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10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job
By tehconi | July 30, 2007
I really like this post by Steve Pavlina.
Steve’s article crystallizes what I felt and saw as an employee in my last job.
Holding a job is like being a caged animal. Living a life of an employee is like living a life of a circus animal. At 9am you drag yourself to work (cage), perform for the rest of the day at the command of your boss (master) till 5pm when you are released from the cage. I don’t mean to sound derogatory, just using an analogy here, which you will probably appreciate if you care to look closely.
In the week leading up to an upcoming holiday, the HR department wrote a notice like this :-
“On the eve of Christmas Day, all employees will be released from work at 12pm. We wish everyone a very merry Christmas.”
Yeah, indeed they had to release us… It sounded really funny, and I remember joking about it to my colleagues.
Then there’s the atmosphere of fear and insecurity in the workplace. In conventional “wisdom”, people think and feel that they have the greatest security when they hold a day job, preferably in an MNC. However, do you sense the fear and insecurity in these people ?
Why do people engage in work politics and make their number one priority that of protecting their own asses in every work encounter ? Because at the back of their mind, they are always afraid of losing their job, losing their next promotion opportunity, or losing favour with their bosses. So instead of focusing on the client and on contributing value, they put their self interests first. Employees in fact live in fear, not security.
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