10 REASONS WHY JOBS SUCK

These are my personal reasons why I'm not fit to slave for other people. I'm writing this to make you ask yourself some questions about your situation that you probably pushed back into your subconscious mind to help you cope with the nonsense. What I'm writing might be negative but hopefully you will use it to inspire you to do something positive by taking action so you can avoid these things that get under our skin.

1. Drug Screening-Why do I have to piss in a cup just to get a mundane job lifting boxes making $7 an hour? Does Jay-Z have to piss in a cop to perform his latest hit record live on stage and make $100,000?
2. Credit Check- If somehow has bad credit and can't get a job then how is there credit supposed to get better? This is the biggest catch 22 I ever heard of in my life besides the "We can't hire you because you don't have enough experience" rhetoric. How can someone have experience if they just got out of college and can't get a job to gain the experience?
3. Money- Trading your time for money is the worst way to make cash. I'm not cool with putting myself in a position where I will never get rich.I wrote a whole article on this. Click here
   
4. Time- Who says that you should only have a week or 2 weeks for vacation time every year? What if I want to spend months at a time in Italy or Brazil exploring the world? What law, religion, or group of people decided on the arbitrary number of 2 weeks? Where did that come from? Let's not forget to mention lunch breaks. Why 30 minutes or an hour? If you take control of your life you can do as you please. You can toss out the employee handbook and tell the company to stick it where the son don't shine. Do you spend more time at work dealing with people who you have no desire to be around then your own family? I used to not see my family and friends for weeks at a time but would see my co-workers and supervisor EVERYDAY!
5. Sleep- Ever have trouble sleeping at night because of anxiety about your job? Have you ever despised your job so much that you suffered from sleep deprivation? The funny thing is that it probably effects your performance at work because of lack of sleep. Now that you can't concentrate on your job it makes it harder to work which makes your job suck even more which keeps you up late at night. This is the viscous cycle that I used to have to experience for years.
6. Fish out of water- If you are anything like me then you don't fit in at a job. I have always been a person who thinks outside the box and never liked being just like everyone else. It makes me feel unique. I have no connection what so ever to the people next to me sitting in their cubicles. My co-workers used to bitch all day about Microsoft Vista, what type of clothes someone is wearing, or how their bonuses are smaller this year compared to last year. Who cares what type of clothes Mike has on today! LOL. These same people also love to strike fear in your heart when you mention that you might try to invest in stocks or start your own business venture. All they do is focus on problems and if you discuss solutions they will run away from you like you have a bad case of the swine flu. On top of all that I am a minority. I know we don't go to work everyday to make friends but I'm not a robot either. At some point in the 8 hour shift I need someone to communicate with or crack a few jokes with. 8 hours can seem like an eternity when you have no one to relate to. I been in positions where I would put out an APB on anyone who was black so I could have a friend to talk to at the company.LOL. It didn't even matter if we would have hated each other or never even hold a convo under different circumstances.
7. Retirement- It appears that all the social security money will be gone when I'm in my sixties. What the hell do I look like flipping burgers at the age of 67 after I bust my tail all those years? The younger generation needs to be informed on what's going on nowadays. What worked in 1976 probably won't work in 2040.
8. Knowledge- People who work at the same place for 50 years have limited knowledge. All these guys no is how to cash a check and spend their money. They know nothing about financial freedom, compound interest, passive income, residual income, income statements etc. Their knowledge seems to be very one dimensional.
9. Taxes- Jobs take all of your income just with taxes alone. Let's not forget your union fees and health care too. I wrote more in dept about this at Click Here
   
10. Dreams- Have you spent the last 15 years working at your job that you hate and put your dreams on the back burner? We all got to die someday and I don't want to think about my regrets on my deathbed. If you can dedicate your life to making someone else rich then you can dedicate a couple hours a day on your dreams and goals.
    

It's Not What You Know But Who You Know

Nepotism is the showing of favoritism for relatives or friends based upon that relationship, rather than on an objective evaluation of ability or suitability. For instance, offering employment to a relative, despite the fact that there are others who are better qualified and willing to perform the job. The word nepotism is from the Latin word nepos (meaning "nephew" or "grandchild").

What about my grades?
This is one of the reasons why getting a college education is not very effective when it comes to supporting yourself. What good did getting an A+ on your physics test do for you last year when the job you just applied for was given to the bosses nephew? College never once told us the truth about "It's not what you know but who you know". They might have mentioned you have to network but they didn't fully explain the schematics of it. College gives you this false sense that if you get good grades then you will excel in the real world. In my opinion you have to have book smarts and street smarts in this world. This is why a lot of extremely intelligent people sit around wondering why they aren't moving ahead in life or getting the women they want. You have to have street smarts as well as book smarts. School only teaches one of those and it ain't street smarts. LoL. The author of Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki talks about how in the real world people are more concerned about your financial report card. If you wanted to purchase some Real Estate and needed capital from the bank, they will need to know your debt to income ratio, financial statements and credit scores. They are not going to ask for your report card from the 8th grade or college transcripts!



My experience
I personally have had jobs where my boss or co-workers had close relatives working at the job. Some of my co workers were younger then me and made more money and didn't even have a bachelors degree like I do. WTF. What happened to all those test, quizzes, and term papers I took in college? It did me no good in the real world. I also have been given jobs in the past because I knew the person working at the place of employment. It wasn't because I was the best candidate. Some people look at it as racism but if you are white or black and have power, then most likely you will hire your relative or friend who is the same race right? If corporate America is predominantly white then wouldn't I be an idiot to try to climb their corporate ladder as an African American? Even if I was white I wouldn't want to climb that ladder because if you don't have friends in high places then it doesn't matter who you are.This is what I mean when people should create their own way. Stop relying on someone else's structure and start your own. You will never make more money then the CEO of the company you work for!