You'll Never Make Real Money Working For Some Other Person.

Do Roles Suck?

I have 40 working years under my belt. I have worked for small and large companies and have owned several companies early in my career. I have found there are pros and cons for each system of making a living.

Anthony Robins introduced me to the “rocking chair test” years back. Here’s how it operates. In your mind's eye you picture yourself 90 years old , sitting in your comfy chair 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 generally the things you didn't do.

Looking backwards, I can only think about one job that was rewarding and that job only lasted 2 years before it became drudgery just like all of the other roles. The other jobs paid me a 6 figure income, but at a price of working on projects that I could not care less about, fighting boredom, depression, working 60 hours per week, working weekends, canceled vacations and getting crap reviews from a corporate ladder climbing supervisor because “no one gets a good review”. To cap it all off, I get let go from my fave job due to a merger with the thousand pound gorilla in the industry. I was a stellar performer, but I didn't have the right degree.

On reflection, 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 is better than the best day working for someone else”.

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

It took a life-endangering sickness to give me the discipline to break the job cycle. Why should I spend the remainder of my life, going to bed with a sick feeling brooding about trivial crap that I'm going to have to tolerate tomorrow?

Why do I have to wake up each morning with someone else’s Problems on my mind? Why should I work this weekend because my supervisor had a spurt of aspiration on Friday afternoon and must have this project completed?

If I'm going to worry, work 60 hours, work the weekend or cancel my vacation should I be doing it for me?
I am sure there is somebody out there that loves their job. Congratulations if you are that person. Statistics prove however that most people work all their lives in jobs they do not like, retire with no money and then die. The second most dispensed medication is for depression.

Retirement is also a crock. My dad retired, lives on Social Security, sleeps all day and never goes anywhere or has any money to enjoy his retirement. If you would like to be contented you must have a purpose in life and a reason and the drive to get up every morning. You need enough drive to get up and go even if you're hurting.

Many of us are so unhappy and dissatisfied with our roles that we can not wait to get home or we can’t wait for the weekend so we will work our ass off in our hobby, absolutely free. The majority do not get the same sense of achievement at work that they get from their hobby or home run business.

I'm not letting you know to give up your job tomorrow but you would survive even though you probably did.

Owning my own business was really rewarding even when the business was struggling.

Profit is the reward for taking a chance. If you're not content to risk what you have you must be very happy with what you have. If you do not take a risk, what you have now is all you will ever have.

The day will never come when everything is correct to start your business so you should start today. Don’t wait until you've got the money or get downsized. I have decided that I will not give up my corporate job, but when I do quit I can never take another job. Nobody except my consumers will control my days again.

If you are reading this and you are beginning your career or looking for a career where you may be your own proprietor, look hard at the HVAC industry or other service industry. You can get the HVAC training you need while making a wage working for an AC Contractor. As fast as you've got the abilities, you can get your contractor’s license and with a truck and 1 or 2 tools, start your own business.

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