The social conditioning that nearly all of us grew up with is that go to college or any higher institution of learning and obtain one degree or another to enable you secure a job and start a living. After some time, if you are luck enough you have a job that could allow you to marry, have children and pass the same concept to them and the circle continue.
Most people spend their productive years working on a job, some hardly change job within this period, and hoping that when they retire they would have enough money to enjoy. They are depending on their pension or gratuity at retirement. However, experience has shown that nearly everyone with this kind of mindset had met one disappointment or the other. It is either their employer throws them out early enough or their pension withheld. I always wept whenever I watch on TV pensioners queuing endlessly for their money and I couldn’t imagine myself been among them. Sadly enough many die in the process of waiting.
I imagine and could ascertain to an extent that most of these people in their heydays would have woken up as early as 4:30 am and travel long distance to their place of work and might not return home until 11:00 or 12:00 in the night. At work they put in their best and always do their employers’ bidding.
The question is why are most people doing this to themselves? Simply put, they are comfortable with the security the paid employment or their job seems to offer. The certainty of the next paycheck has blindfolded them to keep on working at a job that barely sustain them and coupled with the social conditioning they believe selling their time is the best way to earn a living. It doesn’t matter your position in your organization as long as you are exchanging your time for money you can’t have financial freedom and you are kidding yourself about a security that is not there.
And the truth is that your employer can never adequately pay for your time while he/she would do everything possible to get the best out of you. Do you even think your employer loves you? It is like a domesticated fowl that is been fed and taken care of by its owner; the essence of all the care and affection is that one day it will end up been a meal on its owner’s table! Like the fowl owner employers care for employees for their own ultimate benefits!
Then why are you doing this great disservice to yourself? Fear of unknown! That has been the main reason you are still staying on a job you don’t like; working for an employer you dislike and who keep on tormenting your life day in day out. You are still holding on to the job because you believe it offers security that is not actually there. You are always at the mercy of your employer who could get tired of seeing your face and ask you to go. Can you handle sudden retrenchment or outright sack when you hardly had any savings or any business that could sustain you even for a while? Think about the emotional turmoil you will pass through; the longer you have stayed on the job the more painful it becomes. And the question again is why are you doing this to yourself? Job security, you will say until your employer throws you out and then you will realize that the security has been an illusion, it never existed. You might probably toy with the idea of engaging in legal battle if your employer sacked you without cogent reason. But before you do, you must consider the years it might take you to fight and win (that is if you win at all) the legal battle.
Disadvantages Imposed By The So Called Job Security
Over time your belief and trust about job security erodes away your initiatives and creativity. Take it or you leave it, you no longer have a mind of your own as you are bound to do the bid and will of your employers irrespective of your view and idea. Except few employments that allow you to express yourself and use your ideas, even in such environment you are still limited by rules and regulations.
More so, when you are new on a job, you might acquire knowledge and skill that you never possess before but as time goes on and you are accustomed to carrying out your daily routine on the job, your growth comes to a stand still or it slows down tremendously. The drive that has been occasioned by the challenge of learning new skills which drove you to optimal performance in the first place is no longer there. And unless your employer moves you to another location or department that offers you greater challenge, you will not grow beyond the level you are. The danger here is that if the knowledge you acquired on your job is a very specialized one and your company folds up or the employer throws you out for one reason or the other, then whatever growth you have attained would be useless and you will need to learn another skills to be relevant and earn yourself a living elsewhere.
The higher security your job seems to offer; the more demanding your job would be and the more you are at the mercy of your employer. This translates to the fact that you will be spending most of your time with the same people, your colleagues in the office, day in, day out and would hardly have time to interact with people that matters outside your job who could positively affect your life tremendously.
The Best Alternative
The best you could do for yourself is to avoid selling your time for money; devise a system that would make you money even when you are not there. You must let your money work for you and don’t spend all your life working for money. The former allows you the freedom to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it. This is the secret of the rich; when your money works for you, you are creating residual income for yourself and your children. The latter enslaves you forever and perpetuates you in a job with a security that is not there. What an illusion!
I cringe whenever I see old people that ought to be at home enjoying with their families, cruising the world together, been abused by their employer, who is often time much younger. Simply because they failed to do what they are supposed to do when they are much younger. Every of our inaction and indecision today is a mortgage of our freedom and enjoyment in future.
