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The Free World: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
I couldn’t help but read Dena’s guest post from yesterday and not want to put in my own two cents!
This past year has seen me discover that 6 years of study, work and all that jazz has amounted to me not particularly wanting to pursue my set career path (or a career path at all), income stream experiments, starting a company to launch a software product (coming very soon!) and also starting to write.
I’d like to look back on 2009 and say ‘that was the year that the penny dropped’ and the ball got set into motion.
We’re all leaders of the free world, but our own free world. You might enjoy your job, but each and every one of us ARE self employed, whether you like it or not you’re always going to have to look out for number one.
In taking your own baby steps into the free world you’re definitely doing the right thing! What have you got to lose? If you try and fail you’ll just be right back here, having been to yet another end of year work Christmas party, talking to the same people, about the same things. Alternatively you could be in an insane Christmas rush to get your latest product that you’ve created out the door to fill all of your Christmas orders, freelancing your arse off to meet your client’s deadlines or travelling around managing your own affairs? If your free world experiments don’t work you will always have the safety net of returning to work in early January to start it all again..
Focus is the Key
Focus is the derivative, having a goal or a purpose is the backbone. What do you want? What do you want to do? Travel? Run your own business? Get stinking rich? Why do you want to be rich? Keep asking yourself questions on your questions to find what you really want and strive for it. Focus on exactly what you want. In experimenting with new income streams and trial & error in general there are two theories out there: focus on each one individually, one at a time and give each experiment your full attention, or go hell for leather at everything all at once, see what you excel at and then target towards that. This year I’ve found that I’m the former: I’ve got a hundred ideas but a short attention span meaning I’m easily side-tracked, I’m adopting a more focused approach to one thing at a time.
Your Purpose
I’ve made a point of reading whatever I could on the work life balance, running your own show and escaping the 9-5. The one point that has stuck with me was by Jonathan Mead of Illuminated Mind, paraphrased: “Are you waking up and eating your three meals a day, not achieving anything in particular, floating through life?” and a follow up of “Finding your purpose & defining your goals is easy, what can’t you not do?” These two points infuriated me, they stuck with me and won’t go away, I can’t get rid of them or get them out of my head. When I’ve had a lazy week I do think “Well, time to get dinner ready, the third meal of the day…”
So what are you waking up for each & everyday?
Patience
I recently found out that most of America’s self made millionaires hit the ‘big time’ at the ripe old age of 57. 57 years old? The book I was reading went on to say that during the 20’s a person is busy experimenting (guilty) and switching from job to job, in the 30’s there’s the obligation to settle down and focus on a career, the 40’s is where the real ‘work experience’ kicks in and it’s not until the late forties and early 50’s that you have a break through that can provide real value. The point the author was trying to make was that you need life experience before you can add any real value to people’s day to day lives.
With this in mind I am going to take my foot of the pedal (only a bit!) in the coming year, keep reading & researching and be a bit more patient, here’s hoping my idea is just around the corner.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
I read Dena’s guest post and it struck a chord with me. It also reminded me that yesterday I found myself on a phone call with an Engineering Manager to follow up a job interview! We all want to lead our own Free World but I’ve learnt this year that it’s a process, until your lotto numbers come up you’re going to have to work, whether it’s for someone else or yourself, tickets to the Free World aren’t easy!
Facebook is Your New Best Friend
On the Second Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me, A Massive Invasion of Privacy…
Do you have ‘spending 2 hours a night on Facebook’ under ‘Activities’ in your personal information profile? In light of trying to lead our own free world, improve the work life balance and get out there and do something, we seem to be spending an awful lot of time on facebook?
This week facebook rolled out its new privacy settings and this caused somewhat of a small uproar amongst people. “What? Now how am I supposed to spy on people’s photos?” On the surface, facebook is great for connecting with your friends, sending emails and sharing your photos with each other. What it’s really for is advertising! Never before has there been more targeted demographic advertising than facebook.
Your New Best Friend
Facebook knows what you’re a fan of, what you like, what activities you’re interested in, where you live, your gender, relationship status, employer and what you’ve been up to lately! The combination of all of your keyword inputs are used to generate advertising that is directed at you. I was a bit miffed to be offered not one but two lovely ladies courtesy of facebook.
Become a fan or join groups of the most obscure things and see what pops up on offer as an advertisement?
