10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
Posted on July 21, 2006
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StevePavlina.com | 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
At a point in my life when I’m struggling with this issue, Steve’s ideas and experience come at a good time. I have recently come to learn that the self-realisation of the value I provide is a limitation I need to overcome. One needs to see the value that they can provide to others in order to realise that value. Links exploring these ideas appreciated.
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interesting thoughts from a person who have not been employed
i have now reached my one year of non-employment, and i gotta say, i’m pretty impressed with myself and how far i’ve gotten. i’m doing my best to stay away from it and not starve, and every month i get closer to the income i had while i had a fulltime job, but i only work 20 hours a week max… i just leverage my skills better than i did before. maybe you should try it.
Positive self-talk means purposely giving yourself positive reinforcement, motivation, and recognition- just as you would do for a friend. Congratulate yourself when you do well, and remind yourself of your abilities, accomplishments, strengths and skills. Keep a to-do list, check off accomplishments, and review your progress periodically.
Make self-talk work for you. When you habitually say to yourself has a very profound impact on your self-image, your self-esteem, and your performance as well as eventual success. Remember that your subconscious triggers physiological responses to match the pictures and thoughts that you have of yourself to make them happens. Make this work for you by keeping your self-talk positive.
For example say to yourself either ? I did a good job on that changing a friend?s oil even though I took a quart and ? for myself ? or ? I did a good job of not paying a good friend the cost of supplies for the efforts he did for me ?.
Stop negative self-talk. You may well be quick to nag yourself because your mother wanted you to more than perfect. However, negative self talk can be damaging because your subconscious believes what you say to your when you repeat that negative talk in your mind over and over. How is your subconscious to know otherwise? If you catch yourself using negative self-talk, stop and rephrase. Eliminate the negative words. Focus instead on the best course you can take and do it.
Make positive communications a habit. Focus on the positive in goal statements, self-talk, and all communications. Compare the following phrases, and notice how the positive words convey confidence, commitment, and enthusiasm.
For example instead of ?I will try? substitute the phrase ? I will ?. Instead of saying to you ?I should do ?insert the phrase ?I will do ?. Try saying ? I want to ? or ? I choose to? instead of the more common ?I must ?.
Focus with affirmation statements. Affirmative statements are positive self-statements or reminders to help you achieve goals. They are positive messages with a punch ?mental bumper stickers? of sorts to motivate your subconscious mind to work for you.
Here are guidelines to help you to use the powerful tool of affirmative statements as vital mental reminder technique.
1) Make the statements personal to yourself. Not arbitrary or generic. Use the phrase ?I? , your own name , or you
2) Keep affirmations short. How can you use the affirmations if you cannot remember them?
3) Phrase your affirmations positively. The mind accepts as truth the words that you give it. Use positive words only as affirmations. Leave out any negative words. For example say ?I will not be nervous during my interview with the warden ?. Rather say ? I will be calm and self-assured during my interview?
4) Include a positive emotion. A phrase that triggers a positive emotion strengthens the affirmation. For example ?My goals are valuable and it excites me.?
5) Phrase affirmations as fact. Phrase a goal as though it is happening even if you have not achieved it yet. Your subconscious believes mental messages and works to make them a reality.
6) Say your affirmation at least 6 times a day. Repetition is life. Repetition enhances self-confidence, acts as a reminder, and stimulates your subconscious to help you achieve your goals in life.
It cannot be overstated the impact that positive self talk and affirmative statements can help you towards the vital goals that you have identified in your life. Remember that without goals even if you work hard you are like a ship without a rudder.
These powerful tools of positive self talk and positive affirmations can more than help speed you along to your chosen goals.
Shaun Stevens
www.aceemploymentservices.net
I have had “9-5″ jobs in the past, where i was a slave to the master (using Steve’s terminology). The fact that the jobs were ephemeral made me suck it up. I knew there was an end insight, be it 4 months summer jobs, or a 12-stint before university. Facing the reality of 25-30 years of it… different story.
