I think there is certainly a choice we each make between staying as en
employee in someone else's organization and jumping ship and being an
entrepreneur self-employed in your own company.
I met someone last night who stopped working because he did not like the
company's direction and was told to either start working again, resign or
get fired. At that moment, he said to his boss- I am not starting work
again or resigning, so he was fired. He is now considerably more
successful and wealthy than he was as an employee- but it would have been
so easy at that moment just to compromise and strat work again. But he did
not believe in that- he believed in something else- and went after it.
We all face a choice between fat slavery and lean liberty. But the
interesting thing is that fat slavery- employment in large companies with
the benefits and security it entails- is becoming lean slavery- because we
are rarely maximizing our full personal potential as a cog in someone
else's wheel.
And simultaneously, fat liberty is becoming ever more possible- that is to
say, you can have the freedom and balance of being your own boss- and earn
a lot too. Shifting down can allow you to gear up!
Basically, organizations are flawed and there are some fundamental forces
helping entrepreneurs to succeed.
I know so many geniuses who are compromising themselves daily- they take
solace in the fact that they have their hobbies and can implement small,
interesting projects within their jobs as employees. They could be so much
more- I advocate taking a risk and pursuing your dreams- because you are a
long time alive- and a long time dead. We must go from being rankers in
hire-archies to self-employed branders.
So, Yes!, drop out to earn big bucks!
regards, sincerely simon buckingham unorganization: business not busyness!
http://www.unorg.com/indiv.htm
--"Simon Buckingham" <go57@dial.pipex.com>
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