Starting a small business with subcontractors

I am in the process of starting up a small carpentry business and I'm weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of hiring an employee from the get go or using subcontractors instead.

I'm wondering if anyone has done a similar approach using subcontractors and if it worked out well or was a bad idea?

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u/scoopy_do — 1 day ago

Isn't it lovely

Appreciation post for this lad, the bees are loving it at the moment

u/scoopy_do — 3 months ago