Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Get rich by distinguishing between "job" and "work"

A job is evil whereas work is noble (and super-profitable).

Here's what I mean: a job is an invention from capitalists (business owners) so they can secure the fruits of your labor without you EVER owning those fruits.

Work, on the other hand, is the activity whereby you create value. In our free market, capitalist society, you are free to sell that value to anyone you want, or you can also choose NOT to sell that value.

Work has no limitations, no bottlenecks, no "speed limits": you can work as fast as you can, to create as much value as you can, so you can EARN as much as you can.

A job, however, has mental, temporal and spatial limits:

- An employee is not allowed to use his mind in a way that trespasses his pay grade (or his job description)

- An employee is not allowed to work before 9 AM or after 5 PM (of course, you CAN work outside of official office hours, but they won't pay you for it)

- An employee is not allowed to bring work home; he/she must work while at the office or manufacturing plant

If you choose a line of work that you love and are naturally driven to become the best at it, there is NO LIMIT to how much value you can create for others and, therefore, to how much money you can make.

Let me repeat that:

If you choose a line of work that you love and are naturally driven to become the best at it, there is NO LIMIT to how much value you can create for others and, therefore, to how much money you can make.

That, my friends, is the true secret leading to great wealth. It's a secret that your parents probably did not share with you, for the simple reason that they themselves don't know the secret.

It's a secret your friends -- even your closest friends -- did not share with you, for the same reason. Your friends, like most people, have been brainwashed by the educational, media and corporate employment systems to believe that being an obedient, conforming and unthinking employee is the only viable economic option.

Like most people, I've been brainwashed too. Not only are we all brainwashed, but they also use a cheap detergent!

My point is that you can free yourself from the system by learning and mastering the differences between a "job" and "work."

People who understand the differences and exude their understanding in their everyday thinking process and working methodology, will increasingly achieve control of their economic lives. They will, in time, learn to master their vast mental powers so as to create value and capital that THEY own (not employers or business owners).

They will ultimately achieve the Ayn Randian ideal of becoming economically sovereign individuals who take orders from no one and who are masters of their fate.