🔫 I'm getting fired

#071

Jack Ellis
February 16, 2025

Someone I follow—who built a successful online education business—once said:

Fire yourself from at least two jobs every year. Otherwise, you don’t have a business… You have a job.

Olly Richards

So, to build a business, that’s exactly what I am doing—firing myself.

(Though if you ask Krystallo, she’ll say that she fired me.)

Now, whether I’m really getting fired from a ‘job’ is debatable—‘tasks’ might be the more accurate word.

But since ‘job’ can also mean ‘task’ (tarea)—not just your profession or ‘role’ (puesto de trabajo)—I guess that means I’ve been fired from jobs—plural.

Either way, I’m out of admin.

I have no reason to be upset about it.

My performance? Fine. But my attitude?

Lacking, shall we say.

And I knew it.

So, from now on, you might start receiving emails from:

📩 admin@crystalclearenglish.es

They’re here to keep things running smoothly—handling invoices, attendance, certificates, and whatever else you need.

But don’t worry, we’ll be in copy.

And as for me? I’m happy. I’ve freed up time.

I’m getting fired!

Having tasks taken away from you is great

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This week’s three tips:

SOMETHING TO AVOID 🫣

🤦🏻‍♀️ “He hasn’t to do it”

You’re looking to translate no tiene que, but the above doesn’t sound right. One way of expressing this idea would be to say she hasn’t got to. Although this is a more colloquial style.

She hasn’t got to do that task anymore.

✅ “He doesn’t have to do it”

Remember the auxiliary verb when you want to put a verb in the negative. He has to becomes, he doesn’t have to.

There are various tasks that she doesn’t have to do anymore

SOMETHING TO SOUND CONFIDENT 🧐

👔 Business expressions

“Geo-arbitrage”

Geo-arbitrage means taking advantage of cost differences between places. People do it by earning in a high-wage country while living somewhere cheaper. Businesses do it by outsourcing work to lower-cost regions while keeping quality high.

Individual: Sarah works remotely for a U.S. company but lives in Bali, cutting expenses through geo-arbitrage

Business: A startup outsourced software development to India, reducing costs without sacrificing quality

SOMETHING TO READ 👀

49 Business Lessons I’d Teach My Daughter - Olly Richards

My daughter is 7 years old, and I've been building online businesses for longer than she was alive. I think about this sometimes.She doesn't know it, but her extremely privileged life is only possible thanks to what Daddy has learnt about doing business on the internet.Now, I don't imagine for a minute that she'll want […]

ollyrichards.co/blog/49-online-business-lessons

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