Why Do you Have A Job?
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How I got my J.O.B.
I remember what I told the guy who interviewed me for my job: “I’m looking for an opportunity to get solid sales training and experience, and I’m looking to make about $600 per week.” At the time I was newly married, totally broke and living off credit cards and student loans. $600 per week might as well have been $10,000 per week in my mind. I just wanted not to be broke anymore. And I knew that gaining experience in commission-only sales would be valuable in the long run. Commission sales is the closest thing to entrepreneurship (without actually becoming an entrepreneur).
Is that why you have your job? Are you just avoiding being broke? Are you treading water at a job that doesn’t satisfy you because it’s keeping you in the house you think you really care about? Allowing you to drive the car you think you really love? You may be one of the select few people out there that love what they do for work. It’s not likely though.
We follow the crowd.
Most people have a job for the same reason they went to college — because everyone else was doing it. Having a job is so nearly universal that it has become the norm, as opposed to just one of many options for earning a living. It’s so widely accepted that most people never stop to question whether it’s the best method for providing lifestyle. Most envy the entrepreneur, the young and wealthy. But it’s so unusual that they can’t accept it as a viable choice. Their only reaction is to pass young wealth off as lucky, or worse, evil. It keeps the employee’s paradigm safe. Can you open your mind to the reality that your job might put you at more risk than starting your own business? Can you imagine yourself Unemployed? I know I can.
But listen, I’m not an extremist. There is value in having a job under some circumstances. Tomorrow I’ll talk about the five reasons a job can be okay, at least temporarily.
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