J, thx for the supportive words. Hope you don’t mind if I pick your brain about it every now and again.
That was a nice post by Steve. In the end, you need to spend time working on the things that are important to you. Hacking away as a wage slave isn’t the best way you can spend your days.
I’m also deeply passionate about being self employed. I’m also a strong advocate that our limitations are self imposed.
You may find my blog entries interesting:
http://www.davecheong.com/2006/07/28/are-you-a-happy-employee/
http://www.davecheong.com/2006/06/18/our-limitations-are-self-imposed/
I’m posting here because Steve conveniently CLOSES posting to his website early to limit any real discussion.
As for his bit about why you shouldn’t work for somebody else … wow. This Steve guy is just a LITTLE full of himself. “I make $9000 a month from my rant, and BTW please leave a donation?” Like as if. All people who go out and get a job are “morons”, are they Steve? Everyone on the planet, if they only listened to Stevie, would be earning an income 24/7 with no need to go out and get a job just like your plants grow. Terrific comparison … not!
“My only investment was $9 in a domain name.” … what about the computer? Software? Network connection? Hosting company? Still living with MOM?
Bill O’Reilly makes a pile of dough for tossing out his over-the-top bits of wisdom every day … why can’t you, Steve, make THAT sort of money? Bill probably spends your $9K/month maintaining his POOL. What are you, inept? A moron? What’s wrong with you Steve. Make yourself some REAL money or STFU.
dude, 9000$ a month is over 100,000$ a year. but whatever, to each his own. this isn’t the place to leave a troll comment on his post, though.
Chris, I can agree with you you that Steve’s point of view that not for everyone, and it is not because they don’t have the will to do it. That is an over generalisation. But your argument falls apart when critising his success, like Julien said, he’s making a good living working for himself. One way he makes that living is from the donations link, not in spite of it. Oh, and the Bill O’Reilly example just shows how real information is undervalued and useless/mindless noise gets rewarded in American culture.
MHP, agreed - he’s making a nice living from click-thru’s. But to label the rest of the world morons because they’re not doing the same is a tad self-aggrandizing, don’t you think?
I have learned one thing over the years: telling people how much you make or how much your worth might get a few jaws dropping (depending on the $$$!), but in the end it serves no purpose other than stroking your ego. It also draws in all the vultures who think they can steal some of your sunshine.
But you’re probably right in some respects - Anthony Robbins is a perfect example. Show pictures of his house, his yacht, his glorious lifestyle and then tell people that you TOO can live like him by just following his recipe to success and you’ll make money. There’s nothing wrong with trying to boost someone’s will or enthusiasm, I just don’t agree it should be done by inciting anger or envy.
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I’m at a point in life where I’ve started to work as an independent contractor on projects I can lend skills and expertise to. It’s rewarding both personally and financially and frees my time to chart my course to increased wealth. But to say that nobody should ever get a job, or that you can’t become a millionaire working for someone else isn’t accurate. Case in point Microsoft employees who invested in stock and/or options while working. Same for numerous other workers at companies under the radar. One path isn’t the right path for everyone and there’s more than one way to gain your dream. The Internet and ad revenue is a great opportunity. Maybe wise to combine the B & I quadrants that Robert K. wrote about. Just follow your dream and passion and enjoy the ride.
Steve I have been unemployed most of my life so, the article basically encourages me!!! Unfortunately I never really made any money so I am not sure what to do at this point.
Steve,
Were it only so easy, or indeed possible. In fact most of the tasks in the real world do require some form of associated teamwork that at the present is represented by what you have referred to as wage slaves. It is therefore unrealistic to propose that everyone should simply reject this model and become self employed. That very decision is being made for many wage slaves by empoyers, but not for the high minded reasons stated. Employers all over the world are converting their work forces into self employed contractors in a bid to further avoid their responsibilities to their wage slaves and to cause the slaves to bid their wages and employment conditions down lower still!
