Pay a professional to help when it feels like ‘too much work’

This is something I learned in college. But it’s stuck with me to this day. I’m not sure how many people know about it but I’ll explain it below.<br><br>If there is something you are doing or wish to do and it feels like ‘too much work’.<br><br>Simply pay someone to do it and help you.<br><br>I was doing my masters in engineering. And I was struggling a lot. I was doing 24 credits, working 30 hours a week, TAing for a class, and running a campus org.<br><br>My budget was $250/month for miscellaneous expenses.<br><br>But one day I was taking two courses for my major. One of them I was still fixing a 10 page paper I had worked on for three weeks. I had this paper, I was having a hard time. I was getting tired of working on it. I took a look at my budget, and I had about $200 left that I could use. I went to the tutoring center on campus, and paid one of my TAs $200 to help me fix the paper. She read my entire 10 page paper and reformatted it. She did everything I needed to get an A in 3 hours. My mind was blown. I had wasted 3 weeks and had paid $200 and my paper was done. After that I had a new motto, ‘pay a professional when it feels too hard’. <br><br>Since then, i have paid students on campus to do my laundry because I was too busy. I have paid writers online to write my cover letters. I have even paid college students to help me fix my resume multiple times.<br><br>This applies to real life too. I have paid a consultant to help me get my dream job. I have paid a company to help me with my taxes and save $5000. I even have a personal trainer because I knew I couldn’t do it by myself.<br><br>Anyways, if you want to be more productive, I think sometimes simply paying someone to do a task that may take you way too much time but doesn’t pay you enough, makes a lot of sense. <br><br>If anyone else does this too, please let me know in the comments.