You Will Never Make Real Cash Working For Some Other Person.

Do Roles Suck?

I have 40 working years under my belt. I have worked for small and large firms and have owned a few companies early in my career. I've found there are good points and bad points for every strategy of making a living.

Anthony Robins introduced me to the "rocking chair test" years back. Here's how it functions. In your mind you picture yourself 90 years old , sitting in your rocker on the front porch reflecting on your life. You ask "What do I regret and not regret in your life?" The results are: You seldom regret the things you have done; it's mostly the things you didn't do.

Looking backwards, I can just think of one job that was rewarding and that job only lasted two years before it became drudgery just like all the other roles. The other jobs paid me a six figure revenue, but at a price of working on projects that I could not care less about, fighting tediousness, depression, working 60 hours each week, working weekends, canceled holidays and getting crap reviews from a corporate ladder climbing supervisor because "no one gets a good review". To cap it all off, I am getting let go from my favourite job as a result of a merger with the thousand pound gorilla in the business. I was a stellar performer, but I did not have the right degree.

In retrospection, the best times in my life were the times working for me or working in a company winch I owned a major stake. "The worst day working for you beats the best day working for somebody else".

So what occurred? I got married at 37, had a handful of children and fell into the security trap. I took a job because I wanted security for my wife and kids. Fear and comfort will keep you enslaved in the job trap.

It took a life-threatening sickness to give me the self-control to destroy the job cycle. Why should I spend the remainder of my life, going to bed with a sick feeling pondering insignificant crap that I will have to tolerate tomorrow?

Why should I wake up each morning with someone else's Problems on my mind? Why should I work this Saturday because my supervisor had a spurt of aspiration on Fri. afternoon and must have this project completed?

If I'm going to worry, work 60 hours, work the weekend or cancel my holiday should I be doing it for me?
I'm sure there's someone out there that loves their job. Congratulations if you're that person. Statistics indicate however that the majority of people work all of their lives in jobs they loathe, retire with little or no money and then die. The second most dispensed medication is for depression.

Retirement is also a crock. My father retired, lives on Social Security, sleeps all day and never goes anywhere or has any cash to enjoy his retirement. If you would like to be ecstatic you have to have a life goal and a reason and the drive to get up each morning. You need enough drive to get up and go even if you are hurting.

Many of us are so sad and discontented with our jobs that we can't wait to get home or we will not wait for the weekend so we can work our ass off in our hobby, for nothing. Most people do not get the same sense of accomplishment at work that they get from their hobby or home business.

I'm not telling you to give up your job tomorrow but you would survive whether or not you probably did.

Owning my own business was very rewarding even if the business was struggling.

Profit is the reward for gambling. If you are not willing to risk what you have you must be quite happy with what you have. If you do not take a risk, what you have now is all that you will ever have.

The day will never come when everything is right to start your business so you must begin today. Don't wait until you have got the money or get downsized. I have decided that I will not give up my company job, but when I do give up I can never take another job. Nobody except my customers will control my days anymore.

If you're reading this and you are starting your career or searching for a career where you can be your own employer, look closely at the HVAC industry or other service industry. You can get the HVAC training you want while making a wage working for an AC Contractor. As quickly as you've got the skills, it is easy to get your contractor's license and with a van and 1 or 2 tools, start your own business.

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