10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
July 21st, 2006 by Steve Pavlina
Email this article to a friend Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”
She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”
Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”
It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.
Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:
1. Income for dummies.
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?
Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?
Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.
This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.
Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.
Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.
2. Limited experience.
You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.
The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?
Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?
3. Lifelong domestication.
Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.
Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?
How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?
Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?
Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…
4. Too many mouths to feed.
Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.
Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?
You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.
What a generous person you are!
5. Way too risky.
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.
Morons.
Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.
Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (“You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
6. Having an evil bovine master.
When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”
Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.
Who’s your daddy?
7. Begging for money.
When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?
Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?
If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”
8. An inbred social life.
Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.
If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!
9. Loss of freedom.
It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.
As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.
God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!
Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
10. Becoming a coward.
Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.
When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.
I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!
Still want a job?
If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.
If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.
Happily jobless
What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.
And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
Here are some free resources to help you get started:
- The Courage To Live Consciously (article on how to transition to more meaningful work)
- Podcast #006 – How to Make Money Without a Job (audio)
- Podcast #009 – Kick-start Your Own Business (audio)
- Podcast #014 – Embracing Your Passion (audio)
- 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed (article)
- How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) (article)
- How to Make Money From Your Blog (article)
One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.
All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.
The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.
You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.
Final thoughts
While I wouldn’t recommend starting an online business for everyone, for many people it’s one of the best ways to generate income without a job. It has certainly worked disgustingly well for me. If you’re interested in learning more about this option, please check out Build Your Own Successful Online Business for details.
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[...] I recognize that not everyone wants to start three Fortune 1000 companies or build a business into a $1 billion behemoth. Heck, I know that not all of you necessarily want to own your own business, although I highly recommend it (and so does Steve Pavlina). What’s important to take away from these examples is the idea that balance might not always be what you want if you’re truly intent on pursuing your goals. [...]
August 31st, 2006 at 3:54 pm
[...] 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job » [StevePavlina.com] Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
September 1st, 2006 at 2:35 pm
[...] Steve Pavlina wrote an interesting post called “10 Reasons why You Should Never Get a Job.” One of the things he says is that we have all been brainwashed into thinking that working for an employer is the most secure way to get income when in fact it is the least secure. Think about it; at any given day, your boss can fire you and just like that, you life is ruined, unless you can quickly find another source of income or another job. [...]
September 4th, 2006 at 5:23 am
[...] This article stuck out in particular, though, possibly due to my own dissatisfaction with my current employment situation. The title says it all: “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job.” Although there’s quite a bit of sarcasm here and the tone is at times fairly harsh, the point is interesting. [...]
September 4th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
[...] I can’t give you any motivational words that haven’t already been said elsewhere to convince you to go out and do your own thing. It’s not for everyone. It’s definitely not glamorous and not some kind of fairytale that’s guaranteed to work out just cause you took the risk. It has dangers and instability and pays less at first than you could make working for a larger company. Plus, the world of business needs employees or else we’d all be crazy captains with nobody to staff the ship. So believe me, I’m not slangin’ the entrepreneur/small biz owner religion. But I can say if you feel like your job is rotting your brain, it is. Don’t even question that it isn’t – if you have that thought at all, it is. Steve Pavlina recently wrote a great post on the ten reasons why you should never get a job. I won’t recommend joblessness for every new college grad as there is value to experiencing the idiocy of a big corporation first-hand. But if you debating taking the leap of starting your own thing, whatever health benefits, fear of failure or upcoming promotions are keeping you in your indentured servitude- fuck it. Say it with me, “FUCK. IT.” I can think of nothing more depressing than living with the regret of having never tried something you wish you would have done in life. And when you tell yourself “I’ll make the jump next year once I’ve stashed more savings away…” trust me, there’s always another promotion dangling out there making the exit more and more difficult with time. I realize I’m a biased proponent of this path and lucky that I had the capital reserves and supportive friends and family to be able to do it. Gambling five years of home equity on an experimental idea would be considered foolish by most people’s standards, but ask the advice of anyone over the age of seventy and he/she will tell you “Life is short. No regrets. Go for it while you have the chance.” [...]
