Rich Dad Lessons: Why I don’t want to be an employee anymore
Based on Kiyosaki’s work
I am 31 years old and I work from home as web developer and SEO for a company in other country. I really like this kind of work because I love work from the comfort of my house.
Although I don’t need to go to an office, I am an employee yet, because I work for other people and they pay for my time mainly. I have to be available in a daily schedule by Yahoo Messenger for conference or questions about my work and I receive a salary like every employee.
Three months ago, my boss wanted to open an office in my country and he wants all the programmers work from there. All the bad memories in the old days when I worked in several offices came to my mind: waking up very early in the morning, having breakfast really quickly, going out for driving or taking a bus / taxi and fighting with the egos of the co-workers although many co-workers were really nice and easygoing. Besides that, in that time, I was buying expensive clothes, paying for lunch in restaurants and wasting money and time (2 hours daily!) in a car or bus for transportation.
I could not believe this. That would be a setback for me. So, that decision made me feel as if I would need to take the following step: become a business owner.
I told my thoughts to my boss and we reach an agreement. In the next days I will start to work with the company as an adviser in SEO and web-development (from my home) but I will be my own boss. However, my objective is be a business owner, not a self-employed. I have a business plan and I will work in that, gradually. And yes, I will have an office but it will be my own office for my business.
But, believe me, the new office of the company was not the primary reason for my decision. I am decided to be a business owner because I need to be in the right side of the cashflow quadrant. I need to control my destiny. My whole destiny must not be in the hands of a third party : my boss or my company or my government. It is very risky!
Just look around, a lot of poor and mid-class people continue running in the rat race, by working and working really hard in order to put food in the table, pay bills and save some money for the University of the kids. And we are not mentioning when they are fired and their lives are destroyed by an insensible company or boss. Even if they can conserve the job, a lot of employees hate their jobs and hate their boss but they fear to lose the position due to the money necessity. Also, when they receive the salary, they can see how it is reduced by the taxes (social security, government, 401(k) plan for retirement) and nowadays nobody can guarantee 100% the money of pension and medical security will be there when they age (politicians and leaders are very worried about the social security for a lot of old people coming of the baby-boomer generation in the next years and the retirement funds are fluctuating with the financial market in most cases).
I think the life is for living, not for working. Although I can need to work to live in this moment, I should not live to work. Believe me, I am not a lazy person. I work 8 hours a day in my job and after that I work 4 hours in the nights in my own stuffs, then this is not about laziness. This is about the future and the destiny.
I have decided to leave the rat race. I know many failures are waiting for me…. but I know the success is hidden between the failures. I don’t want to be an employee anymore in my life. I hope God provide me with courage and wisdom. Also, I know that if I continue in my job by being an employee, I never will become rich but probably my boss will become.
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