Money Myths That Stop You From Making Big Money: Myth 2

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Deborah Nelson | CATEGORIES: career, self improvement

I  MUST HAVE A JOB.

This is one incredible money-myth whopper.

How long has the job been in existence? A hundred years, perhaps? The job creates a false sense of security, but also that of indentured servitude.

For a job, we trade our biggest chunk of time each day for a “pot of porridge, credit card debt, and a home the bank owns.” We have traded our talents, youth, even our soul, for the promise of a steady paycheck. Yet, God, the creator, the source of life, has kept people alive for thousands of years without jobs. If you don’t believe in God, you can see that people have been kept alive by using resources provided by “the creation,” the “Mother Earth.” And “the job market” has not made anyone wealthy except for the people who in- vented it, perpetuate it, and wield the educational system to train peo- ple to work in it!

SOLUTION: Self-funded Self-employment. We have been so indoctrinated beginning in Kindergarten all the way through college that we must “make a living and get a good job.” We are taught this is the road to status, recognition, retirement, and security. We are granted grades, diplomas, awards, honors, and funding to keep us steadily on this path. These are external things, which have gradually mesmerized us to trade our soul (our purpose, our gifts, our talents, legal rights, and our true wealth) for a small weekly stipend. And what was originally a beautiful painting of security, perhaps initially a fair trade—a career that included health insurance, pension, longevity, and retirement, is no longer the real deal.

Today, even the thinly veiled promise of security, status, and retirement is now being re- claimed by its not-so-generous perpetrators. And even worse, increasingly extra “bailout taxes” are also being extorted from American tax payers (workers) in exchange for their continued, but quickly waning, “job security.”

Politics aside, this charade is a well orchestrated drama, cleverly playing on the American and world-stage daily as a distraction from the real theft being done to productive people—Democrat, Republican, American, or otherwise. Wake up people. We have been deceived and gradually become “addicted to jobs,” addicted to the “peanuts” exchanged for these jobs, and addicted to the lifestyle that supports these jobs, and then addicted to the credit cards that sup- port the lifestyle (that supports the jobs).
If you really ponder it, (but who has time to ponder, right?) those very peanuts are again extracted from us as credit card interest, mortgage interest, expensively financed soon-to-be-obsolete automobiles, and the lifestyle (deodorant and such things…) required to “qualify” for this regular stipend, actually a pittance in the terms of what is available in the real world of abundance.

It’s never too late to develop your gifts and talents and wean your- self away from the “corporate umbilical cord.” Click here to learn more about self-funded self-employment.

Deborah S Nelson is a guest blogger for PickTheBrain and the founder of Author Your Dreams Publishing

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  • http://www.cssrex.com/ CSSReX

    Correct! I agree with you completely :)

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  • http://www.2knowmyself.com Farouk

    so true, couldn’t be said better
    thanks for sharing the post and busting the myths :)

  • JBB

    “Click here to learn more about self-funded self-employment.”

    Have to wonder which link was the one they meant for that, since I don’t see anyplace there to click. :)

  • Pol

    You make some good points but I like my job. I don’t feel motivated to make big bucks. I don’t know why, I guess some people are like that! Sometimes a job can be a way of getting payment for what you like to do. I am a high school teacher and I guess having that job arrangement also buys continuity and security for my students which may not be there if I was freelance. I also see that keeping, for example doctors and firemen in jobs may be a good idea in society. I am sure there are more examples of a job being a good thing, but I appreciate it is not for everyone.

  • http://www.AuthoYourDreams.com Deborah

    God Bless you…

    You are one of those who truly love and who are truly passionate about your job!

    That is such a blessing! Yes we need all those jobs like firemen, and (maybe) doctors, nurce practicioners, EMT, teachers, gardeners. Hopefully people are in those jobs because it is in their area of talent and passion.

  • http://www.AuthoYourDreams.com Deborah

    Sorry about that missing link. If you want to find out mnore about Self-funded self-employment you can click http://www.UniversityofSelfemployment.com

  • D’Olivier

    This is a bonkers post. Entrepreneurialism should always be encouraged, but only a certain type of person can handle the stress and risks involved in it in order to reap the rewards, and some people just don’t want to do that. You are going about this the wrong way by criticising the job. Only in existence for 100 years?! There has always been a job function since time immemorial though a lot of the roles you wouldn’t be paid with money, but with time, and you may not be doing it voluntarily either. Everything you mention that’s linked to jobs : “a pot of porridge, credit card debt, and a home the bank owns”…that’s not linked to jobs, that’s linked to human behaviour. And even if you own your own business, you will at some point rely on people that you hire to help you run the business or you rely on other companies and people providing you services…and those businesses and people will have to employ people in jobs for them to execute what they have to do so that they can provide those services to you.

    I’m not reading the rest of your series…the quality of the ideas in this article is shockingly bad.

  • http://www.AuthoYourDreams.com Deborah

    Thanks for your comment. Yes you make a good point about certain choices being linked to human behavior, rather that “the job,” and that some people do not want to take risks! Of course. Just a previous person said they loved their job as a teacher; and that is a very noble profession as well.

    Eveyone is different, and as long a they are happy and functioning in their area of talent, whether its in the form of the job, or otherwise, I would support and encourage that.

    So those things that you pointed out, I do agree with you, but I thought obvious, and didn’t feel it necessary to address because the article is about trying to shake people out of their normal point of view, and to exlore different ways think about money rather than from a self limiting mind set. For those who Jobs are not self limiting, these comments to not apply, of course.

    So there is another point that I am trying to express beyond people who are happy in their jobs and beyond the “jobs” that serve certain purposes. Still these tasks can be accomplished in different, more creative formats. Thank you for your point of view and taking the time to make a comment! Much appreciated.

    Thank you so much for your point of view!

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  • KR3

    Thank you for this post. I hate who think there is nothing without a Job. Financial security definetly does not come with a job as they can fire you anytime they feel like it.

    The simplest way of putting it is anyone who has made it big never did it through getting a job. Name me one person who made it big by following the job route. It just doesn’t work that way.

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  • http://www.life.yinteing.com Yin Teing

    I agree with you Deborah. My entire family believed in having a real job is important for security. So much so when I wanted to escape the mindset, I am faced with lots of challenges. It’s true- my current boss is one living example- he did not work on a ‘regular job’- instead, today he is well off through passive income. People have to realise that if they cling on a false sense of security by having regular jobs, they will have to settle with little. Instead, putting their talents to use and treading going to an uncertain path- can put them to a path that is beyond their dreams. The worst that can happen is they fail- but if they never try, they will never know. It’s not real living if you keep silencing the voice in your heart.

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  • http://www.cashapillar.com/ cashapillar

    Great article again Deborah!

    Indeed self-employment isn’t for everyone. I don’t want to put random numbers here but it’s clear that the majority of people prefer to have a boss than actually being his own boss and that’s why we’re all surrounded by monopolies.

    Internet is actually not only for watching youtube or social networking… It’s actually the best opportunity we’ve got to get rid of those boring 9 – 5 desk jobs. But very low number of people use internet that way so monopolies just continue to rake-in the cash online too while we work at their companies desk.

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  • Somebody

    true.

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  • GregMiliatis

    Becoming self-employed was hands-down the BEST career decision I’ve ever made. I have more flexibility, more financial security, and have QUADRUPLED my former day-job salary. There’s no way I’ll ever go back to a “real” job.