Re: What do do with my life?
Re: What do do with my life?
- Subject: Re: What do do with my life?
- From: Greg Titus <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:13:48 -0700
On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 11:57 AM, Steven W. Schuldt wrote:
You really want some advice? Don't get a job. Have more respect
for yourself than that. Reduce your debt to as close to zero as you
can possibly get it (put every stick of flotsam in your life on eBay if
you have to) and build a business around what you love to do.
Everything you need to know about what a dead-end hell-hole a job is
can be studied in gruesome detail at www.fuckedcompany.com. Ask
yourself if you really want to be another sucker slinging code 16 hours
a day to make someone else rich while you and your family await the
pink slip at the end of the rainbow.
My advice was going to be _nearly_ the same as this.
Concentrate on doing what you love. If you love it, you are or will be
good at it, and if you are good at it, you are going to be in demand.
Whether or not you want to strike out on your own running your own
business is part of that. Are you willing to take risks? Is it worth it
to you or are you interested in running the accounting, keeping track of
taxes, and all the other fiddly necessities of running your own
business? That's a matter of what you like, and what your personality is
as well.
I am not a risk taker, and I prefer to do heads-down coding instead of
worrying about where my next consulting job is going to come from. So
even though I would almost surely make more money on my own as a
consultant, I found a really good place to work instead. (Omni.)
There _are_ companies where you can find steady work and good benefits
without being "another sucker slinging code 16 hours a day to make
someone else rich".
Wherever your particular interests lie, whatever your particular
personality -- go with that. Play to your personal strengths. Tech jobs
are still _relatively_ plentiful, as are opportunities for going out on
your own. Concentrate on molding your work situation to meet your
strengths instead of trying to mold yourself to meet the work market.
(And while I absolutely agree that you should reduce your debt to as
close to zero as possible, and you should try to direct your income
towards acquiring money making assets rather than liabilities like
bigger houses and new cars, I happened to think that "Rich Dad, Poor
Dad" wasn't a terribly useful book.)
Hope this helps,
--Greg
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