I love helping people. I hate helping people that don’t do anything with what I give them. I have learned that giving things away for free rarely works. I have tried coaching for free (for learning) and I was stood up two times in a row by the same person.
To combat this I put up hurtles. For instance if someone wants help on a job search, I make them read 7 articles I wrote on the topic and listen to a podcast. If they cannot do this I usually blow them off.
I don’t mind helping, people just have to do the work.
Free doesn’t scale very well either!
It scales just fine if no one takes you up on it. Now the wasting my time does not scale.
It’s funny. People tend to “de-value” things that are free. There is a perception that when something is free, it therefore has no value.
Like the kids that got the brand new car at 16, pretty soon it gets wrecked.