Your Job is Hurting Your Future
Popular belief would tell you that a job secures your future, but the truth is holding a job is the absolute worst thing you can do for your future.
We have two currencies in life our time and our money (or our possessions which have a monetary value). If you are in a job you are selling your time for money. Now on the surface this seems like a good idea; it gives you security knowing that you will have a roof over your head, food on the table, and some quality of life. However, the time you have to give up in exchange for this “security” you can never get back. It is gone for good. This is much like money spent on something that you can’t keep, such as paying rent.
It’s very much an accepted belief that paying rent for any kind of long term is a very poor investment of your money. If you are paying money every month as soon as you stop paying that money you have no accommodation. If you own a house and are paying off a mortgage every month you are owning a little bit more of the house every month. The money is invested in your future as well as your present.
Does it not follow then that how you invest your time now matters too? The time you are giving away to a boss is just like the money you give to the landlord, you have nothing to show for it. As soon as you stop giving your time you stop getting the money. Rent is finite, so much money equals so many months. The value of your time is also finite, you get a salary or an hourly rate. These days even if you stay in a job until retirement the money you can put aside is hardly enough to live comfortably on, and usually not enough to pursue any kind of dream.
How secure is your job anyway? If someone else is choosing how much money you should get for your time, they can decide one day that they no longer want to buy what you’re selling. That your time is no longer worth your salary.
What if you invested your time in yourself? You can use it to build a business that will not only provide you with money down the line, but can free your time as well in the future. Time invested now can mean an early retirement so that you can have more money coming in AFTER you stop putting in the time. That’s what is available to anyone willing to become an entrepreneur.
True, business is risky. Just like buying a house, you could end up with a house that doesn’t suit or that falls in value. In business you could fail, and what would happen if you did? Really think about it. You would have to start over at a different business, or if you wanted to you could start at a new job. Now if failure equals getting a job. How is that different from what you are doing now??? Isn’t it riskier not to do it?
Unlike money, we only get so much time. We can do things to make it last a bit longer, but in the end we only have a finite amount here. This makes it the most precious thing that we have. Knowing that, isn’t it worth more to you than what you are selling it for? I know mine is worth more than any job can ever pay me. So invest your time in yourself, use it to set up and build a business, so that you can call your time your own, so that the business can make money for you and you can claim back your most valuable asset: your time.
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