Self Employed - lack of motivation of others

[ClawsandEffect]

I'm in a few public forums for the self employed. A couple of people in the forum asked for suggestions of where to find work and I gave them the names of a few agencies.

They've since emailed me and asked for website links for these agencies.

I did a quick Google and using the info I gave them, these agencies were at the top of the Google search.

AIBU to think that if they're self employed, they should have a bit of gumption and not rely on some internet random (me!) to do their research for them? I could understand if there were no easily found links, but LITERALLY at the top of the Google search list.

I think they're just lazy. If you need spoon feeding every lead, maybe self-employment isn't for you? I could understand if they were friends I was helping out.

I wouldnt have given them the links.

I would have told them the links are available.

Hate people who expect to be spoon fed

I just ignored the messages. I just think if you don't have a bit of gumption, you're not capable of the hustle needed for self employment.

A lot of people get by through just acting like a baby until someone else sorts it out for them.

I agree and, in my business, we can usually spot the business owners that won’t last 5 years!
Cloud cuckoo land some businesses.

I've just checked my emails, and one of them, a bloke, emailed me 3 years ago asking exactly the same question. So he's now TWICE read the agency names, and not once thought to do an online search!

How he hasn't gone out of business yet I don't know.

I've been self employed for a long time and I've noticed this a lot recently. People are getting sold on the idea of work from home, run your own business, as if it's a get rich quick scheme. They want someone to provide them with everything and ask silly simple questions they should be able to figure out on their own. They won't be successful without work ethic and without being able to take initiative

Totally agree! All of this searching for passive income. Passive income comes from (mostly) inherited wealthy. The rest of us have to graft for it.

Absolutely agree OP

I think this is why most self employed don't last, it needs a lot of proactively and sorting things out ourselves.
Or outsourcing them to a suitable professional e.g. accountant

Also agree there's a lot of posts out there about how easy it is which are usually MLMs or scammy 'data entry from home' sites that have their own agenda. It's really not that easy.

I've been going 10 years but still have to remind myself to be proactive and keep that leads pipeline / self promotion going. As this is the bit I hate! I could Google a few leads myself though, how lazy of them