10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

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Did you know that having a job is one of the worst ways that you can possibly earn money? Most of us have been brainwashed with the old addage that you should go to school, get good grades, then go get yourself a nice secure job. There are several reasons why I think that working for somebody else is actually a bad idea. Let me share ten of them with you today.

1. Trading your time for money is one of the worst ways to earn money.

Who taught you that you should only be paid for the time you work? When you have a job, you get paid in exchange for the time you put in. So what happens when you get sick, or have a family emergency that doesn't allow you to go to that job for any period of time? Your income stops and you suffer financially.

Wouldn't it be better to make money 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, even if you aren't actually working? This type of income is called passive income and it really isn't that hard to do. You can generate passive streams of income in many different ways. You could have a website that makes advertising and affiliate revenue for you all day long. You could write a book or a song that generates royalties. You could start a business that runs without your active involvement (McDonald's owners are a good example of this). You could invest money and live off the returns on your investments. You could buy real estate and generate rental income. There are more ways, but this list should help get your creative ideas flowing.

The main concept of generating passive income is that you are trading value for money instead of time for money. For example, say you choose to create a website about basset hounds. You take the time to write lots of informative articles and post lots of pictures about basset hounds on your website. Once all this work is posted up on your website, people can come by and surf around your site over and over again. The articles that you had to write just once will keep providing value to your site visitors over and over and over again. Those articles can keep generating advertising revenue for you day after day after day without any further involvement on your part.

Even if you don't know anything about generating passive income streams, it's worth taking the time to start learning. Time is going to pass anyways, so you might as well start developing these income streams now so that you can free yourself your future self from trading your time for money. If you don't start doing something differently, nothing is going to change for you.

2. Jobs limit your experience

When you work at a job, you are only gaining experience doing one thing. When you are in charge of creating your own income streams, you begin to gain experience in a lot of different things. These experiences will help you learn and grow and get even better at creating value for others and making money doing it. Which type of experience do you think is going to benefit you the most in the long run?

3. Jobs limit your freedom

How does it feel to have to get up every day to be somewhere that you probably don't want to be, doing something you probably would rather not be doing? While you are at that job, you are being told what to do, when to do it, when you can take a break, for how long, how much your time is worth...

Does that sound like a free person to you? If you decide one day to not get up and go to that job, you risk being fired and having your income dry up. If you trade value for money, instead of time for money, you are free to choose what to do with your time, and you are free to make as much money as you like. If you want to make more money, you just need to create some more value.

4. Jobs syphon most of your income away

When you work at a job, you are lining everyone else's pockets. People with jobs are the most heavily taxed individuals. People with businesses have all kinds tax write offs and tax shelters. People with jobs are making the company rich and the owners of that company are benefitting from all your hard work. Stop making everyone else rich, start putting your efforts toward making yourself rich instead.

5. Jobs are NOT secure

Why do most people thinks jobs are a safe way of making money, and that owning your own business is risky? Think of it this way, whether or not you actually own your own business, you are in business. The thing is that when you have a job, the only customer for your business is the company you work for. If that company ever decides they don't want your services any more, your income is gone.

On the other hand, if you own your own business, or are generating income in other ways, you have lots and lots of customers. If one of those customers ever decides to leave you, only a very small portion of your income is lost. The chances of all of your customers leaving you at once is a lot smaller than the chances of your boss deciding that they no longer want your services anymore. A business will offer you more income security than a job ever will.

6. Jobs give you no control over who you have to interact with

When you go to work, you have very little choice about who you interact with. Your boss or coworkers might be the most horrible people to have to deal with ever, but you have no choice but to suck it up and deal with it.

When you have your own income streams, you can choose who you want to work with. If you run into somebody that really irks you, you can just walk away and find somebody else that is much more pleasant.

7. Jobs fix your income

Having a fixed income is a horrible experience. When your income is fixed, you have to follow budgets, monitor your spending, deny yourself things that you really want to have. Basically, having a fixed income, forces you to control your spending and deny yourself things.

When you exchange value for money, if you want to make more money, all you need to do is to create more value. Nobody is there to tell you that you can't be paid more. You are the one who decides what your income limits are.

8. Jobs actually stifle your social life

When you work at a job, you see the same people every day, and probably talk about the same stuff every day too. How exciting is that?

When you are in control of your income, you a free to go out and socialize with whomever, whenever you like. You are likely to meet more interesting people and run into more income generating opportunities this way.

9. You lose your freedom and individuality with a job

Does your job tell you how to dress, what your work area should look like, how you should conduct yourself on the job? Does this sound like freedom to you?

Take control of your life again. Generate your own income and choose how you want to dress, how you want to act, and what your work area will look like (if you even want to have one).

10. Jobs kill your will

Most employees like to complain a lot. But they also rarely do anything to change what they are complaining about. Problems become everybody else's fault and everyone else's responsibility to fix in the eyes of most employees.

Unfortunately, this mindset also tends to spill over into other areas of the employee's life. Soon, they do little to change anything in their life for the better. Instead, they just complain, and hope somebody else will fix their problems for them.

Take your will back! When you take control of your income, your confidence grows and eventually soars. This confidence will spill over into other areas of your life. Soon you take responsibility for everything in your life and you also take action to get where you want to go instead of just sitting around and complaining about how bad things are. Your life will become amazing.

Get Started Today

It's never to late to take your life and your income back. There are many ways to make money outside of a job. Perhaps one of the easiest ways is to take what you are doing now as an employee and start trying to figure out how you could do the same things, or something similar, as your own business. If you know enough about a skill or hobby to write a book, or create a website about it, you could make money that way.

If your unfamiliar with creating and marketing websites, but the idea of making money online interests you, I highly suggest checking out Site Build It. They will help you create and market a new website with step by step instructions. No technical knowledge is requires as they handle all the technical stuff for you.

Start brainstorming and creating your financial freedom today. Don't leave yourself stuck as a job slave on a fixed income for the rest of your life.

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