You might have changed your privacy settings or made custom friends lists so your boss can’t see you drinking beer through funnels on the weekend, but facebook will always know all!
Status Updates That Should be Banned
- Anything containing ‘OMG’
- Telling me you’ve just gone to the letterbox to check the mail
- That you’re soooo bored
- That you’ve just been to the shops
- That you’re at the pub* (You’re at the pub! Out and about, not on facebook, enjoy it!)
- Complaining about shit drivers on the freeway, while you’re using your cell phone to do a mobile facebook update while you’re driving. Think about it.*
- *All mobile uploads
Targeted Advertising
Back to the target demographic advertising, anything you are a fan of, like, or activities you list then you’re falling into an advertising ‘category’. As far as facebook is concerned I enjoy breathing in, ice-creams named with a homosexual vibe, I have a yearning to be playing with my childhood toys, I watch too much television and I enjoy not being on fire. Advertise to that!
Before you hit me with the hypocrite stick, I quite enjoy facebook. I think it’s brilliant for keeping in touch with family and friends and especially friends overseas. It also has plenty of other pros;
- Spying on school pals who’re bald & look like they’re 40
- Checking up on school pals that are on their second marriage
- Tagging your friends as farm animals
- Realising that the vast majority of people don’t know how to spell
With all of this facebook privacy who-ha that has been going on keep things in check, remember what the service can do for you. You don’t need to divulge all of your personal information. You might have just been on an amazing vacation to Costa Rica but would you sit down in your lounge room with all of your ‘friends’ on facebook and show them your holiday snaps in a photo album?
Well you know that I long to play with Lego, enjoy not being on fire and smother everything in HP sauce. Tell me about your experience with facebook. You can leave a comment below, follow me on twitter, sign-up for the remaining 10 days of Christmas or ironically join the Facebook group.
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The Twelve Days of Crispness…
On the First Day of Crispness
No not the painful Christmas carol, my version of the twelve days of Christmas. Crispness you ask? Well I’ve concluded that the general public cares more about how fresh their Christmas Day salad is (Australia) than what the Christmas holiday actually represents.
So unless you’re Christian, Catholic, or have any other affiliation with ‘him’ then what are you dishing out presents for? I overheard a lady in the shops the other day, talking to someone on her cell phone and stressing out about whether she was getting the right present, if it was going to be what the recipient wanted, would they like it, was it the right colour. Too much stress!
My Twelve Days of Christmas
I’m going to attempt to write something everyday for the next twelve days with the overall theme focused on you, leading your own free world. The next twelve days you’re going to get a few free world updates, some results from my online income experiments that you can try yourself, how you can travel the world tomorrow and a look at social media.
Back to Crispness. I was recently invited to a Friday night Shabbat (Jewish dinner) by a friend. We washed up, didn’t speak, broke bread, drank wine, had three kosher courses, didn’t have milk in our tea and then they sang some Hebrew prayers. Everyone was well dressed, the conversation was polite and the table setting was rather fancy. I was impressed by the table setting and exclaimed “This is pretty flash, you must really turn it on for Christmas dinner!” when I realised to my own stupidity, that Jewish folk don’t celebrate Christmas as they’re not particularly down with the whole Jesus caper.
So when people frown upon religion, think its stupid, over-rated or not for them, they still ‘celebrate’ Christ’s Mass. That makes sense?
The Good
Christmas is good for a few things, religious or not. It gives working slaves a reason to take a break from the drudgery and it also encourages time for friends and family to get together.
The Christmas holiday shouldn’t be about trying to please everyone, running around like crazy trying to be at every family event under the sun, having to blow your budget on presents, over indulgence or consumerism.
Retail outlets prey on Christmas cheer. Think of buzzwords like ‘Stocking Fillers’ (useless crap), ‘Christmas Essentials’ (more useless crap) and ‘Last Minute Panic’ (hurry to buy our useless crap!). Retail outlets start the Christmas buzz earlier and earlier every year, this year we had it start in October and now we’re waiting for the Boxing Day/January sales because if we weren’t dumb enough to spend all our money on presents for Christmas now we can make up for it in the sales!
That’s enough Christmas cheer for the first day of the countdown. Stay Tuned.