September 5th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
[...] Les hva Steve Pavlina sier om å ikke være fast ansatt. Det er nok mange som vet at de burde sagt opp, men er rett og slett litt for feige til å ta skrittet fullt ut. Med mindre man får mye mer enn man selv synes man fortjener i lønn, så bør man vel strengt talt finne på noe annet å bruke tiden sin på, så snart det ikke er noe mer å hente sosialt eller erfaringsmessig i den stillingen man er i. [...]
September 5th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
[...] I’m not the biggest Steve Pavlina fan — far from it — but his article 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job is an awesome read, and really changed the way I think about work. Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies. [...]
September 9th, 2006 at 10:58 am
[...] Steve Pavilina: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job [...]
September 17th, 2006 at 8:39 am
[...] This is why I gladly bring you this link: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job [...]
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:03 am
[...] Many, like Steve Pavlina, dislike just about everything about the corporate world, and want to make their own jobs by having their own business. There’s nothing wrong with that model, but as BusinessPundit points out, the reality is often that a job provides much greater income and career growth than your own business can. However, if you’re really determined, it can be done. [...]
September 29th, 2006 at 3:57 am
[...] Het begint met het ontslag Als de zaken van je eigen bedrijf steeds iets beter gaan of je wilt er juist meer tijd insteken omdat het nog niet goed genoeg gaat dan komt er een breekpunt. Het punt waarop je moet zeggen “Het valt niet meer te combineren!”. Deze beslissing neem je natuurlijk niet zomaar, want je hele omgeving zegt ondernemen is vol risico’s en werken voor een baas geeft veel meer zekerheden. Terwijl anderen, zoals Steve Pavlina zeggen 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. [...]
October 12th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
[...] Additional Reading, an excellent perspective on why you don’t want to have a job: [...]
October 31st, 2006 at 7:34 am
[...] But now I feel like it’s too limited just to be funny. I also want to be intelligent. I’ve decided to go back to college on a semi-regular basis. Possibly three to four classes and working towards a degree. I probably think the degree with be in mathematics, but it doesn’t really matter to me. As long as I have a degree, I guess. Then I may go for a masters in communication. I don’t know. It all depends what happens with this whole comedy thing. I will always love comedy and I will always write comedy, not to mention, I will always write, period. So no matter what I end up doing, be it comedy or writing, or some crazy math job, I’m always going to work on my passion, whether or not it generates income for me. Generating income from my passion would be nice, as I will be in total control of my life, unlike working for an evil bovine master. So with all respect, it would ba amazing to be able to leverage my ability to make people laught, but I’m not all about that. Part of me is that. But the rest of me wants to stimulate the mind and I do that in my comedy, but I feel like I have more to give as well, so bear withme if this blog isn’t always funny or always making you laugh because I feel that just making people laugh will make you become one of those one-dimensional people. Until next time, peace. [...]
October 31st, 2006 at 12:53 pm
[...] What really got me thinking though was this post by Steve Pavlina on a somewhat related subject about working for an hourly wage, and why it is — or can be — a bad thing. [...]
November 7th, 2006 at 8:27 am
[...] One of my favorites is Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development for Smart People blog. This site is full of motivation and he covers so many topics, including time management, money and problem solving. I first stumbled across his site when he wrote 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job - an absolute classic! Incidentally, Steve has just launched his Forums section and it has attracted over 1000 members in just the first three days! [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 6:19 am
[...] I sound a bit cynical today, and I guess there is a reason for it. A while back, I was telling some friends why I would never again have a job working for someone else. Later, one of them emailed me a link to this blog post by a guy named Steve Pavlina. Steve is a fairly interesting guy, having graduated college in 3 semesters (!) and starting up several businesses. I do think he is a bit, uhhhm, California, let’s say. He is a Vegan, he believes in intention manifestation (?) and his wife does some sort of psychic, chakra-reading thing. But in business matters, I think he is right on. [...]
November 11th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
[...] Getting a good job is the best way to earn money Ask any entrepreneur if she’d like to quit and get a job. Then ask most people with a job if they’d like to quit and work for themselves. Most wealthy people will tell you a job is the worst way to make money. [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
[...] Additional Reading Steve Pavlina’s take on why you should never get another job: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job/ [...]