Recently I was discussing with a man who was obviously in his fifties and was facing been retrenched in an industry that was downsizing and the man told me he would have loved to quit his job before he would be asked to go but he had no savings and has lots of responsibilities to take of. More so, he hardly had time for himself because of his job that was very demanding.
Then it dawn on me that people have wrong perception about starting their own business; they believe their problem is that of money rather than the problem of idea and the desire to work for self. Even in this internet age that people can make substantial income on the internet 24/7/365.
Most people spend their productive years working on a job, some hardly change job within this period, and hoping that when they retire they would have enough money to enjoy. They are depending on their pension or gratuity at retirement. However, experience has shown that nearly everyone with this kind of mindset had met one disappointment or the other. It is either their employer throws them out early enough or their pension withheld. I always wept whenever I watch on TV pensioners queuing endlessly for their money and I couldn’t imagine myself been among them. Sadly enough many die in the process of waiting.
I imagine and could ascertain to an extent that most of these people in their heydays would have woken up as early as 4:30 am and travel long distance to their place of work and might not return home until 11:00 or 12:00 in the night. At work they put in their best and always do their employers’ bidding.
The question is why are most people doing this to themselves? Simply put, they are comfortable with the security the paid employment or their job seems to offer. The certainty of the next paycheck has blindfolded them to keep on working at a job that barely sustain them and coupled with the social conditioning they believe selling their time is the best way to earn a living. It doesn’t matter your position in your organization as long as you are exchanging your time for money you can’t have financial freedom and you are kidding yourself about a security that is not there.
And the truth is that your employer can never adequately pay for your time while he/she would do everything possible to get the best out of you. Do you even think your employer loves you? It is like a domesticated fowl that is been fed and taken care of by its owner; the essence of all the care and affection is that one day it will end up been a meal on its owner’s table! Like the fowl owner employers care for employees for their own ultimate benefits!
Then why are you doing this great disservice to yourself? Fear of unknown! That has been the main reason you are still staying on a job you don’t like; working for an employer you dislike and who keep on tormenting your life day in day out. You are still holding on to the job because you believe it offers security that is not actually there. You are always at the mercy of your employer who could get tired of seeing your face and ask you to go. Can you handle sudden retrenchment or outright sack when you hardly had any savings or any business that could sustain you even for a while? Think about the emotional turmoil you will pass through; the longer you have stayed on the job the more painful it becomes. And the question again is why are you doing this to yourself? Job security, you will say until your employer throws you out and then you will realize that the security has been an illusion, it never existed. You might probably toy with the idea of engaging in legal battle if your employer sacked you without cogent reason. But before you do, you must consider the years it might take you to fight and win (that is if you win at all) the legal battle.
Disadvantages Imposed By The So Called Job Security
Over time your belief and trust about job security erodes away your initiatives and creativity. Take it or you leave it, you no longer have a mind of your own as you are bound to do the bid and will of your employers irrespective of your view and idea. Except few employments that allow you to express yourself and use your ideas, even in such environment you are still limited by rules and regulations.
More so, when you are new on a job, you might acquire knowledge and skill that you never possess before but as time goes on and you are accustomed to carrying out your daily routine on the job, your growth comes to a stand still or it slows down tremendously. The drive that has been occasioned by the challenge of learning new skills which drove you to optimal performance in the first place is no longer there. And unless your employer moves you to another location or department that offers you greater challenge, you will not grow beyond the level you are. The danger here is that if the knowledge you acquired on your job is a very specialized one and your company folds up or the employer throws you out for one reason or the other, then whatever growth you have attained would be useless and you will need to learn another skills to be relevant and earn yourself a living elsewhere.
The higher security your job seems to offer; the more demanding your job would be and the more you are at the mercy of your employer. This translates to the fact that you will be spending most of your time with the same people, your colleagues in the office, day in, day out and would hardly have time to interact with people that matters outside your job who could positively affect your life tremendously.
The Best Alternative
The best you could do for yourself is to avoid selling your time for money; devise a system that would make you money even when you are not there. You must let your money work for you and don’t spend all your life working for money. The former allows you the freedom to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it. This is the secret of the rich; when your money works for you, you are creating residual income for yourself and your children. The latter enslaves you forever and perpetuates you in a job with a security that is not there. What an illusion!
