working together (work buddie) doesn't mean you accomplish twice the work in a day. We have founds its around 130 to 140% of what I do on my own. It also slows me down so isn't because my work buddie is slow.
Exactly right
I found through long experience that two people working together can't achieve twice as much as one person working on his own. It's even worse when you have two people working on the same house (unless it's a huge mansion).
The only way I managed to make it work when I had employees (two to a van) was to ensure they each had their own list of houses to do at each stop, trying to make the lists as equal as possible. Even then there was a considerable drop in work rate, as one would always be faster than the other, so would have to wait for the other one to fininsh before moving on to the next block of work.
OK if all the work was 'side by side' - a full days work for two men without moving the van but that's impossible day after day.
Having a work buddy for company is fine, but you need to be prepared to work much longer days to maintain your income level, or be satisfied with less money!!