Do you have goals? I am not referring to getting a new lawnmower next year or remodeling the basement, I mean, do you have things you’d like to accomplish with your life? Important things? By the end of this series you should have some good ones. Do you realize that by being an employee for someone else, you are really only helping them achieve their goals? There you are, hard at work, advancing someone else’s goals. Are not your goals just as worthy as theirs? Could it be that you’ve never given serious weight to the idea of advancing and working toward your own goals? It is your right and even your duty to do so, if you have any. Someone may suggest that earning a living is advancing his or her goal. Is that all there is to life, making money to buy things? That’s poverty of the soul. You have a soul, it just needs reawakened. It’s been smothered by a lot of useless cares and burdens, and things that don’t matter.
How is your social life? You probably socialize with people you work with at your job. What has happened when someone was fired or even quit and went sold themselves to some other taskmaster, did the friendship stop? Do you always allow someone else to choose your friends for you? Most companies have get-togethers and Christmas parties. I consider this just forced socialization for the purpose of maintaining group cohesion. These are not people I chose to hang around with, someone else chose them for me. I’m an adult, I can chose my own friends, thank you very much.
Get a job that is secure? How this for security, “you’re fired.” One person- uttering two words- ends your income. It should scare you to death how un-secure this arrangement really is. It is, in fact, quite the opposite of security, let’s call it by a more proper name…insecurity. Yes, having a job is also the most insecure way to earn a living.
“We have an arrangement. We pretend to work…..and they pretend to pay us.” Old Soviet Union saying.