“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” – Karl Marx
Working at home is really a daunting task but it also requires a lot of discipline and dedication.
I have a friend that has been working as a freelance for almost 10 years and he’s doing fine and I think he’s earning more than what other people are earning in a company.
Other than that he has more time with his kid and wife. I think, that is more than enough reason to consider being self employed.
I also think that our education has pressured us from not venturing into getting into self-employment.
It took me my entire employee life to realize how much potential a person has in terms of looking for his/her mark in this world and earning his/her money.
Don’t get me wrong, working for a company is good, it gives you the experience of working with a team and handling pressure and getting bonuses other than the stability it presents after retiring.
I have heard of stories about people retiring at an early age and just going outside of the country buying things and meeting different people.
But thinking more about it makes you wonder what if you choose to take the other path?
Not because you chose to but because you are meant to.
What if everything we learned from school is wrong?
Like perchance following superiors and bargaining for the chance that perhaps they would listen to our pleas no matter how logical they are?
I’m not saying that our educational system is wrong but what I’m saying is I’m dead tired of an educational system that doesn’t recognize the capacity for human beings to excel as a business entity. That we need not be employees forever instead be a never-ending fount of high class business partners and not just pencil pushers waiting for their retirement pay.
There’s a big difference when you are an employee and you’re a business partner.
An employee is forced to follow orders from the management, while a business partner is not constrained to follow the rules created by his client instead he creates an environment that offers quality output at a certain price using his own terms that may seem acceptable to his client.
This is what I find ideal.
I think that in most companies the task of having a management to oversee employees may present a lot of problems and deterrents for a healthy working environment.
The opportunity to use power and influence in this kind of environment is always a welcome everyday experience to most that may lead to more attrition and conflict, not to mention certain injustices and unfair labor practices committed.
The logic is simple you are tapped by a company because they need the skill set that you could offer them, without you they will be found irrelevant in the business arena.
Therefore your contribution as a worker is found to be more relevant than what they can give as a means of payment because you will not only supply the proper produce, instead you will be giving much of your time for the development of the company notwithstanding the profit they will be making outside of your salary.
So I believe that the notion that a person should work for the company should be reconsidered and instead be termed as the company working hand in hand with the employee as a partner to be able to grow as a business entity.
I pray that someday we can all realize that we are not all mere employees, instead a pool of specialists that the business sector is dying to get hold of.
I only wish our Universities understand this instead of creating blind followers and employees.
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bullseye dude! your concerns are not unlike mine. I guess that’s one of the downsides of being viewed as cheap labor. Companies here just don’t see their employees as a vital part of their organization’s success. Yes they think we’re important, but it only goes as far as the next click to jobstreet.com/newapplicants.
What sucks more is that our current educational system is anchored with people who carry the same perception. How many times have we heard our professors imply that our future careers hang on our ability to adapt, compete, and blend in the corporate world? It’s never about businesses needing the creative genius of the current generation, it’s always about the fresh graduates needing the businesses to earn and survive. Never about companies giving employees flexibility to encourage them to think outside the box, always about employees staying in their boxed cubicle boarded with company rules and procedures.
Not ready to tread the path towards self-employment though, too bad for me. I’m still optimistic that as an individual, I can still create a few ripples here and there, ripples that might find its way to a new wave.
Thanks for the comment bro. I hope you’ll find that right path for you. As for me I think I’ll create another path and have this generation thread on it, no matter how small that is. ^_^