[keiferski]

Just a small tip, but often these things are received better if you frame them as helping someone else and not as “going off on your own.”

So, if possible, describe your concrete company as being “your cousin’s/brother’s/friend’s company” (if such a person exists) that he needs help with one day a week, rather than the somewhat adversarial phrasing of, “I started a separate company and need to work there more and at this contracting job less.”

Whether dealing with employers or anyone else, it always helps to remember that they don’t have as much information about the situation as you do. Subsequently they will take whatever you give them and craft a story around it that may or may not be what’s actually happening.

[7hr0w2w2y9988]

Thanks for this perspective, this is helpful