Men of Reddit, how do you deal with the fact that after college, you basically just work until you die?
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The Full Time Job Virus Preface “Men of Reddit, how do you deal with the fact that after college, you basically just work until you die?” This question amassed 17,500 upvotes on the ‘Ask Men’ page of Reddit.com. Although not specific to males only, it is very apparent that the idea to ‘work till you die’ has become outdated. There isn’t a whole lot of people wanting to work for a wage that never feels like enough, investing their most valuable currency (time) and brain power to a company that doesn’t give a shit about them. Consumerism, sleep deprivation, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, stress and broken relationships are just some of the symptoms of the full time job virus. A pandemic that has spread across the world, from one 9-5 rat to the other. You may think none of these symptoms effect you or your loved ones but the virus runs deeper than you realise. Do you feel as though you spend too much money? Like you haven’t gotten enough sleep since summers off from school? Are you pissed off? I am. We spent our childhood and youth in school as if it was normal and what did we get from all those years? The opportunity to compete against fellow classmates for grades on a test that does not resemble real life? We didn’t get taught practical skills that would help us. All of those years just so we could qualify ourselves for full time jobs. Raised like cattle in school just to be milked for 50 years until we die. Fucking disgusting. This eBook aims to solidify your belief that full time jobs are horrible for humans and provides a step by step, practical guide on how anyone (that means you, dumbass) can replace their full time job with online income from projects they are actually passionate about. If you follow the advice in this eBook you will go from working 60 hour weeks for your boss to eventually being a self employed creative, spending your work time producing something that can be placed on the internet, and with that potentially become viral. That is how we cure ourselves of the full time job virus. Things will be broken down and explained in a way that you know is true but that no one else has highlighted to the public. This eBo ok will challenge your commitment to your job, company and boss. You may believe you still act as an individual but we often start placing an subconscious empathises on the people and place we spend our time in. In other words, the longer you work at a full time job for, the more you feel committed to them, sacrificing your own life progress to better the profits for your boss. How nice of you. Pussy. It’s time to start taking that energy and brain power to create something solely for yourself. Creative projects that cure you of the full time job virus. Chapter 1 The Facts Are you happy working 60 hours a week? Oh, you say your job is only 40 hours a week? When you add together the time it takes to wake up, get ready, commute, get to work a little early, leave work a little late, commute home and settle down 5 times a week, it’s more like 60. Also don’t forget about the fact that you are spending valuable time (weekends) recovering from your job instead of creating something. It’s probably contributing to your substance abuse problem too. I bet you could correlate a bunch of negative factors in life (sadness, depression, sleep deprivation, substance abuse, neglecting family) with being in full time employment. So, I will ask you again. Are you happy working 60 hours a week? Full time jobs are like a virus. What was once a respectable method of gaining income has now been mutated to exploit workers and maximise profits for corporations. We have been brainwashed to believe those who are not in consistent employment are lazy, drug addicts. If only you knew how many workers, especially the middle to upper level rats, snort cocaine and binge drink alcohol multiple times a week. The life of working 60 hour weeks leaves little else for enjoyment so these unfortunate souls take substances to alter their reality, because, why the fuck would they want to live their lives? Why would anyone be happy spending their life fighting for the scraps whilst ensuring their boss makes profit from them. Our culture has mutated to focus on overworking and productivity. This can be positive for ourselves but it becomes a negative factor when we overwork for someone else. Having a great work ethic and productivity are valuable skills to have, if you are using that to YOUR advantage. If you are using the same great work ethic to make someone else money, what the fuck are you doing with your life? Slaving away for a set wage. Waking up sleep deprived to an alarm clock. Fuck sake you are literally fucking up your health (the most important thing ever) to make money for someone else. Have some respect for yourself, your health and those who matter most to you. That most likely doesn’t include the company, or your boss so set your priorities straight. Here’s a secret… Jobs are outdated. Have you ever heard of the internet? Bet you have. Take those same skills you have (plus develop new ones, more discussed later) and put them on the internet. Suddenly you have a small percentage chance of getting viral, and with that, becoming a millionaire. Seriously. Just by putting something you have created online a very small chance for your creation to explode in popularity and for your life to change through one project. You might think that you may not have the talent or luck to ever get viral like the other shit you have seen shared online but that is exactly the point. The internet is so volatile that potentially anything could become viral and just about anyone can get famous for any reason. Think of all the stupid shit you have seen become world famous. Think deeper about the creator of that stupid shit. Often times they are regular people who were simply just active online, posting their content and eventually (because of the small percentage chance to become viral) one of their creations was picked up (usually on social media) and shared hundreds of thousands of times. Suddenly this regular person has created fame overnight. Think about those random ‘one hit wonder’ songs from artists who dropped off the face of the earth after their song got viral. You know where they went? They retired. Because of one viral creation they got to retire with a life of luxury before they were 30. Sounds fucking great doesn’t it? Or instead you could work 60 hour weeks till you are 75 (since retirement age will be raised in our lifetime). The same ‘potential virality’ cannot be achieved through working a basic full time job. What is the cap, the potential maximum earnings of a job? A starting wage plus shitty benefits (free fruit Fridays!!!!! We are like a family here!! Casual dress days!!!!) and potentially a wage increase every 6 months if you get promoted consistently (is that even realistic?). The rise of mental illness issues perfectly correlates with modern day work culture that revolves around full time employment. You want to know why so many people are depressed and anxious? Because of full time jobs. There I fucking said it. I’m tired of us beating around the bush. These kids