Why getting a job is a bad idea?

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By Gino J ⋅ May 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Getting a job seems like an obvious thing to do. Almost everybody I know is employed. Even in high school when I chose collage to be in, one of the main reasons was getting a profession that would guarantee reasonable income. Now I’m finishing my third year at collage and the time is coming when I have to find a job to support myself. It seems life just goes this way. Being unemployed makes no sense. And it doesn’t sound right. But is getting a job best what you can do to generate income? I’m saying it isn’t.

“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.” Steve Pavlina once wrote in his blog and I couldn‘t agree more.

So what makes me think that getting a job is stupid idea?

Firstly, there’s one question that bothers me every time I go to job interview. While I’m sitting all sweating in front of HR trying to show the best I got, one simple question just keeps popping to my mind: why should I work for somebody else? Why should I try to make someone else rich or even richer?

Sure you might say, we all have bills to pay and setting up a business takes just too much time and it’s way too risky after all. Trading our time for money and being simple employee is much safer way to make money. But hey, how many millionaires you know who became such working for somebody else? They all earned their fortunes working for themselves. Furthermore they are making money 24/7 while most of us are getting paid only for working hours. So have you really never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working?

What if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids? What if you got paid whether you work or not? Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?

I’m not telling you to quit your job. Don’t get me wrong. All I’m saying is, that there are other ways to make money. And the best way to make money is to set up your own money making system. It might be a business, a blog, stocks or whatever you can make money from. Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7. We started a blog. Why cannot you?

To be honest with you, this blog is about making money. And we are trying to reach our dreams. And, you know, it’s not that important if we’ll make one million dollars in two years, the most important thing is – we started doing something. Most people are too afraid to start from the very beginning. But in my opinion, there is nothing to be scared of, most of us is just too lazy.

Ok, it takes some upfront time and effort to implement your own money making systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks, affiliate programs or even Ebay. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself.

Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate income from investments, but, you can easily learn it. With the age of the internet came new opportunities and it would be silly not to take advantage of them. So in the end, I would like to wish best luck for all of you creating and implementing your own money making systems.

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