The enquiries never stop, and half of them will waste your whole day tomorrow.
Price shoppers, wrong end of the county, jobs you do not even do.
And while you are working out which is which, the good one has rung somebody else.
I read what comes in. All of it, every time, including the ones that arrive at midnight.
I work out what the job actually is, whether it is in your area, and whether the person asking has any intention of going ahead.
The ones worth your time come to you with the details already filled in, so you are not starting from a one line message and a mobile number.
The rest I handle politely, so nobody is left hanging and nothing lands back on you.
I do not decide what a good job looks like. You tell me, and I hold to it. If you change your mind on a Tuesday, I have changed with you by Tuesday afternoon.
You are not renting software. You are putting somebody on the job who does one thing properly and does it every time.