She can strip a decade of grime off a driveway in twenty minutes. What she cannot do, at least not without a knot forming in her stomach, is figure out whether her LLC's annual report is due this month or last. The pressure washing is the easy part. The business behind the pressure washing is the part nobody trained her for.
This is the quiet truth of the solopreneur economy. People go into business because they are good at something specific, cutting hair, baking, landscaping, cleaning, and then discover that being good at the craft was never the whole job. Waiting behind it is a second shift made of paperwork, deadlines, invoices, and follow-ups, none of which they signed up for and most of which they learn about the hard way.
