10/14/2026
On Monday, a staffing recruiter offered me $4,800 a week.
I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t say no right away. I said maybe. The number was real — I named my rate, and they met it inside of ten minutes.
Then I started asking questions.
The answers...
Full time. Forty hours a week. On site. The work would route through two staffing companies before it ever reached the client, whose name they never told me. And they wanted my résumé.
That’s when it hit me. My résumé wasn’t going to be a résumé. It was going to become a list of their assets. Thirty years in construction operations, a Minnesota builder’s license, ProAdvisor Gold — sitting on someone else’s capability statement, doing someone else’s work, under someone else’s name.
So I wrote back and offered what I actually do. Define the scope. Fixed fee. Show me the file. Tell me who the client is.
Their answer came back in four minutes. Fixed fee was fine. But they would be the ones presenting the bid.
They called again six minutes after that. I let it ring.
Here’s why that was easy, and why it wasn’t.
I spent twenty years running a construction company. I held the Minnesota builder’s license. I ran the operations and the books. I signed where I was told to sign. When the market fell in 2008, the company in my name closed and the debt followed me for years. The next spring, the same work started up again under someone else’s name.
Then nearly a decade as an office manager, doing executive work at half of executive pay. I got the praise. I never got the title.
There’s a quote on my desk I’ve kept for years: “There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” I believe that. I’ve lived it, and I’d live it again.
But I’ve learned there’s a difference between not needing the credit and not being allowed to own the work. One of those is humility. The other is just a business arrangement — and it’s usually a good one for somebody else.
In January, I sent my first invoice under Who Spent That LLC. My name. My work. First time in my life.
I believe God gave me this business. I pray for my clients by name. And this week I keep landing on something I wrote down Sunday morning: don’t define permanently what God is still developing presently.
In Numbers 14, the people are standing at the edge of the land they were promised. The report frightens them. So they turn to each other and say: let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt. Back to provision they understood. Back to someone else’s name on their work.
I know that pull. I’ve answered it before.
$4,800 a week under another company’s name isn’t a promotion. It’s Egypt with better pay.
I’m building something smaller and slower and mine — Minnesota business owners who are profitable on paper and drowning in operations. Money. Structure. Strategy. In that order.
Who Spent That. My name, my work. Come find me.
