That is definitely a dream for many people. I think that if I was going to give it a go again it would definitely be with the intention of at some point employing people. That would probably alleviate most of the problems I was facing.
How long did it take you to get from solo-freelancer to having an agency? How was hiring people? Would love to hear more about your process.
I freelanced for about 4 years, last year august i got an office space. My first staff was actually a newbie, i had to teach him javascript, vue, he picked up nuxt.js and react by himself ( See our last project 2dotsproperties.com built with rails backend and nuxt frontend) . My second staff was a UI designer, he was great from the first day, although i still had to mentor him ( I was a sketch guy, he had only used XD we ended up switching to XD full-time).
Hiring people was hard man. I could only get newbies, so i had to train literately every one of my staffs by myself mostly during weekends we build side projects. Things has gotten smoother now, the old staffs trains the new guys.
That's really nice that you invested people who are now training people up though! I bet it has been so satisfying to see your staff grow in skillsets.
That is definitely a dream for many people. I think that if I was going to give it a go again it would definitely be with the intention of at some point employing people. That would probably alleviate most of the problems I was facing.
How long did it take you to get from solo-freelancer to having an agency? How was hiring people? Would love to hear more about your process.
I freelanced for about 4 years, last year august i got an office space. My first staff was actually a newbie, i had to teach him javascript, vue, he picked up nuxt.js and react by himself ( See our last project 2dotsproperties.com built with rails backend and nuxt frontend) . My second staff was a UI designer, he was great from the first day, although i still had to mentor him ( I was a sketch guy, he had only used XD we ended up switching to XD full-time).
Hiring people was hard man. I could only get newbies, so i had to train literately every one of my staffs by myself mostly during weekends we build side projects. Things has gotten smoother now, the old staffs trains the new guys.
That's really nice that you invested people who are now training people up though! I bet it has been so satisfying to see your staff grow in skillsets.
😊 Very satisfactory.