14/10/2026
You hired someone to make your life easier.
Now you have two jobs.
The first week after hiring your new employee, you start wondering whether you've made a terrible mistake.
Not because they're bad at their job.
They're actually quite good.
But every task that used to take you 20 minutes now takes an hour because you have to explain how everything works.
You show them where the files are kept, how to communicate with customers, why certain things must be done a particular way and which client gets upset when you take too long to reply.
Then comes the question you weren't prepared for.
“Boss, why do we do it like this?”
You open your mouth to answer.
Then realise you've been doing it that way for five years without ever questioning it.
Alamak.
You hired someone hoping to free up your time. Instead, you're spending your mornings teaching, afternoons checking their work and evenings catching up on everything you couldn't finish.
At some point, you start thinking it might be easier to just do everything yourself.
And perhaps it would be.
For now.
But a few weeks later, something interesting happens.
A customer calls with a problem. Before you can get involved, your employee has already handled it.
You ask what happened.
“Settled already, boss.”
You pretend to be very cool about it.
Inside, you're thinking, wah, not bad leh.
That's when you begin to appreciate something about hiring people.
You're not just paying someone to complete tasks. You're investing time in helping another person become capable of doing things without you.
And sometimes, they'll even find a better way of doing them.
Of course, tomorrow they'll probably ask you another 15 questions.
Never mind lah. That's part of the process.
Who taught you how to lead?
