So, I met a lady who has been fired from a company that she worked for for over 30 years.
30 YEARS!!!!
Things were great until the company started having financial problems. They changed management, and all of a sudden all of the people who were close to retirement couldn’t do ANYTHING right. Yep. Everybody who was close to getting that wonderful company retirement package. Some of these people had been at the same company for over 50+ years.
FIRED!
Yep. You mean to tell me that all of a sudden, these 30, 40, and 50 year-old company veterans didn’t know how to perform their company roles? One by one, the new management picked them apart and one by one these men and women who had been loyal to this company for 15, 20, 30, 40, and even 50 years were “let go”, “fired”, “released” due to “lack of performance” or some “company infraction” they’d all committed. Really?
And you look at ME crazy when I tell you that I DO NOT and WILL NOT commit myself to working for another person 40 hours per week for 40 years of my life to hopefully retire on 40% of the little bit of money the company told me I was worthy enough to earn.
And you look at me like I am a spawn of satan when I ask for money for services I provide or knowledge that you request from me, because HOW DARE I decide that I am going to make my money through a non-traditional method that requires that I SET MY OWN PRICE and DETERMINE MY OWN WORTH.
These people ask you to stay late and work on unfinished projects – FOR THE TEAM.
They ask you to come in early and leave late – FOR THE TEAM.
They ask you to do all of this FOR THE TEAM, but where is the TEAM when the company decides that you are no longer worth what they are paying you.
Understand this:
Companies are in business to MAKE A PROFIT.
Not for you.
Not to help you provide a better life for your family.
Not to help you achieve your goals, dreams and desires.
Companies exist to MAKE MONEY.
And you are only as good to them as the last dollar you made them.
Say what you will about, job security, 401-k (which you can’t touch for 40 years without being penalized, and even when you do access it, you have no idea what the market value of those dollars will be 40 years from now), or insurance benefits,
I would rather make $10.00 working for myself on MY OWN TERMS, than make $1000.00 with someone else stepping on my head.
Yeah I said it.
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