the 46-year-old Jacob Lejbowicz, like many other self-employed workers felt obliged to turn the key on for a while.
But instead of that, sit down and feel sorry for themselves and hope for state aid for his consulting company he has chosen to take the matter into their own hands.
Therefore, he has changed lederskabsbøger and a light blue shirt out with drills and orange helmet.
“I started to think out of the options. I would not be dependent on the state to support me or to make sure I got through it here. When I saw that you could apply for state aid, thought I, ‘not, now I have fucking done myself all these years. So why would I not also be able to take this bump in the road?'” says Jacob Lejbowicz.
When he started his company, which offers consulting in leadership up five years ago, he had not just thought that a worldwide pandemic would put the business down, just as it went best of all.
But he’s not going to cry over spilt milk and lost customers. He has thought out to ensure a earnings.
And he has done so by finding an alternative source in the form of a complete brancheskift.
“this is The first time I work on a construction site. It is quite new for me. What I’m doing right now, is to go and drill holes in the 12 hours of the day,” says Jacob Lejbowicz and says further:
“one week with hard physical work in 40 hours will I earn the same as I could earn in a day by just standing and talking.”
According to him, it has to work on a building site gave him a much better understanding of what he works with everyday. Namely, how to create true job satisfaction with trust-based management.
“It is also a kind of field-study for me. So I can see that the way leaders are working on does not support it, I come up with in my business usually. They do it in a completely different way. It is exciting,” says Jacob Lejbowicz.
For him it has not been an opportunity to ask the state for support, since there are so many alternative opportunities to earn money themselves, he says, and tells about the time, the company has not yet earned the money and he had to drive around in Sweden and collect trash to earn a living.
“I’ve never been too fine to just do what it needs to,” says Jacob Lejbowicz.
And sikkerhedshjelmen and the drill will not be put on the shelf right now. Jacob Lejbowicz expect the first to be able to return to his consulting business, when the summer is over.
So in the next many weeks it’s more hard physical work for the 46-year-old contractor, says that he in principle could have succeeded without his new profession as a construction worker.
“Actually, I did not have to do it. I have a line of credit of 100,000 crowns, but I think it would be a shame to start using it. So you might as well just get something out of it,” he says.
Jacob Lejbowicz is a member of a Facebook group called ‘uk round table for soloselvstændige, freelancers and micro-enterprises’. And here posted he a Saturday, a lookup, because he was a bit tired of the mentality that he found in there.
“All the notices I had read, was about, ‘how I can get the support, what I can get’. It was all about it. And I thought, ‘whew, have we really exhausted all the possibilities in order to cope with the self?'” he says, and concludes:
“It is indeed like it, there is to be self – employed- you are doing it yourself.”
“I’m completely with you on that there is someone who does not have the option of alternative earnings, and they must of course have the support. But we are just someone who might be able to think out of the box. You can do as I have done: change the industry completely so you can clear it yourself. The mentality seemed I just needed to, so it might inspire someone to do something for ourselves.”
