Men of Reddit, how do you deal with the fact that after college, you basically just work until you die?
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A huge collection of high quality, evergreen content about your project
This is what you should work towards to develop your online projects. It’s extremely unlikely that any one project or piece of content you release will get any decent amount of audience retention or profit. There’s too much shit online so it’s very easy for the masses to overlook one of your pieces. This is why you must create ‘a huge collection’. You cannot spend a great deal of time and effort on one creation and instead streamline a process to get out a large amount of content which is quicker and opens more doorways for users to find you and potentially become loyal followers if they appreciate your content. During this step you will require some critical self-reflection. Hopefully you aren’t one of those ego warriors who can’t admit failures and faults. Being introspective and able to journal your thoughts and beliefs is absolutely essential for you to become a success through this guide. If you can’t admit failure then just fuck off, pussy. If you can then read on. The first thing we are going to be evaluating is our work rate. This you can do just a few days into implementing these steps. Are you developing your online project as much as expected? Or barely working on it? It is fun and exciting for you? Do you feel overworked? Are you coming back from your job and not even bothering to grow your online project? There are hundreds of questions to ask yourself. Journal these. You can’t rely on remembering your complex thoughts, but you can rely on a journal of your thoughts which you can consistently look back on. Get a notepad and pen and be truly introspective. Outlining behaviours or thought patterns you aren’t fond of is very beneficial. This will only work if you are rational and write down nothing but the truth. You might feel awkward writing your thoughts down on paper and perhaps feel a bit scared in case someone reads it. Don’t worry. If you write down your true, unfiltered feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and someone reads it, it’s not the end of the world. In fact, even though it might feel awkward, it would actually be amazing for your relationship with that person. They have just seen the real you. The version of you without the social barriers. That’s real shit. How they behave after reading your journal is a true reflection of how they view the real you. You can then have solid evidence whether this person is a supporter or enemy of you. At this step you will be working your normal job shifts and then coming home to do more work on your projects. It can feel pretty stressful, almost like you get no time off. You may start contemplating if this is all worth it. Personally I think it definitely is but you need to believe it for yourself. You need heighted passion for your end goal. Where do you hope to be? What is the lifestyle you want and are working for? Remind yourself of your goals and exactly why you want to complete that goal. Journal all of these thoughts and look back at them. #3 Live frugally and save for a couple of months (depending on your expenses) Step 3 focuses on damage control. If you don’t have an emergency fund already, I can guarantee your stress levels are higher than they need to be. Step 3 requires you to continue working the full time job you may despise to save up more than you are currently doing, as your monthly wage will soon take a significant hit from step 4. In this stage you should aim to save enough for a stress relieving emergency fund and extra to cover expenses. I have asked you to live frugally during this time so that you get into the habit of cutting unnecessary spending. Don’t worry if you struggle at this step and find it difficult to save/live frugally. We are living in a consumer orientated world. By reducing consumerism, you will realistically reduce how well you ‘fit in’ this world. There’s nothing glamorous about saving money. You won’t make friends being frugal. You will however set yourself up with valuable habits that will benefit your life long after the negatively affected social experiences disappear. In this step you want to have enough funds so that when you cut your job hours from 40 (5 days a week) to 24 (3 days a week) you will not be stressed. #4 Reduce job hours from 40 to 24 (from full time to part time, your job might not allow you to do this so you may need to just get a part time job) Step 4 is likely the most important step of all and the real barrier to why we all don’t achieve more. We are quite frankly spending too much damn time at work. By reducing your hours from 40 to 24 not only are you drastically freeing up your week by saving 16 hours of actual work, you also likely save 2 days of that whole bullshit of getting ready, commuting there and back, getting settled. That’s an extra 6 hours a week you’ve just gifted to yourself. You should hopefully know by now that the most valuable currency by far is time. Time is the one thing even billionaires cannot afford to waste. Having the guts to preform Step 4 gives you around an extra 22 hours a week