November 14th, 2006 at 5:49 am
[...] 2. Money. Ah…good old money. People start new businesses to make money. Many people think they can make more money as entrepreneurs. I just came across a great blog by Steve Olson. In a recent post 10 Things I Wish I Had Never Believed he writes: Getting a good job is the best way to earn money Ask any entrepreneur if she’d like to quit and get a job. Then ask most people with a job if they’d like to quit and work for themselves. Most wealthy people will tell you a job is the worst way to make money. [...]
November 14th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
[...] Today, after coming home from yet another long day at work school, I checked my email, RSS feeds, etc, and just decided to randomally hit my StumbleUpon button, and I came across this really interesting article about how to earn money, while not (officially) having a job. [...]
November 14th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
[...] Excellent stuff and I agree with all of it. Now I just need to make it happen! 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job: It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude. : [...]
November 15th, 2006 at 1:50 am
[...] In direct contradiction to the Offspring’s hit, “Why Don’t You Get A Job?” (…what?…), Steve Pavlina makes an excellent case for perpetual unemployment in his 10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job article. Among the reasons are the fact that you’re getting paid for working rather than getting paid for doing nothing, you have no freedom and your social life is “inbred”. He actually makes some very good points, although I, personally, am quite happy to remain in the realm of the employed ;- I could just do with earning more money… but then, couldn’t we all? … Christmas is coming. Oh, and in an effort to do just that (earn more money that is), I’m going to actively try to revive my DJ’ing business, starting with a gig this weekend in Balbriggan. Should anyone in Louth, Meath, Monaghan or North Co. Dublin need a good party DJ, drop me a line, eh? Speaking of earning money, I gave the tax office a shout and asked them to send me out closing statements for the past three years. They said they would, and they’d also send a cheque with any refund of taxes that I’m due. I’m not saying it’ll be massive, but anything would be nice, and I’d recommend it to anyone to do it. A friend of mine netted nearly €1,500 in tax back recently. Would be good timing right now, what with the yuletide season and all that shite just about to hit… their number is 1890 777 425. You’ll have to have your PPS number handy. [...]
November 15th, 2006 at 3:20 am
[...] 43f Links for Wednesday, November 15th Apple in deal to let iPod videos play on planes | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com “…iPod seat connections, which power and charge iPods during flight and allow the video content on the devices to be viewed on seat-back displays…” (tagged: apple mbwideas ipod) 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job He can also eat 50 eggs, earn a Ph.D., and kill a puma barehanded — all while you’re at lunch. Steve currently travels the nation with his blue ox, Babe. (tagged: stevepavlina) Thanko RareMono Shop USB ashtrays, slippers, gloves, ‘aroma diffusers’, bottle coolers, and more. Oh, those whacky, whacky Japanese. (tagged: catalog usb japanese) shmivejournal: my spectacular cold reading abilities at work “People tell me I have a gift, but I think the ability is within everybody — you just need to ‘find your center’” (tagged: prescience babies predictions heh) [...]
November 15th, 2006 at 5:57 am
[...] Today, after coming home from yet another long day at work school, I checked my email, RSS feeds, etc, and just decided to randomally hit my StumbleUpon button, and I came across this really interesting article about how to earn money, while not (officially) having a job. [...]
November 15th, 2006 at 11:07 am
[...] It’s ironic that I should happen to come across an article entitled 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job just this morning. The author states some pretty good points as to why one shouldn’t seek gainful employment, but offers very little alternatives other than “start a business”. But what if you do both? [...]
November 15th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
[...] His blog posting on this topic sums up exactly why I do what I do. [...]
November 17th, 2006 at 5:30 am
[...] Steve Palvina, has posted a lovely list of reasons why you should never take a full-time job, and even though it does get a pretty woolly at times, it’s still a good read… [...]
November 17th, 2006 at 6:20 am
[...] Steve has some interesting points here to back up his controversial stance; whether you’re a 9 to 5er or also freelancing, it’s worth a read. What do you think, lifehackers? Is a job truly a terrible way to make a living? Discuss amongst yourselves in the comments. — Gina Trapani 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job [Steve Pavlina] [...]
November 17th, 2006 at 9:38 am
[...] But I digress. He is Steve Pavlina and his article is entitled 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. [...]