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Giving Up and Returning to the Working World… Part 1
Ah, the free world. What a glorious time it’s been so far. Not commuting in peak hour traffic, being able to set my own to-do lists, taking control, discovering a massive location independent network, no collared shirts and trousers… life is good.
“I’ve seen the promised land, and it is good!”
Let me quickly jump in and say I’m not giving up! I still want to be the poster child for the free world, ‘automated’ (yeah right!) income and quitting work to launch a successful start-up. But let’s continue…
My sabbatical from the working world has cleared the air. Everything I do in my own time in regards to freelancing, web design, options trading or product development is targeted and concise – How can I use my time in the most effective way to get from zero to $$ in the most effective way?
No career path bullshit, no office perks, no future opportunities with company X, no job security trollop, just action. After all, no matter who you are working for (yourself included) you’re still trading your time for dollars, but it’s nice to enjoy what you’re doing along the way.
This two-part article serves a few purposes; an explanation, a page full of excuses and an attempt to convince you (and myself) that I shouldn’t even be thinking of returning to the working world, albeit temporarily.
Phase I of Operation Free World
Courtesy of Brian Armstrong's 'Breaking Free' eBook. Click the image to grab a copy!
Prior to resigning from the 9 – 5 I had been toiling away researching life after employment and working on my first muse courtesy of reading the Four Hour Work Week. I’d set up a proprietary limited company (Incorporated Company for ya’ll in the US) and was nearing the completion of product development for the software start-up.
I had a few other post-employment plans that I hadn’t had time to kick-start but would implement once I escaped Alcatraz and had a bit more time; options (stock) trading, set up a website, starting a couple of professional service side projects and finally launch the software muse. Sure, I’d be fine in terms of an income.
After two months in the free world, total income generated = $320.
I’m not overly concerned at the lack of income as I hadn’t planned on any cash credits until the software project kicked off. I’d made a conscious decision months before escaping prison to save hard, budget and cut my expenses down in order to pay myself. I wouldn’t be living a life of luxury for a while but I’d be investing my own money and buying time. What’s the point of having cash reserves if you’re not going to use them? (Much easier in theory than in practice) I needed a new plan…
Are you stuck in the 9 -5 with plans to break free? Watched prison break too many times & got a full body tattoo of Tim Brownson’s ‘How to be Rich and Happy’ to use as your escape blue print? Currently toiling away at a muse or disgusted that I’m thinking of getting a job? Jump right in and leave a comment!
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Four Hour Work Week – My Arse!
4HWW - Australian Edition
My arse indeed Tim Ferriss. Let’s get things straight, I’ve read the Four Hour Work Week (4HWW), I love it and it’s consumed my life for the last 9 months. I’ve recommended it to a dozen people and given away about three copies. (Affiliate commission cheque in the mail?).
The concept is great, create an automated income stream by developing a muse product to sell online, and thus scaling your own work commitments back to only four hours per week, while having your bank account swell to fund your custom designed lifestyle of jet-setting, traveling, dancing around in South America and learning foreign languages.
You spend 4 hours a week at work making coffee.
You’ll finish reading this book and have a sense of drive, hopefully you realise that your current situation of converting your time for an income is ridiculous. Do you want a successful career or automated money, deposited into your bank every week, offering you the freedom to do whatever you like? Your friends don’t care that you put in 60 hours at the office this week, but they’ll sit up and take note if you’re cashed up and DON’T have to go to the office.
In the book, Tim Ferriss establishes a protein/supplement product which he sells on line. This is used as his vehicle for automation, dealing with clients, outsourcing tasks, streamlining website sales and generating an income stream.
So there I was, sitting in the airport and pouring through my copy of 4HWW. Almost hiding it from view from people who passed by as if I’d been let in on a secret; lifestyle design, escaping the 9-5 and all that jazz and I didn’t want anyone else to know about it until I’d cracked the code myself.
Skip the first couple of chapters.
If only Tim Ferriss had released a precursor to the Four Hour Work Week. He managed to gloss over it in the book, but in order to build his company and finally crack under the workload of a hundred hours per week, he actually had to build a company. He didn’t manage to fund his ideal lifestyle by:
- writing google Adwords ads to shitty online products and collect an affiliate commission from Clickbank,
- writing some fluffy self help eBook about freeing himself from work and how you can to, by buying the fluffy eBook, which is about how to write your own fluffy eBook and sell it,
- starting a blog, building subscribers and a sense of trust and then try and sell them a product.