I cringe whenever I see old people that ought to be at home enjoying with their families, cruising the world together, been abused by their employer, who is often time much younger. Simply because they failed to do what they are supposed to do when they are much younger. Every of our inaction and indecision today is a mortgage of our freedom and enjoyment in future.
Recently I was discussing with a man who was obviously in his fifties and was facing been retrenched in an industry that was downsizing and the man told me he would have loved to quit his job before he would be asked to go but he had no savings and has lots of responsibilities to take of. More so, he hardly had time for himself because of his job that was very demanding.
Then it dawn on me that people have wrong perception about starting their own business; they believe their problem is that of money rather than the problem of idea and the desire to work for self. Even in this internet age that people can make substantial income on the internet 24/7/365.
This also bring us to the issue of the skills and experience you have acquired on your job over the years, can it serve you when you leave your job? Can you sell your job experience to people when you retire or does it retire with you? What have you learn while on your job that could serve others and make them pay you money? What knowledge do you possess outside your job that people would be willing to pay you for? You need to brainstorm and come up with that unique skill or knowledge you have which you could refine and translate into money. You come up with a laudable idea, you will be attracted to people that would give you the money.
What You Must Do
In other to live the life of your dream and have the true freedom to do whatever you want to do; you must dump every thing you have been told about starting your own business that is not true. Some of them are:
I have little or no money to start my own business. I have talked about this earlier on, but the truth is that often time the problem is not of money but of idea. If you have a sound idea and you are very passionate about it and you present it to the right people with such enthusiasm that infect them; they would be more than willing to give you their money. You might need to approach lots of people before you can get one that would truly support you, the key advice here is that you must not give up at a little resistance of refusal. If one person refuses you, simply go to another.
What if I fail? The truth is if you are afraid of failure you won’t start your own business and you will miss out on the freedom and affluence it brings in the long run. Failure is one of the hallmarks of the highly successful people. The more you fail the more your likelihood of succeeding. But it would be absolute insanity if you keep on doing something same way and expect to get different result. In other words, learn form your failures and use that to move ahead. Seek out the advice of those who have successfully traveled the path you are embarking upon. Tap into their unique experience and save yourself lots of frustrating time and distress even if you have to pay for such knowledge, please do.
I don’t have the time; I am too busy on my job. The truth is that you must create the time for yourself. When you make your financial freedom a priority, you will create the time for it. Starting your own business offers you security than any job because no one can throw you out. Why do you want to enrich your employer at the expense of yourself and your family? Can your job guarantee you and your children a successful future? What if you are sack today, can you and your family survive it? No? Fine! Then get up and create the time to build the life of freedom you crave for and truly deserved. If for nothing at all, just do it for the sake of your family!
You can start doing something on a part time and build up until you can conveniently leave your job and fully managing your own business and start investing in businesses that would give you residual income. If you don’t wake up from your slumber now and you still immersed yourself in the believe that you are secured by your job; then it will be too late by the time your employer decided he needs younger and more productive employees and is kind enough to show you the out!
I can’t stand the rigors of handling employees’ insurgency. Granted employees are some times difficult set of people to manage. But who says you must engage in business that involves physical management of other people?
These days you could set up business that would not require you to manage people and your income would still be in the six figure bracket. That is why many people today are taking the advantage of the internet to enrich themselves and you will be doing yourself a lot of good if you can key into the opportunity such technology offers and start your own online business. Even offline, you can still engage in some businesses without going through the headache of managing people.
The time is not ripe yet; I still need to gather more experience. There is no perfect time to start your own business than now and you will definitely gather the experience as you forge ahead in your own business. Besides, the current experience on your job might be of little or no benefit to the business you have in mind and the best thing is to get started now on your own business and learn the ropes, make the mistakes, learn your lessons and move ahead rather than wasting your productive years to enrich someone else and be left in the cold at your old age. And if you need training on a particular skill in order that you could get started on your own business, please go ahead and don’t procrastinate.
Finally, take the courage today and start your own business because it offers you the best security than any job could offer irrespective of what you are earning on the job. The security there is a mere illusion. WAKE UP!
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