I’ve been working with clients from all around the world for 8 years. Marketing, automation, production, outreach, design, tech - touched most of it at some point. And one thing I know for sure after all this time is that the gap between what people here earn and what’s actually possible working with the right clients is almost embarrassing. The money is real. Most people just haven’t seen it with their own eyes so when you talk about it, it doesn’t land the way you expect or they just feel overwhelmed. That’s where most of my problems start honestly. I can’t stick to one thing. Never could. I’ll be running something that’s making solid money and halfway through I’m already three ideas deep into something else. I know it’s a problem. But it’s also why I’ve ended up picking up so many different skills over the years because I genuinely couldn’t help myself from trying new things. The downside is I almost never take one thing to its full potential on my own. So I’ve tried bringing people in. The setup always made sense in my head. I find the opportunity, set things up, handle clients and the big picture stuff. Someone else handles the daily work in whatever they’re good at. Revenue split. Everyone makes more than before and the ceiling keeps going up as things grow. Thrice now it’s gone badly. First time I had figured out a way to pull in around 5 lakhs a month from an international company as a contractor. Got a close friend involved as a subcontractor, handed him the whole thing, stepped back. 60-40 split in his favour since he was doing the daily work. Few months in he started getting bothered that I wasn’t doing enough. One thing led to another, he tried to cut me out thinking he could handle everything alone. I let him try. He got fired two months later. The friendship didn’t make it either. Second time I had an AI automation service running at around 4 lakhs net profit a month. Brought another friend in to work alongside me. He eventually went off and started the exact same thing on his own. Last I heard he was job hunting. And same thing with an Video Editing agency that I started a year back. Brought in a friend, now he’s completely cut me out. started his own agency and took all the clients and I let him because I didn’t have anyone to handle the work. Communicated with the clients that I’m taking a break and my friend will be handing everything from now onwards. They are not liking his work. Everything is repeating again. I’m not writing this to make myself look like the victim or anything. I’m genuinely trying to understand where it keeps going wrong. Right now I have something working again and I’m honestly just tired of it. I want to move to bigger things but I’m scared to bring anyone in because I can’t afford to lose my only income source right now if it goes sideways again. And that fear has me stuck. The thing I keep coming back to is this - is what I’m asking for actually unfair? If someone is making more than they were before, and there’s real room for that number to grow, does it actually matter if I’m not sitting beside them working every day? I set it up, I handle things when it matters, I’m the reason the opportunity exists. But I’ve been made to feel like I’m somehow taking advantage. More than once. And I genuinely don’t know if that’s a me problem, a communication problem, or just how people here think about work where effort is only real if someone can see it happening. Finding the right person has also just been hard on its own. Everyone I meet is either fresh out of college with more confidence than experience, or they have massive dreams but no real understanding of what execution actually takes. Very few people sit somewhere in the middle - skilled, grounded and willing to back themselves on a percentage instead of a fixed salary. Maybe I need to stop working with friends. Maybe I need actual written agreements from day one. Maybe my whole approach needs rethinking. Or maybe the right person is just rare. Would you work with someone like this - someone who brings the opportunity, handles clients and growth, takes a cut, but isn’t grinding beside you every single day? Honest answers only please.