It’s funny that when people reach a
certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go
out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because
everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
In fact, if you’re reasonably
intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support
yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling
yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do
everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1)
Income for dummies
Getting a job and trading your time
for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with
it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate
income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb?
Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem
with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s
reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re
working? Have you never considered that it might be better
to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you
could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee
perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be
much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with
the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or
not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them?
Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you
work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time
you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6
hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that
matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets
and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care
enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it
took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took
me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the
traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re
just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually
realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that
there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way.
The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that
generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include
starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or
generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the
ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion,
it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on,
the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining
your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
Sure it takes some upfront time and
effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems.
But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems
like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you
won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be
nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re
eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours
because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing
nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to
others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is
filled with books containing workable systems others have already
designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a
business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How
long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is
going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as
the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage
slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only
generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right
direction.
2)
Limited experience
You might think it’s important to
get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf
to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living,
regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you
experience at that job, but you gain “experience” doing just about
anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing
for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced
meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience
from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience
over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and
then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would
be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes
obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask
yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30
years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which
experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific
job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money
— or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of
your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you,
but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful
in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3)
Lifelong domestication
Getting a job is like enrolling
in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good
pet.
Look around you. Really
look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human
being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious
animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming
along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get
disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left
inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in
cages. You poor thing…
4)
Too many mouths to feed
Employee income is the most heavily
taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary
will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re
really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer,
and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your
employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your
pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even
the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate
that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by
your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying
for it.
Another chunk of your income goes
to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why
employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all,
who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and
investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the
real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple
what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes
straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5)
Way too risky
Many employees believe getting a job
is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Social conditioning is
amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact
opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position
where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (“You’re
fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only
one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most
secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if
you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone.
If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional
gambler.
6)
Having an evil bovine master
When you run into an idiot in the
entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way.
When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn
around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss
comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master?
Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And
in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end
of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil
bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but
a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7)
Begging for money
When you want to increase
your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money?
Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and
then?
Or are you free to decide how much
you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one
customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8)
An inbred social life
Many people treat their jobs as
their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working
in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends.
An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch
from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system,
and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be
like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay
inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold
to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated
field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of
receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead
of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are
locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of
those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9)
Loss of freedom
It takes a lot of effort to tame a
human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the
human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a
weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and
regulations. This leads the new employee to become more
obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for
something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude
it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question.
Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly
minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training,
employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We
can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That
would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a
plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the
end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the
enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules
and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is:
“Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10)
Becoming a coward
ave you noticed that employed people
have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies?
But they don’t really want solutions — they just want
to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault.
It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and
turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a
jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer
free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around
cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you?
Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice
the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first
courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your
independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an
illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what
you’ve become.
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