10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job!

July 21st, 2006 by Steve Pavlina [my thots are below...]

It’s a REALLY long article and I thot about posting a point or two for the next few days but I’m just going to post the link for anyone who wants to read it all.

...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.

This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.

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.

My thots:
He was straight abusing all we employees out there ni sha. LOL…I read this and suddenly got depressed :(. Like do these people that manage to do all these things and make all this money have 2 brains? Are they not human like me? Agreed we all have different upbringings and maybe different opportunities but dang!! I hear people say all the time that “ah with you kind of job, I so will be dipping my hand into different business ventures” and I think “yea, if it were that easy, we’d all be rich” [the write above sure makes it sound like it tho’] and it kinda irks me sometimes when I hear it. Do people honestly think I don’t wonder what else I could be doing with my life? I have all those “this kaint be life moments” too…a lot lately as a matter of fact.

I mean, this person was making 40G’s in ONE month!! AND that wasn’t his only stream of income…shagging ‘ell!!!! Is it REALLY that easy??

He makes great points tho’…like his second point about having limited experience. Haven’t we all been frustrated about the need for these companies to demand people with 10years experience in some field or area of study?? We spend all this time and money in school and have a hard time getting a job cos we don’t have experience. How the heck do I get this experience if you don’t hire me to do the job?? Hire me and see if I can do the damn job, if not, you reserve the right to fire me!!

I really do commend those that have a vision or an idea or a passion and they go out and do it. They fight through the rough patches and stick to it till they are able to maintain a balance and succeed. I think it’s mighty impressive but again we all ain’t able…some people are meant to be employees!!

[RE: my entry about passion] If I was passionate enough about something then maybe…but outside of that I really do sometimes wonder what I can get my hands on to do. Where/in what I can find a niche in this world of great and brilliant ideas?? What can I come up with that hasn’t been done before? Or maybe that is the problem? Maybe it doesn’t have to be a brand new idea…just a new and improved version of an existing one. If one can’t come up with something profitable in this ‘land of opportunities’ then were?? [Current economic situation aside].

Ideally, I would like to do something for myself, like just be a well rounded expert in my field and be an independent consultant in that industry but I don’t have lofty plans of owning a conglomerate or even running a business [as per having employees and all the HR stuff]…I think I could co-own a business tho’. I buy into the idea that people should have more than one stream of income. I heard that years ago at a service and when I have those ‘passion’ discussions with God, I always go back to it. There is a scripture that say “it is God that gives us the power to create wealth”—paraphrased…God immo need this power to come upon me soonest biko…

Ah well, the march goes on…we gotta laff to keep from crying. E go better.

Full article: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job!!

*Muah*