Nope, he started a legitimate business & product that provided REAL, tangible and direct value to the customer. Dealt with sales issues & keeping customers happy and then removed himself from the decision tree in an effort to automate.
He started his own company & launched a product, built a client base, managed sales, worked his arse off and then outsourced & automated.
I wish someone had told me this before I read the 4HWW. Everyone reads the book, gets a fuzzy notion that you can sell a crappy product, set up a website, buy a few keywords from google and point them at your site to drive traffic. Now you only need to sell 8 alarm clocks per day to fund your ideal lifestyle.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the 4HWW has sold a truckload of copies. So now everyone has had a wake-up call, sadly every man and his dog are trying to think of the next muse, the next product that can be manufactured in china for 30 cents and drop shipped to needy customers all over the world.
I’d still recommend the book to people, as a starting point. I’m still getting strange looks when I tell people I’ve thrown my job in to finish off my muse, build a client base and focus on marketing and sales.
The 4HWW is a snap shot of what Tim had accomplished; it glossed over his hard yards and focused on the jet setting, the automation and the lifestyle. It makes a good story and acts as a good first step for people who are stuck in the 9 – 5 to realise that there ‘might’ be something else out there. I can definitely credit the book with giving me the kick in the arse I needed.
What’s been your experience since reading the 4HWW? Have you read it? Are you still trying to think of the ever elusive muse?
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Monday Mornings – One Thousand Seven Hundred To Go…
Hip hip hooray, we’ve survived the worst of the Global Financial Crisis… Wait, what? What crisis? Oh that’s right, consumers in too much debt, over their heads, and banks giving it to them. Or was it the media talking about a ‘looming’ crisis, so we stopped spending our money and guess what happened? – A crisis. Make a prediction, instil fear, sit back and watch it pan out, confirm prediction, rinse, repeat.
How does this help you and me and can we learn from it? So we’ve had the GFC, now I’m in the middle of a QLC – Quarter Life Crisis for those of you wondering. I think we can learn from big business and the state of the working world and embark on our own individual QLC, instead of sitting around and waiting for it to happen.
Are you stuck in a job you don’t particularly like? Your finances a bit out of control? Heading down a road that doesn’t look too appealing? You can stop it all and act now, or wait until you’re 35, overweight, sitting on your couch with your second husband/wife and three ‘miracles of life’ running around the house screaming their heads off.
Your own personal business (you) has assets, an income stream, has a research & development department (potentially) and you could (should) also have a business plan, your future goals.
Numbers Game
Let’s say you’re successful, worked hard, took time out to travel in between and managed to retire at 55. Now at 55, you can start enjoying yourself…
Sorry to spoil the party, but you;
- Worked for about 70,000 hours
- Enjoyed getting out of bed 1,700 times on a Monday morning
- Spent almost 15,000 hours commuting in peak hour traffic
And you know those annoying co-workers who gave you the shits? You’ve had to say hello to them every morning – about 8,000 times.
You must have REALLY enjoyed your job.
Hopefully, you’re a few years away from your own personal QLC, so you can ready yourself and be prepared.
The Alternative?
Let’s say you don’t mind a nice holiday, you could spend the next 6 months saving your butt off for your one month holiday, but why not spend the next 6 months setting up a location independent job/income stream and travel indefinitely? Sure it’s nice to go to Bali for a week because everything is SO cheap, but what if you could live wherever you wanted, spend rupiah/pesos/thai baht and continue to earn dollars or pounds?
You don’t know what you don’t know…
If you spent 20 minutes of your lunch break researching, everyday for the next year, that’s the equivalent of 80 hours full time study, two whole weeks! Imagine what you could learn about in two weeks? Here’s the kicker, and you might have to read this slowly for it to hit you, you don’t know what you don’t know. The ultimate chicken/egg conundrum.
Here’s a shortlist of what you could learn in two weeks;
- How to profit unbelievably from a company’s shares that plummet downwards!
- How to make money from a website/blog
- How to reduce your tax rate to around 12-16%
- How to make some pocket money easily using Google
- How to develop a website from scratch in an afternoon!
- How to control $27,000 worth of stock for $1,500.
