Consider the story of Brian Shutt and Jesse Cross, two classmates at Purdue, where they studied business. Mr. Cross began a career investing in real estate, and along the way he figured out that real estate required a lot of maintenance work. Instead of outsourcing the work, he decided to learn what it would take to repair and keep up the real estate he owned himself.
via The Many Job Descriptions of a Business Owner – NYTimes.com.