to spend on online projects. Sure, you take a monthly wage cut which means that you will have to reduce expenses and ‘get by’ instead of spending money excessively but that is the whole point isn’t it? You weren’t happy working the full time job knowing that you had nothing else planned for your life. You eventually wanted to stop working and do your own thing right? This is the first major step to getting there. The act of reducing your job hours increases the amount of free time you have. You trade probably a few hundred £ a month for an extra 88 hours. You have 88 hours to make something that can effectively negate the drop in salary. You are now not just a worker. You are spending half your time working for someone else and half pursuing an online project of your choice. You feel alive. You can finally, guilt and stress free, write that shitty eBook, learn to code, build a following, whatever. You can spend a huge amount of time on any online project you fancy. It’s quite a refreshing feeling, waking up knowing that today I’m going to be learning about some random project that I got the urge to do. I almost feel like I’m a child back in school again without the shittiness of getting woke up by your parents. When you develop online projects you instantly get more control of your life. You can choose what time to wake up. Where to develop the project. Do you enjoy working from home? It’s nice to not have to commute. Maybe you are someone who does all-nighters and cracks out a week’s worth of work in one night. Pretty exciting. Perhaps you prefer to work from different cafes around your area which would be a nice novelty feeling. When you develop online projects, you get control of these variables and that makes humans feel very good. The initial drop in salary at this stage will likely scare some people off. You have a consistent full time employment and you are voluntarily reducing your hours in a world where people are desperately increasing theirs. Just this sentence alone should make you feel like you are going in the right direction. The overwhelming majority of people are broke 9-5 rats who regret working so long and you are literally doing the opposite of them, working less. Creating more. You carve your own path away from the herds of sheep but you will have plenty of mental blocks before actually reducing your hours from 40 to 24 or getting a part time job. Unsure what kind of part time job to look for? Read on to step 6 (don’t skip step 5 though) #5 Experience lifestyle deflation (the positive brother of lifestyle inflation, as your hours drop, your wage drops, your spending drops) So, there is definitely going to be some people reading this who argue the logistics would not work for them. Hopefully they chose to continue reading to this step so that I can explain a weird, risky concept which was the main reason I was able to reduce my hours immediately. Lifestyle INflation (notice the IN) refers to our spending increasing or inflating due to a change in circumstances. Let’s just use you for an example. You are currently working and receiving £1100 a month take home pay without much focus on budgeting and whatever, just spending normally. When you receive a raise or different job that brings in £1400 a month take home pay, are you consistently going to be saving or investing £300 a month? You might believe you would, but the statistics don’t lie. The overwhelming majority of people will automatically inflate their lifestyles and spending to meet the new wage. Sure, you might end up saving a bit more per month but generally, making more money simply means spending more. There’s always something to buy isn’t there? That’s lifestyle inflation. Put simply it means: Earning More = Spending more Now the interesting and risky part comes when we discuss lifestyle deflation. This is the opposite of lifestyle inflation in that when you earn less money, you spend less. Say you are on £1100 a month. If you were suddenly reduced to £800 a month would you die? Would that be the end of your life? Probably not. You would have two choices: 1. Get another job so you can get the extra £300 to spend monthly 2. Spend less Which do you think is easier and saves more of the most important currency (time)? Option 2. When you think about it this way you start seeing the argument against full time jobs much more clearly. If you could survive and begin to grow your online projects on the part time wage, the only reason to be on a full time wage is simply to get more of a wage to spend. By working full time you sacrifice time and effort so that you can spend more. Consumerism is a symptom of the full time job virus. There’s even more to consider. You remember the lifestyle inflation equation: Earning More = Spending more Well we have to add more variables to this equation for it to be more realistic: Working More = Earning more = Spending more + Recovering from work more One thing we often forget is how much of our time we lose outside of work simply due to us working long hours. If you come home from your full time job and don’t want to create anything, instead want to chill and play games or watch Netflix, you are now losing your own free time to recover from working. You are probably