to operate more like that moving forward.
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