It's Your Life
Why Give It Away For Peanuts?
So you finally got up the nerve to walk into the boss’s office and ask for a raise good for you now you can finally get the new car you have needed. Wait what are you doing walking back out of the office dejected? He said no. Well I guess that’s it no raise, no more money, you will just have to tighten the belt a little bit more and make do with what you are already receiving. This seems to be the attitude of the average person today. Why? Because we have been conditioned that the boss has all the power and we have no choice but to accept it just like a little mouse in an experiment is conditioned to press a bar repeatedly to receive food.
Well I learned a long time ago that if I didn’t like the current situation I was in I have other options. These options do require that I look outside of my usual comfort zone and try new things. As I said in a previous article I’m not a writer but I learned to write, I also knew that there was more to life than tucking my tail between my legs and just accepting whatever crumbs the boss was willing to throw my way.
Now again I repeat I am not suggesting you run out and quit your job, after all you will look pretty stupid for doing that when you are starving and being thrown out of your house. What I am suggesting is that you continue to develop an alternative way of giving yourself that raise, a way that the boss has no control over. And as many have found you may eventually find yourself in a position, where you can no longer afford to give the boss your time, as it is more profitable to you doing the other things you do.
THEN AND ONLY THEN should you consider the option of leaving your current employment and pursuing your freedom. Then you will be in position to be financially free and the decision to leave will be a positive move and not something that is going to come back to haunt you down the road. Again, to make a move that is hasty is sure to spell disaster but a well thought out plan, executed over time, building a stable source of income will pay rewards that will continue to be beneficial to you for a long time to come.
I know it is hard to be patient when you are struggling to make it from one paycheck to the next but if you will put you trust in you and decide to stick with it you will get to a point where things will get better where you are not strapped from paycheck to paycheck where you can afford the new car, boat, TV _____(fill in the blank with what you have been desiring) and life will again begin to be a happy place because you know you control what happens down the road not someone else. After all, it is your life, why should you have to give it away to anyone else for peanuts?