Truth Bomb Tuesday: Why are we surprised people hate their job.
Getting your first job is a milestone moment in life. You’re standing on your own two feet. You’re going it alone. This is where adulthood finally begins.
Getting a job is wonderful.
And society wants to celebrate you. You’re not a free-loader anymore. You’re not a bum. You’re pulling your weight. You’re doing your bit. It’s a wonder someone doesn’t give you a medal really.
And so having a job is how you tell the world that you’re an adult now and a ready to contribute to society.
How glorious.
But then after a few years we look up and go, “Hang on. I’m not having all that much fun here.
“I spend most of my week doing what someone else tells me to do. There so much I want to do with my life, and its way more than I can pack into a weekend or a few weeks off a year.”
And that’s when we’re young and still full of beans.
As we get older, it starts to take more of a toll. You’re muscles ache from too much time on the tools. Or your eyes hurt from too many screens. You’re tired all the time, and it’s hard to stay away from the drink each night.
Your relationships suffer. Your eyes lose their sparkle. You’re lust for life is on the couch watching re-runs of Friends.
And now you start to think, maybe having a job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And you start to hear stories of people who don’t have jobs. They’ve nutted out how the system works, and they’ve made it work for them.
They’re doing what they want, when they want. Their lust for life is a raging fire, and they’re full of vitality.
Even their skin looks better.
What’s their secret?
Now you find yourself wondering about it regularly. You tell people that maybe you too want to not have a job. Maybe you too want to build systems of passive income. Maybe you too want to have the financial freedom to do whatever you want.
And the response is baffling.
People tell you things like “money can’t buy you happiness,” even though they have neither money nor happiness.
Or they tell you that it’s all a scam, and every system out there is designed purely to rip you off, and if you try, you’re going to end up bankrupt.
Or they that it won’t work, because “Port Headland is one of the biggest shipping ports in the country,” and that doesn’t even make sense, and you wonder what on earth people are talking about.
You begin to think that people don’t have reasons.
They have fears.
(I’m not wrong, am I?)
The ‘cult of job’ has inertia.
People have invested their whole lives in the belief that having a job makes you a productive and valuable member of society. They have given all their energy to it.
When you tell them you want to walk away from it all, it threatens everything.
And that’s why you get so much push-back on it.
But this is the secret they don’t want you to know. It is totally possible to not have a job. It is totally possible to not work 9 to 5 and to still live a meaningful and rich life, full of experience and service.
And how do I know it’s possible?
Because I’ve seen it done. A thousand times over. (Closer to ten-thousand actually.)
I’ve coached thousands of students on exactly this journey – from having a job to having a system of passive income.
From wage-slavery to financial freedom.
You’re not crazy for wanting it too.
It is possible.
DB.