delaying sleeping till a little later because you haven’t had enough fun in the day yet. You are probably taking some kind of substance to negate the shittiness of working a job/living a life you aren’t happy with. So working more hours past a part time level (16-24 a week) means that you will earn more of a wage at the end of the month, but due to working longer you will likely spend more money when outside of work, be sleep deprived, solidifying drug addictions and worse of all, ruining your mental health for the benefit of the company. Here’s the thing. All of these steps entail a form of risk. Some more than others. It seems scary right? What if things don’t go to plan? What if something messes up and you end up broke? Aren’t you kind of broke already? Aren’t you kind of unhappy already? Is your full time job completely risk free? There’s definitely no risk in you ever losing your job or getting fucked over? There is risk all around us, especially in full time employment. You are at risk of losing your job, losing promotions, the whole company going bust, global pandemic shutting it all down and leaving you wage-less. When you really think about it, working on online projects is actually pretty safe in some sense. All of the profits are yours. You aren’t going to fire yourself. If a crisis happens you will still be receiving money around the clock (including whilst sleeping!) unlike the poor folks who rely on jobs. This all relates to Step 5 as lifestyle deflation is a hidden risk minimiser. By taking the leap to reduce your hours and therefore take a reduced wage, you are acknowledging that ‘it will just work’ and you will automatically end up spending less money than you thought you vitally needed. Now you have lower expenses and also a lot more free time to create. For reference, when I was at this step and understood lifestyle deflation, I quit my full time job and got a 16 hour a week part time job knowing that only getting paid £570 a month would mean that I could only spend £570. So I spent money on rent and bills and food and bought nothing else. Instantly it felt like I didn’t even work a job anymore. Only going to work twice a week created so much damn free time it felt like I was in summer vacation. #6 Hold a part time job you like which has benefits whilst focusing on growing online projects and potentially getting viral Not all part time jobs are created equal. Some still feel like a full time job. Let me tell you the story of how I went from a 40 hour a week job to a 25 hour part time job to a 16 hour job all in the space of a week. Yes, literally 3 jobs in a week. I was working a basic 9-5 job when developing these ideas. I grew a bit of online income and was bringing in around £200 a month from random online projects like reselling on eBay. Time was the biggest issue. I felt like I couldn’t develop my current projects further as I was spending all my damn time at work. Waking up at 5.30am everyday (even weekends) to lift weights and get my HIIT in. By the time I would get home I really could not be arsed with working more. So I requested to go part time at my current job. I asked to remove 2 days a week from my schedule so that I could work 3 days, 24 hours a week. It would have been a pay cut but honestly not a huge one as the part time hours would have kept me below paying income tax. The managers at my job fucked around for weeks saying they would make it work and, in the end, said they had a business need for my role to be 5 days a week. Fair enough. I said I would search for part time jobs now and told them I would continue working there until I find one. I applied for a couple of positions that day at lunch time. I took a call in the toilet whist still on shift. Booked a part time job interview for the next day. Told the manager I was going to take a half day off for it. They were fine with that. I’m fucking great at interviews and got offered the part time job there and then and I accepted. I came into my full time job after lunch for my half day shift. Gave in my one weeks notice. Everyone was quite shocked I went and got a position within 24 hours. I like telling that story. Here’s the problem. It wasn’t all sunshine after that. A week later I left my full time job and started the part time role which was Monday – Friday 5 hour shifts for a total of 25 hours. It seemed like a big improvement from my full time role as I would be able to get home at like 2pm and grind my online projects. That didn’t happen. For the next few days I would get home and end up chilling, smoking weed from 2pm. I barely did any extra online project work which was the whole point of this. Here is the critical step. I became introspective. Remember what I said about journaling your thoughts in Step 2? I did this. I wrote down that the 5 hour shifts still kind of felt like a whole lot of effort. I would be quite tired and exhausted after the shift and just want to chill all day. I did it 3 days in a row and knew that it was a problem that would only get fixed if I put in the effort to fix it. So I began journaling and expressing my thoughts to the paper. The new Yüklə 297,05 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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