I’m sitting down with a sick daughter and its 7:11 a.m. and I should be working. I’m thinking of how crazy all this is. We were not put on earth for someone else and not be with our family members when they’re unwell, but here I am. Punching a clock, and supposively, we’re supposed to delight in it.
Work wants us to believe that what we should really care about is our family, yet they fire us if we take care of them for too long. I can think of a quote that I think is true in this case, “to find out who really owns your house, just stop paying your tax bill.” In this case, to find out who really owns your life, just stop going to work. You’ll run out of money.
Something that has really past by my mind quite a bit is that depending on one source of income is insane. You should have so many streams of income so that the loss of one can be offset by the many. No company (without the proper knowledge of good marketing, and I’m not talking about the marketing they teach us in school, please no brand advertising) can survive unless its ducks are in a row.
Maybe I’m too much of an S type owner (, if you don’t know what this is, go down to the library and rent a copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad). Maybe, I’m just stubborn, and I like not being told what to do, but I just don’t think this is how we’re supposed to live. Under the thumb of someone else who is under the thumb of a another guy, who lives under the thumb of a clueless owner who goes to Fiji 355 days a year out of 365 and only comes in to to yell at people to make himself feel like he’s working.
(If you really want to rise up the ranks fast, that’s usually all you have to do, as long as you haven’t doing something tremendously stupid by doing all your work| you’re supposed to do fast and efficiently, getting you ahead of the game, they don’t believe you’ve earned your money unless you spend the time (it’s not necessarily about the work) because that is how the “machine” functions.)
Call me insane, but that does not sound like a real life.
Scott Buendia is a personal development specialist and lover of free time. He writes truthful motivational articles about the realtiies of life and blog posts and continually looks for a way to be totally ecomonically independent.