Job loss

The economy is dooown, down to Chinatown. Hundred thousands of people losing their jobs all over the world like there’s no tomorrow. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine just lost his and thing is, the majority of people think it’s a horrible thing, that the world as they know is destroyed blabla.

Well, I have a very different philosophy about it. You see, the concept of having a job has been dictated since we were kids. Who never heard his/her parents going “you need to get diplomas if you want to get a good job in a good company”. Let me tell you something : having diplomas means almost nothing. I know people who had no work experience and no diplomas and still managed to worm themselves into a decent position just because they begged friends who were already in a company. The alternative is also to bullshit your skills and trick people so that they hire you (most of the time, these two profiles are actually the same person).

Back to the job loss thing. With the economic crisis, many people lost their jobs and all of the sudden, they realized that they actually had a wife, kids… i.e. a life. They don’t talk about unemployment but more like FUNemployment. They’ve been working so hard that they literally forgot that life is not just about working for an evil boss who will slave you to death. And THAT brings me to the next point : if you think about it, having a job is the worst way to get money. Steve Pavlina had a pretty interesting article called “10 reasons why you should never get a job” about it and here’s the jist of it :

1. you get paid from 9 until 18… that’s it. You’re basically getting paid by the hour. Did you know that some people are getting paid while they sleep? How dumb do you feel now in that ugly office?

2.  you get limited experience… that’s right, you think you’re learning something but after a few months, you’ve learn all you need to know and for the rest of your life, you’ll be doomed to copy/paste text or crunch numbers in an ugly office (you know by now that I hate offices, not the TV show, that’s awesome…)

3. you get to become a pet. Think about it… you’re your boss’s pet. You’re becoming trained to execute orders no matter what.

4. you pay way too much taxes. Not only you pay a LOT of tax that will be wasted by those in the government, but you CANNOT choose what to deduct or pay.

5. having a job is risk free? Think again. This economic crisis is the perfect example of how having a job is everything but risk free. Go ask jobless people what they think about it.

6. if you’re unlucky, you may easily get an evil boss because yes, you CANNOT chose your boss, HE chooses you. That’s like lottery. Oh and let’s not forget that you spend more time with your co-workers and boss than your family. What a life!

7. you think you’re underpaid? For sure. So what do you do? You crawl to your boss office and BEG for a promotion. How pathetic? May as well be a beggar on the street.

8. smart asses will tell you that “sure the job is terrible but at least they have a social life”. Well, in an office, most talk are work related and let’s not forget point 6 i.e. you do not choose who you will be working with.

9. you lose your freedom. What is the first thing they hand to you when you start on your first day of work? A huge book of company policy and rules. “Don’t do this, don’t say that”… That’s correct, this is the beginning of your domestication like a good pet.

10. your balls shrink. Having a job turns you into a wimp. Have you noticed that the biggest whiner you met in your life are people working with you? They complain, complain and complain, and what do they do? right… nothing. All they do is eagerly wait for their next little vacation which they have to carefully plan because one gets only so little free time off.

So you see? losing your job is not so bad after all. Of course, the above doesn’t apply to everyone. Some people are born spineless and must be told what to do or get friends to find jobs for them, that’s the way it is. But for the rest, we all have something valuable that can be charged to others. Could be piano lessons, writing a book, being active in the stock market or starting a blog. There are tons of ways of making money beside having a 9 to 18 job in an ugly office.

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