Termyn8or
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As having been in business with a partner with whom I also lived I have to say it's a bad idea. This was a long time ago and I'm still surprised that we never shot each other.
I only know of one situation where something like this worked out. The owners of Wellman & Griffith are a Husband/Wife team who have been doing it for decades. It's a very upscale electronics place, the kind of place you need not go unless you have a black card. The antitheses of Walmart, and I think that is somewhat of an understatement. They tend to stay away from each other at work. Other than that I am not sure how they work it out, but apparently they do.
Even in a temporary partnership with friends, ala Jack and I remodeling a house, it wears on the best of friendships. And that is even under the best of circumstances. We did quite a few, and the rule was whoever got the job ran the job. In other words there has to be a boss and that would be the one who answers to the customer. We did work it out and thinking about it, that situation has analogiies to a switch relationship.
The switch relationship is probably hard enough to manage in the long term, but when you throw work into the mix, I think you're not just asking for trouble, you are begging for it.
And add the fact that no matter how good of a job you have, you get to a certain age when you just don't want to be there. I could have a job sitting on my ass drinking beer at the Taj Mahal and still want to get home. Why ? Because it is my domain. But even that doesn't work out 100% logically because even if I were boss I wouldn't want to be there.
To this day i have no idea how Jeff an Peg of Wellman & Griffith have maintained for so long. They might have strict rules against talking shop after hours or something like that. Next time I see them perhaps I'll ask. It would make a good case study. In fact such information might be valuable today because in this FUBARed economy, there are likely to be some strange bedfellows so to speak, in business together in this country, to simply make ends meet.
But my contention at this time remains, if you can avoid working with people you know, it is probably best.
Just my two cents. (now will someone please tell me the damn Alt+XXXX code for the cents sign ? )
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