My Dead Beat Job
I can remember one time sitting down with my best friend, who had worked for a few years at a well-known restaurant and told her "I hate my job." I really hate my dead beat job. She responded in her usual way and told me "Welcome to the real world...we all hate our freakin jobs." That was about 5 months before her 25th birthday.
My best friend has great artistic skills. I often wonder why she didn't go that route. Would we be happy if we were doing something we loved? I would sit and think about all the hours commuting to work and making sure I was clocking in on time. She would call me and make sure I was clocked in on time.
When I told her I hated my job, I was serious. Can anyone relate to waking up in the morning and just feeling like throwing up in their mouth about going to work? You are in a bad mood, you go off on everyone, you can't bring yourself to roll out of the bed and all you can think about when you are at work is when is it time to clock out?
You become a clock watcher all day. You even try to get up and walk around only to see other people with the same sad look you have. It is a f'ed up day!
Still we get up and do it over and over again. I know I did anyway. I thought I would stay at my past job forever as they like to say "When you are here this will be the last job on your resume." I thought that was my reason for living. I can't leave my job, how will I pay all my bills?
Then a friend of mine I had not spoken to in sometime called me up to say he was starting his own business. I was shocked - this guy has a job I would love to get - a comfy corporate spot that brought him well over 6 figures year end and year out. It inspired me - I had nothing going but this dead beat job so I decided to follow him into the battlefield of entrepreneurship. A few years later, MANY failures under our belt and many lessons learned, I am now on track to make more money than on my JOB, and the dread of work...is gone.
If I had to give people one piece of advice about leaving their job - I would wrap it up with two letters: P.P.
1. Purpose - If you want to get up out of your job - prep! Now don't burn your bridges. Don't leave at lunch and not come back, give your notice in a timely manner and try to stay cool with your co-workers. They just might be your customers in the future.
2. Passion - Discover what your true passion is. What do you really love to do? This seems really easy, but a lot of times people have trouble admitting what it is they really love doing.
Obviously that is not a full system to escape the rat race and leave your job. There is a lot more to think about before you up and leave your job. This is me and my personal take on some of the basics of it.
For more information and great videos check out the link below and see what I mean!
My best friend has great artistic skills. I often wonder why she didn't go that route. Would we be happy if we were doing something we loved? I would sit and think about all the hours commuting to work and making sure I was clocking in on time. She would call me and make sure I was clocked in on time.
When I told her I hated my job, I was serious. Can anyone relate to waking up in the morning and just feeling like throwing up in their mouth about going to work? You are in a bad mood, you go off on everyone, you can't bring yourself to roll out of the bed and all you can think about when you are at work is when is it time to clock out?
You become a clock watcher all day. You even try to get up and walk around only to see other people with the same sad look you have. It is a f'ed up day!
Still we get up and do it over and over again. I know I did anyway. I thought I would stay at my past job forever as they like to say "When you are here this will be the last job on your resume." I thought that was my reason for living. I can't leave my job, how will I pay all my bills?
Then a friend of mine I had not spoken to in sometime called me up to say he was starting his own business. I was shocked - this guy has a job I would love to get - a comfy corporate spot that brought him well over 6 figures year end and year out. It inspired me - I had nothing going but this dead beat job so I decided to follow him into the battlefield of entrepreneurship. A few years later, MANY failures under our belt and many lessons learned, I am now on track to make more money than on my JOB, and the dread of work...is gone.
If I had to give people one piece of advice about leaving their job - I would wrap it up with two letters: P.P.
1. Purpose - If you want to get up out of your job - prep! Now don't burn your bridges. Don't leave at lunch and not come back, give your notice in a timely manner and try to stay cool with your co-workers. They just might be your customers in the future.
2. Passion - Discover what your true passion is. What do you really love to do? This seems really easy, but a lot of times people have trouble admitting what it is they really love doing.
Obviously that is not a full system to escape the rat race and leave your job. There is a lot more to think about before you up and leave your job. This is me and my personal take on some of the basics of it.
For more information and great videos check out the link below and see what I mean!
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