go to school knowing all life is for them is to finish education with average grades, get shitty jobs after shitty jobs for 5-10 years and likely have children unexpectedly which causes further debt and reliance on full time jobs/second jobs. But don’t worry. There’s a pretty good chance that after 20+ years in the work force, with enough experience of shovelling shit, these kids will be promoted to shit shovelling manager. Now they finally get some sort of power and it almost feels worth it, spending their entire lives to get to the point where they can boss around the pimple faced young adult who reminds them of their youth. What a shit life. Our reliance on full time jobs is the norm for the majority of humans. Who’s fucking idea was this? I’m not trying to revolt and overthrow Capitalism (not yet) but it’s time we stopped being scared of highlighting the exploitative and simply ineffective system. We aren’t in China; we can criticize the system without getting found with bullet holes in our back and a suicide letter. Fuck the system. Everyone is broke. You’re broke. I’m broke. Millionaires and billionaires are broke. Big ass corporations keep going broke and we keep giving them more money. Entire countries are broke and in debt. Everyone is fucking broke but no one has to guts to try to push for a new system. So now that you know the facts, that your full time job takes 60 hours from you a week but you only get paid for 40, that creating something and putting it online has a small chance of getting viral, that you have no chance of getting viral in a basic job and that every fucker is broke in the current system, I will move on. Chapter 2 The step by step guide on how to leave your full time job for online income I thought I would provide you with a practical, step by step guide on how to slowly replace working for ‘the man’ to working for you, man. I wanted to include it here, near the start, so that a plan is immediately available should you wish to cure yourself of the full time job virus. I also appreciate practical advice myself and dislike 200+ page books which give you two sentences of important information. So, let’s skip all that bullshit and tell you exactly what you need to hear. Read each step carefully. Identify exactly where you are and where you hope to be in X months. A full explanation of each step is in the next part of Chapter 2. How to leave your full time job and make online income: 1. Be in full time employment 2. Overlap full time job with work on online projects after your job and on weekends 3. Live frugally and save for a couple of months (depending on your expenses) 4. Reduce job hours from 40 to 24 (from full time to part time) 5. Experience lifestyle deflation (the positive brother of lifestyle inflation, as your hours drop, your wage drops, your spending drops) 6. Hold a part time job you like which has benefits (such as downtime, more explained later) whilst focusing on growing online projects and potentially getting viral 7. Online projects start bringing in income, reduce part time hours further (I am currently on 16 hours a week) 8. Online projects get some popularity 9. Leave the job and focus all efforts on online projects #1 Be in full time employment Step 1 assumes you are in full time employment at the moment. You don’t need a full time job to build an online income but this guide is specifically for those who want to escape the 9-5 rat life. This step is just the starting point. You must identify that this is a journey that not only are you willing to take, you are excited to experience too. This is your moment of taking a massive risk which quite frankly makes life worth living. You will create potential for significant forward growth which generally makes humans feel happy and satisfied with their days but also quite stressed. It’s important to know at Step 1 that this will likely not be an easy journey. Of course working a full time job is not easy anyway. #2 Overlap full time job with work on online projects after your job and on weekends Step 2 requires you to overlap your full time job hours with extra work. I know it sucks. You know why it sucks thinking about doing more work when you come home from work? Because you’re worked out. You’ve spent most of your brain power and efforts to make profits for a company instead of yourself. Shame on you. The only way you will get out of this situation is by focusing what little effort you have left at the end of a workday and weekends on your own projects. This is the step that a lot of mediocre people start piping up and complaining that the world doesn’t work for them. That they don’t want to work more when they come home from their jobs and would rather watch Netflix. Do as you wish. Just remember your actions do genuinely outline your outcome. Personally, watching Netflix is only fun for me after a day of actually accomplishing something. Who the fuck wants to spend their life on the couch like the stereotypical loser everyone told you not to replicate? Enjoy the chill time but AFTER you have created something. Your mental health will thank you. It may be difficult for the first period you are overlapping job hours with online project work but I promise you it will become significantly easier the more you invest into this. The sooner your projects start making money the sooner you can reduce job hours and change up your life. You might ask what online projects are and which you should be working on. Whilst I can tell you that an online project is simply something you can be working on, growing your skills overtime from home through the internet, I can’t tell you which project is right for you. There’s too many. It doesn’t even have to revolve around the internet like you may think. Learning an instrument for example wouldn’t be an online project would it? It can be. To make learning the guitar into an online project you would focus your efforts to creating content to put online. You might think about blogging or creating videos of your journey to learn the guitar but whilst this may work, chances are that no one gives a fuck about your journey to learning the guitar and you will get no more than 50 views on your shitty YouTube video. You know what people care about? Memes. Seriously. Find a smart way to create a stupid but funny meme about you learning the guitar and I guarantee it has a much better chance of getting viral. Good songs don’t get too popular, do they? Memes do. Songs with catchy lyrics that kids can use in their TikTok videos get viral as fuck and turn the creator into millionaires. Anything can be an ‘online project’ in that sense. Literally anything. Choose a couple different projects, activities and hobbies to do most days and then plan out exactly how you will turn that into a profitable online project. Rich people say that you should not be chasing money but instead acquire assets. These are things that we own which are valuable and also make more money the more assets you have and the more time you spend on them. Common assets include rental properties and investments, but we can use the same financial knowledge to place an emphasis on the types of assets we can develop in the comfort of our own homes. Yüklə 297,05 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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