Yesterday I ran a poll which showed that 38% of people work as employees. I thought the figure would be higher, but turns out my channel leans more towards freelancers.
Right now, the idea that working for a boss is bad and that you must start your own business and leave employment is heavily pushed. A person starts feeling uneasy, thinking «I should be working for myself; working for a boss is bad.» Whole movements are being created. «Be a man, pull yourself together!»
I believe there is absolutely nothing wrong with working for someone else, and a person should choose what they like, not what has been imposed on them as good or bad. You need to rationally weigh the pros and cons and decide for yourself.
If your own business generates more money than what you get at a job, then you can think about quitting. Those are solid numbers. And even then, you need to think carefully.
But if, say, a guy makes $300 freelancing and $700 at his job, why should a moment suddenly come when freelancing brings in $1,000?
What could possibly happen that would increase the income by more than 3 times?
Here is an example. A woman (her channel is @unterzero) was a top executive at an industrial company, making 5–6k euros, with everything accessible—flights, business trips, the full package.
She felt an internal crisis and quit for nowhere, and now her income is tiny alongside a pile of debt. Asset liquidation proceedings due to bankruptcy are currently underway.
Tell me honestly, was it worth stepping into the void without a backup income source? But hey, she’s not working for a boss anymore! Pretty cool, right? Freedom.
I am not judging anyone, just giving an example.
And there are a million stories like this. An idea gets forced onto a person—let’s call it a mind virus—and they rush to follow it like crazy, no matter what.
Another personal story—you’ll probably laugh.
When I was 18, I took a PICKUP course by Alex Leslie. If you remember the recent story about the Thai prison and Nastya Rybka, that’s him.
We were assigned all sorts of tasks—do this or that, approach a girl and say certain things. To my 18-year-old self, it felt cool, like «this guy knows his stuff, he’s an authority.» It took me exactly 2 days of training to realize that pickup training like that is total madness.
After the emotional hype faded, nothing was left. All the fluff vanished after a week, and I was back to who I was before. Yet before that, I genuinely believed I was growing and that it would give me something.
It seems to me that the idea of not working for a boss is from that same playbook—when someone is pumped full of emotion and makes a decision without weighing options or thinking logically.
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