- How to live a location independent lifestyle, turning your current employment situation into one of no fixed address…
The list could go on for a long while yet, but the idea is to inspire you to take some action! You really ‘don’t’ know what you don’t know, you should have been taught along the way, maybe at a… ‘school’? But hey, if you were taught how to make money without working, then you wouldn’t go to work, follow the ‘normal’ path or be under some sort of …. ‘control’? There’s something to think about! 
(And too much of an issue to delve into here!)
28 Days in the Free World
If and when you decide to ‘have a go’ and step out of employment, take a chance on yourself and see what it’s all about, you don’t have to tell the world! Or launch a website and tell everyone what you think of the working world! Unfortunately, or fortunately, I did?…
I could tell you that the free world outside of employment is all sunshine and lollipops, it will be soon, but establishing things does take some initial time & effort and in spite of everything I’ve read that clearly says “don’t quit your job first”, I chose to ignore that!
You know that feeling you get when you resign from one job, and are yet to accept another? Complete freedom, like a childhood summer holiday from school, 3 months off, sunshine, sleeping in… Well that’s never going to happen again! Once you make a commitment to pay yourself for a few months, now who are you ripping off if you sit around and waste time during the day, no more paid facebook unfortunately…
The first 28 days in the free world has been an eye opener, but very productive. There’s no longer a 5 day working week. Life, work, play, socialising and exercise, everything rolls into one….
Here are the highlights of the first month;
- ‘Finally’ figured out how to get free $ transfers to the US (options trading)
- Made $3,280 from a $1,200 investment (Very excited about the prospects of this!)
- Took some cool photos of my rather annoying nieces1
- ‘Found’ Locationindependent.com (thanks Wayde!)
- Have had A LOT more time to work on the software development side project (coming soon)
- Got asked to write a guest post for website-in-a-weekend.net (about being a complete beginner but learning how to develop websites)
- Setup a small business for some summer pocket money
- Made my first ‘premium’ website!
All of the above was MUCH better than being stuck at work. This next month will be more of the same, possibly setup a photography side project1, toy around with a few other websites, write a few more articles for the free world, who knows? But I do know that I won’t dread getting up on a Monday or have to commute in peak hour traffic.
If you’ve got a spare minute, head to Location Independent, they’ve got a truck load of resources and articles to read through. Read the last paragraph of ‘one idea’ and take a look at any of the free resources there.
I’d like to hear from you. What are you working on? What do you want to work on? Is work killing all of your motivation? Want anymore information or have you got any suggestions for article topics? Feel free to leave a comment, share this with your friends or send me an email. I’ve read more than my share of books & start-up guides, there’s a fair chance I’ll be able to help if you’ve got an idea you want to launch!
What else can you do? I’m going to focus my upcoming articles on a bit more in-depth ‘how to’ get involved in some of the things i’ve mentioned previously in this article, subscribe to the site (below) and you’ll receive the latest articles in your email.
And keep in mind, if you don’t initiate your own Quarter Life Crisis, you’ve got 1,700 Monday mornings ahead of you!
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Is this it?
Did you wake up this morning, alarm set as the same time as yesterday, and the day before, and tomorrow? You might drive a different way to work, or wear an obscene tie that doesn’t match, just to mix things up. Ever wake-up to the alarm on a Saturday? And on auto-pilot find yourself in the shower way too early, only to laugh annoyingly at the fact that you have a day off but still got up for the Monday – Friday routine?
I want to tell you that ‘this’ isn’t it… There’s more out there for you, you can have and do whatever you want, but unless you scratch the miracle lotto ticket or a long lost relative leaves you a heap of cash, you’re going to have to make the changes yourself.
So what are you doing? Shuffling papers, working towards next Tuesday’s deadline, sucking up to your boss, hiding in your cubicle or trying to figure out which way you can sit at your desk and not get caught having a snooze? Just for a minute take some time to think about how your life would be if you were enjoying yourself all day, every day?
What do you do?
I want a world where you strike up a conversation with a stranger, when they ask you what it is that you do for a living, you don’t answer with what you get paid for, you answer what you love doing. Unfortunately we spend too much time of the week earning a crust that we adopt our mindless job as ‘what we do’. It’d be nice to meet someone and automatically answer with – I’m a; Photographer, Surfer, Musician… anything that YOU love doing. I want to know what YOU DO, not what you get paid for.
