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5 Reasons Why You Should Quit Your Mundane Day Job
The slumping nine to five zombie in me has awaken. I have now been enlightened as to why people quit their day jobs. The mundane, stark and repetitive view of the world is drowning my mind. I feel as though most low to mid level nine to five jobs are like a shackle on your brain and a imprisonment of free thought.
While this is not true for everyone (especially those at smaller, more independent companies & startups), for the majority of the population this is a daily reality. Especially for those of us who work at large soul-devouring corporations.
I mean let’s face it. How many people do you know actually enjoy their nine to five office job? The sad reality is that almost all of us stuck here have to stay because there are no other options. However, this isn’t always the truth, if you are motivated and willing enough - there are ways to escape. Don’t worry, we’ll be making a “5 Reasons Why You Should Keep Your Job” soon enough.
1. Don’t work for the ‘man’, be the ‘man’.
For those of us not in the top .05% of all the companies across the world, we inevitably work for someone else. That someone else, we call ‘the man’. On top of that, over 70% of us work more strenuously than our bosses (BusinessWeek). Madness.
If you quit your job and go on to start your own business, company or project, you’ll be the head honcho. Decisions will be made by you and you will reap the benefits. The downside of this simple fact is that you have to motivate yourself to do better, there will most likely not be anyone there to push you.
2. Traffic? Commuting Horrors? Not anymore.
Does it take you three hours on the I-95 to get to your crummy desk? Not anymore. If you’re working from home take the time to roll out of bed, put on your comfiest pair of PJ’s and plop yourself down in your nice big leather computer chair. Food? No problem. Roll over to the fridge (if your chair has wheels of course) and make yourself a sandwich!
3. Freedom.
Do whatever the hell you want. You don’t need your boss over your shoulder checking to see if you’re dotting your i’s and crossing your t’s on your TPS reports. Half hour lunch breaks and smoke breaks are out the window, take it when you god damn please.
4. Tax deductible.
A key point to working from home is that nearly everything is tax deductible when you do so. No more pesky corporate taxes and what not.
5. Make your own vacations.
Feel like a nice Bahamian breeze? Take the weekend off, grab your laptop and head over to the nearest JetBlue terminal at your local airport. Do some work wirelessly as you sit and wait for your flight.
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(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 4:36 pm)
Excellent reasons. Not that I needed more
Have you quit your day job?
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(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 6:36 pm)
Being a student is bliss
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:11 pm)
Written like someone who knows not of which he speaks.
Having your own business is much harder than working for “The Man”.
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 10:35 pm)
@selfemployed
I’ve been there, and done it. I freelanced projects and started up several of my own (which I still run today) for about a year and a half (solely) before I sat back down with a corporation.
It is harder work, I won’t argue that and I never said that. I said that it is more “strenuous” to work at a corporation.
In my experience, working for myself was way less stressful.
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 12:27 am)
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Oh? I didn’t realize. What sort of projects?
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True, not in so many words but the implication is there.
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I couldn’t disagree more. Working for someone else is almost always less strenuous for reasons too numerous to list, not the least of which is that you are not responsible for paying the bills. As you probably know, business failures often boil down to money (mis)management.
I own a business supplying safety equipment and training to commercial and industrial clients. Annual sales are a bit under 7 mil. It’s really a micro- company. Even calling it a small business might be a bit of a stretch. The company is fifteen years old this August. It’s quite profitable. Conversely, however, also extremely difficult, stressful and I’d say it has engulfed the rest of my life. Far more so than any office/cubicle/factory/McJob I’ve ever held and there were plenty of those in my younger days. There’s just no comparison. It still requires my near-daily attention and guidance, which is not to impugn the caliber of my staff. It’s just the nature of the beast.
I respectfully disagree with many of your points but you are bang-on when you say that no one else will motivate you. You most certainly have to motivate yourself - day in and day out - if you are serious and wish to actually make a living. No question about it.
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 12:34 am)
Oh dear, I’ve ruined the coding. My first and second remarks are in response to your first and second paragraphs in your second post.
My third remark, the emphatic disagreement, was with your statement that it’s more strenuous to work for a corporation.
The rest is obviously the blatherings of a jaded self-employed person who needs to get some shut-eye. G’night, nice talking to you.
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 12:38 am)
@selfemployed
Great points.
I guess it comes down to the companies. In my personal experience at the current corporation I work at (as an IT head) is dismal.
My boss and my bosses boss take hour and a half lunch breaks, come and go whenever and basically just send things down the ladder for other people to finish.
Sure, they’re on important calls with clients and zipping up spreadsheets meanwhile they tell me to code an inline AJAX editing function for our intranet database because they think it would be ‘cool’.
I guess it’s different with every situation, but as I said before, great points and a great discussion. Hope to hear from you again, cheers.
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 1:18 am)
I think it depends on who you are and where you currently are in your life. I don’t like working for others but I have done so for the last 4 years at home. I think it was a fair compromise :c). I got to sit at my own box and do really whatever I wanted as long as my work got done. Some people just do better working for others also, because it is less responsibility. Overall its just different for everyone. Different strokes for different folks.
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 7:03 pm)
Yup..that’s it. I’m quitting.
(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 3:41 pm)
Hands-down, #1 takes the cake. Everyone is not going to do it because they don’t have the mentality, but you really gotta look in the mirror and want to make a difference in your life. Damn good post.
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(On Jul 31st, 2007 at 12:28 am)
Working from home can be a great idea but one should have a steady stream of income/clients to be able to work from home easily without the fear of running out of work or clients. But I’d love to give up my 9 to 5 job and sit home and work