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    * Are you a control freak?

    Lets be honest, if you run a web hosting site you run a business. Your business may or may not already have employees but I can assure you, you still hire people from payroll, taxes, design, marketing.

    Are you ready?

    Heres the question, are you a control freak?

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    I would like to think I'm not a control freak, just expect alot, LOL. I like things to be done a certain way. With my freelance, I am the business so I relay heavily on my reputation, not just online.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dallas - zoom active View Post
    Lets be honest, if you run a web hosting site you run a business. Your business may or may not already have employees but I can assure you, you still hire people from payroll, taxes, design, marketing.

    Are you ready?

    Heres the question, are you a control freak?
    How many employees do you oversee?

    I'm not so much a control freak. I ran a small operation for a little while, and everyone knew what to do and did it well. I never really needed to nit-pick at their work because they did a pretty solid job. So in that sense, wasn't a control freak.

    But then again, there were things that only I did and I did because I wanted to do them my way. So in that sense, a total control freak.
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    If it's not working the way I want it, then it's not working.

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    Very much of a control freak. I have anxiety disorder, so the slightest change that I didn't expect or the slightest thing getting out of hand causes extreme anxiety. I have medication for this, but have to be careful since the number of pills per day is limited, you can take maximum 4 (all working 2 - 3 hours) to avoid addiction. So there are situations where I have to abstain from taking medication and somehow make my way through an uncertain situation on own strength. When I am not in control of the situations that occur, I indeed panic. Since you cannot control other people, I find social situations extremely hard to handle.

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    I'm a control freak to the point that it holds me back. I've found myself delaying things that needed to be done relating to business because I had to do them myself.

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    Absolutely not. Organization freak maybe but control freak doesn't fit my spectrum. Now granted I do run into the occasional time where I have to redo someones work and then in the future I do important tasks that the individual would normally do. That or I fire the individual and do it myself till I find a replacement.

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    Can control freak delegate work? If not, then they can not be more successful than they are current am.

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    I definitely can be. I sometimes have to make myself relax and trust in others.

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    ehh not in the web hosting industry but back when I managed a store I was. I dont know why but it just makes me feel like I had the power and ruled the world XD
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