You’re saving your money, putting some aside for the glory years, maybe a holiday once every now and then and some investments here and there for retirement. If money buys you time (retirement), then when do you declare there’s enough money to spend it on time? Is a lengthy retirement really the goal? Why can’t you have your freedom now or a little bit here and there? If you do have a prosperous retirement then you’ve probably worked too hard to get there and won’t know what to do with yourself.
The Epiphany
My realisation came at work, having a conversation with an older co-worker, he was telling me how he’d recently sold a fishing trawler for well over a couple of million bucks cash, $2m cash! After I slapped him around and beat some sense into him* I clicked that for a lot of people, work isn’t the thing that people do for money, it’s just a thing they do, it’s the norm, it’s their life. Friends, the routine, the auto-pilot; something has gone terribly wrong here?
So What?
I want you to take some time out to REALLY think about what you’re doing at work and why you’re doing it. Can you remove the safety blanket of the weekly paycheck and take a chance on yourself?
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The Work Life Balance
Work
What are you working for? If you had the choice, if someone paid your bills and expenses would you still go to ‘work’? No one within their right mind would prefer to go to spend their time trapped in the cubicle, or wearing ‘that’ uniform, digging holes, standing at the check-out…
You could be stuck in the 9 – 5, the daily grind. The sad thing is, some people are actually envious of the 40 hour work week, as they’re working ridiculous overtime as it is!
Before I dive into this article, I’d like to qualify ‘work’ as the drudgery, the place you’d least like to be. Some of us are lucky enough to enjoy our jobs and don’t see it as work at all, congratulations to you small few as you’ve already got the work/life balance sorted out. As for the rest of us…
I’ve come to discover it is definitely all about the journey and you should be spending your time doing what you want. Sure work is a must for some but it should be an 8 hour inconvenience to your day (if that), not the be all and end all. Life is all about the 1% moments.
Life
I’m more confused than ever, as people look forward to their 4 week annual holiday. 4 weeks? You’ve worked for 48 weeks, to be rewarded with 4 weeks of your own time? Don’t you see something wrong with that? Wouldn’t it be nice to have more time off, more often?
It’s taken me three full time jobs and a university degree to realize the working world is not for me. I get laughed at when I say I wouldn’t mind retiring next year (by retire, I mean retire from being ‘employed’). People comment that they’d ‘get bored’. Now they’re usually my friends or work colleagues, but seriously, is your life that boring that you need to have someone else give you a set of mundane tasks for 8 – 10 hours of the day to fill it up? You can’t entertain yourself for more than a few hours a night?
One of my good friends and I quite often have a laugh about trying to increase the ‘hobbies and interests’ component of our lives. I’ve taken great pride in being able to introduce friends to kayaking, golf, beers, anything! There’s plenty to do. There’s plenty that you don’t know how to do, so learn it!?
I’m not saying that throwing the towel in at work is the answer, but at least remember why you’re working in the first place. It’s not because you’re trying to increase profits for the share holders, it’s not because you love your company, it’s so you can fund your lifestyle. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to de-couple your time from your income?
Balance
Look around you. Everyone is ‘too busy’. Too busy doing what? Writing reports, filing, sending emails, reading blogs!? I’m not religious at all, but I do believe in the minimalist. De-clutter your life, your time, possessions, even to the point of your associates and commitments. Focus on what and who is important to you. For a wake-up call you definitely need, read Steve Pavlina’s blog on why you shouldn’t be working for anyone but yourself and that being employed is the dumbest way to make money! And after you’ve read that and you’re either seething with rage or disgusted at yourself as Steve points out how you’ve been begging for scooby snacks your whole working life then grab yourself a copy of Tim Ferriss’s ‘Four Hour Work Week’ which will help you get out of the rat race and onto bigger and better things.
Whether you’re a lowly paid office grunt, a manager, a cleaner, nurse or garbage man, if you’re employed you are getting paid for your time. If you put in big 16 hour days in the office, congratulations, you’ve been giving yourself a 50% pay cut! It’s no wonder your bosses love you, you’re cheap labour!
In the overall scheme of the work life balance, you’re aim should be to increase the ‘life’ quota. Educate yourself, I’m sure you’ve met my friend Google, knock yourself out.
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