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by dyingkneepad 265 days ago
Besides the arguments other people gave, delegating the 'everyday tasks' to this other person takes time. You'll have to invest some hours to save some hours. If they wanna do stuff for you, you have to give them the information and resources they'd need to do that. For a lot of stuff, it may be faster to simply do it yourself.

For example, I "delegate" tax preparation to an accountant, but the amount of time I spend giving them the information they need and answering their questions is probably 70% of the amount of time I would spent filling the tax myself. If my situation wasn't so complicated, I would deal with it myself (I hire them for the risk mitigation regarding my incompetence, not for saving time).