Are You Thinking
About Quitting Your Job?
The security of a job makes it
difficult for one to just quit your lovely job. How about getting a check
directly deposited into your account. The health care and the other benefits.
All these are worth taking insults from your boss that you don't care about. I
am not asking to quit your job yet, but I am asking you to consider a side business
that you can start spare time. I plead
with you in all sincerity, don't wait to get fired before you start thinking
about starting a business.
The job market as we know it has
changed. Not too
long ago my computer crashed about 1:00 am in the morning. I was desperate to
get it fixed and guess what - I was able
to get a company in India that was able to fix my computer remotely. The guy I
was talking to informed me that they have over 36 million customers all over
the world especially from the US. I was very impressed and they were very
efficient. And note the time difference
- It was about 9:00 am Indian time. Why am I telling you this? Outsourcing
job oversees is disturbing the job
market big time and we have to be aware of it.
Technology is replacing people. Think about all the jobs that
is being replaced by robotics to bring efficiency into the market place.
Please don't get me wrong we need efficiency in the market place. Just
remember that most of the jobs that have been replaced will not come back.
Another thing is that most big corporations don't really care about you. All
they want to do is milk you. What do you think about a CEO paying himself $20
million dollars a year and you are over there making $12.00 an hour. Can you
use $12.00 an hour to raise a family? We are out of the recession, but companies
keep laying off people. Why?
Wall Street. What about wall
street? It is
just a giant legalized casino with a herd mentality. Sure you can make some
money, but you really have to be an insider . You can make some money, but there
is no science to it. Let us say you have all retirement money locked into the
market and it crashes, just before your retirement. Listen, Wall Street does
not care about you. Please start your own business and control your destiny.
Temporary Agencies are the
leading employers
- Most of the jobs being created are low wage service industries or in
temporary part-time positions "underscoring that 'new normal' offered by
American (and world ) capitalism is a new poverty condition. Temporary employment rose by 30,000.
The number of Americans with part-time jobs who want full-time work jumped by
278,000 to 7.9 million. Folks this is going to be the normal, because
corporations want to increase their profit and are not willing to pay benefit
to full time workers. It is as simple as that!!
Corporate
Pay Structure - corporate pay structure are designed to keep
you glued to the corporate structure. A leading business executive admitted
that "corporate pay scales are delicate structures designed to keep
workers, managers and officers of the corporation satisfied, happy, and
striving for more, while the corporation remains profitable". According to
him the aim of corporate profitability is to keep taking in younger people at
the lowest level and moving them up and very gradually increasing their pay.
The net result is to make the employee, at some state of his or her career, a captive of the
corporation.
The
Law of Diminishing Returns - It is an economic concept, but I will apply
it here - The longer you stay on your job, the more the company believes that
you are disposable. Psychologically, you are dependent on them because now you
are married, have children and you cannot just quit your job!!
Do
what you like the best - What is your passion? Convert what you like
doing into a business and the money will follow. Learn to create your own
business. "The asset column has no glass ceiling."
Great article & advice.
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