The severe imbalance of power that the current system awards employers over the slaves means there is no economic or social balance possible without collective opposition. As individual contractors there is no collective opposition so we end up with the deplorable conditions of which you so succinctly makes us aware.
Although your solution will be available to some, it is only a very small number that are ever successful and it is luck, not good judgement or strong will that is the determining factor in these cases. The real answer is balancing the power between employers and slaves, and, in truth, employers as individuals, whether personal or corporate, probably have no place in a fair society. If everyone was a slave, I guarantee that the rules would suddenly change. As well as all the other conditioning that you so well describe, there is the conditioning that says its fair that if someone has accumulated a lot of money, it somehow gives them the right to a greater slice of societies goodies. Using your own description it is obvious that the vast majority of this wealth has been stolen from the people who actually created it using the power imbalance awarded them by the system. If the system was thus developed in order to create the greatest benefit to society as a whole, instead of at present, just the few who have managed to steal an accumulation of wealth, employment would be every bit as enjoyable as you describe your own situation. Technology has developed to the point, through the efforts of slaves I might add, not the wealthy few, at which the tasks required cold be evenly divided throughout the worlds population and with that done, the amount of work needed for each individual becomes very small indeed.
The control freaks are in the last throes of their fight to prevent this from happening, hence this last ditch assault for world supremacy, but in the wash up, following their inevitable failure, the peaceful existence you describe will eventually prevail for everyone. However the time frame for this to occur is a little less certain.
Hi, I am a maried stay at home mom of one. I am only 24 years old and I completely agree with you Steve. I have thought this way since I graduated high school.(6 years ago) I have had many problems trying to find a way to make an income without having a typical job. I have tried stuffuing envelopes(scam), selling free stuff on the internet, selling e-downloads, selling on ebay, data entry and much more. I have wasted time and money and received nothing in return. Only recently have I started taking online surveys. They are free to join. Some even gave me a sign up bonus. I make a little bit of money doing this but it isn’t enough. I also earn gift cards and earn merchandise. I was wondering if you or anyone else knew something that I could do at home. I love staying home with my son, and if we have more children I would like it to stay that way. Is there anything you know of that doesn’t make you invest a small fortune? I have been looking and looking for years but I just haven’t found anything legitimate or worthwhile. I did attend college but moved to another state and never finished. Please help me, or lead me in the right direction. I am very interested in working at home.I had always worked. I stopped working when I was 8 months pregnant. I am sick of making other people rich! Thanks!
Steve,
loved the article…
I tried all kids of jobs myself and I felt like someone was putting me in a prison and slowly but surely I wouldn’t be able to recognize myself and my dreams anymore… like a lion in a cage… the shine of the eyes dies after a while and you realize you have become a domesticated pet…
some of the people I love the most in my life have jobs, but you know what, that didn’t make it right, I wanted out… it is incredible what the POWER OF A DECISION can do… I decided and within 35 days I was able to walk out a free man…
Now I make more than my CEO! LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT… oh, and I work less than 25 hours a week!
Thanks for the article, couldn’t have put it better myself
Nik D’Angelo
www.MyWinningCareer.com
Stevepavlina, Saint or Scam ?
Further discussion on this link.
http://nicevilblogs.wordpress.com/2006/07/25/stevepavlinacom/
Please check it out, and give your real honest opinions about Steve’s website.
It’s sad that Steve does not give his readers a chance to voice out their real opinions. All the comment postings are closed before any real discussions can be made.
Having been self-employed for almost 30 years, I read Steve’s piece as though he was speaking directly to me. It actually confirmed my strong my strong belief in self-determination. Personally, it is beyond my level of comprehension as to why smart people with exceptional skills and knowledge would so readily choose to auction themselves off to the highest bidder for pennies on the dollar, I guess, for the promise of a (false) sense of “security”. Chances are that they would be much more fulfilled and even see better financial rewards, had they bet on themselves, rather than having some “boss” decide how much they are worth for a week’s worth of work. Self-employment is really the only way to go, if you are really serious about YOUR future.