When you are thinking about starting a business making concrete blocks, an important consideration is family. This may seem redundant or abundantly obvious, but I do not believe that to be the case. Especially since you are starting it in your garage, this is critical. If your spouse is not on board with the idea, this will be especially difficult.
Concrete block businesses have their own set of heartaches. There is no need to add to these by rashly pursuing a course of action that is doomed before it starts. If you start a concrete block business in the home, any person living in that home becomes a kind of defacto partner in that business, for this reason: they participate, willingly or unwillingly, in many of the pains associated with making the cement blocks. If you are a dad, and doing this business on the side after hours, your kids are robbed of some of that dad time they have come to expect, since you have to spend your time making the blocks that your customers have ordered. The same if you are a husband or wife. If, in addition to your normal job, you are taking on the concrete block orders, you have less time, but in many ways less mental and emotional energy, to devote to them. Now, every time your concrete block machine makes too much noise, or the neighbors complain, or the machine wakes the baby, this issue gets exacerbated. Now, instead of being an act of provision for your family’s future, it is a source of constant irritation.
Remember your partners, they will make or break your business.
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