November 17th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
[...] Back to how I started this blog. I’ve never really had a blog before. Sure, I already have a website (yes, I am also a video game dork), and a MySpace page, but never a real honest to goodness blog. The reason I started this page is actually thanks to someone else who I’ve never met. I was linked to this post on Steve Olson’s blog, then linked to this at Steve Pavlina’s great blog. I know what you’re thinking by now – this guy is starting a blog to make money. Well, no. I’m starting a blog to get my thoughts out there to see if anyone wants to hear them. I feel like I learn so many lessons every day that I can pass along. I’m also a cynical asshole sometimes, and want to share that. It’s just that I’ve never created my little piece of real estate on the web that is “blog” because I figured, who the hell would want to hear me? No way to find out until I try. And I really do have some good things to say, trust me! [...]
November 18th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
[...] from stevepavlina Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.” [...]
November 19th, 2006 at 5:52 am
[...] Steve Pavlina has 10 reasons why you should never get a job. Too late for me, apparently I’m already on the path to sadness and frustration. Particle Tree have 5 reasons why you should create your first startup now. They’re worth reading, especially the bits about failure. I had a startup once, I’ve still got the business number and put in a quarterly report or $0 income and expenditure. It’s much more work than anyone could initially anticipate without having actually done it. Of course there is also the other side of the coin, Paul Tyma has a list of 5 and then another 5 and more to come reasons why your startup idea might not be such a good idea. [...]
November 19th, 2006 at 5:54 am
[...] Came across this mighty interesting article – 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Get a Job Compelling?? I dunno – At this point of time and space in my life – hell yeah!! F*** the man [in a totally non-gay way] is my policy!! Not when The Man is not treating you as his child. Btw, since when did companies become “The Man” from Mothership? [...]
November 19th, 2006 at 7:24 am
[...] For example check out: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job [...]
November 20th, 2006 at 4:28 am
[...] 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job [Steve Pavlina] [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 2:58 am
10 reasons not to be employed
This is a quick post. Take a look at this post titled 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. Worth reading and pretty entertaining at the same time. Tags: 10 reasons, don’t get a job, why get a job,
November 21st, 2006 at 12:47 pm
[...] Welcome to my blog. After reading this article and then this article I’ve decided to start a blog which will both provide unique content and keep track of my progress. As I’m currently unemployed in any wage slavery I figure it will at least give me something to work on. [...]
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:02 am
[...] In times like these, when I have so much work that I can’t even update my blog with a small bit like this one (yesterday I skipped a posting, which made me a little upset and one reader anxious about me. Thanks, Doron, for noticing and caring) I look at these 10 reasons to never look for a job and give a long sigh. Then I get back to work :-S (via Lifehacker) [...]
November 29th, 2006 at 5:16 am
[...] Recently I’ve been reading Steve Pavlina’s very interesting Personal Development blog. Now I don’t agree with everything Steve says and have also sometimes thought he may be a bit of a quack, but what I do know is that Steve knows how to write convincing articles. One such article is ‘Ten Reasons You Should Never Get a Job‘ which I would really like to rename ‘One Really Good Reason You Should Never Get a Job’. [...]
December 4th, 2006 at 12:21 am
[...] Speaking of real reasons to hate Wal-Mart (as opposed to nutjob Biblical ones): the retailer is attempting to quell country-wide employee unrest by offering its minions an additional 10% off of a single store item for Christmas. Well, Katie bar the door. I’d tell the employees not to spend that all in one place, but, you know. Sure, it’s a neat little discount if you’re buying, say, a $3,000 plasma TV. Good luck affording that on your slashed Wal-Mart salary. There’s one upside to this story, though: it proves Steve Pavlina right. [...]
December 8th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
[...] Steve Pavlina on Ten Reasons you should never get a job. Awesome Article. Something in the ninth reason caught my eye, and I was instinctively able to rewrite it: 9. Loss of freedom. [...]
December 9th, 2006 at 10:47 am
[...] I get paid for working for others during the eight hour work day, but the job also heavily affects the free time and even the sleepy time. Doesn’t seem fare, does it (an occasional raise doesn’t help much because it is immediately punished by the local “encouraging” taxing system). I’m not that much into charity… Maybe I really should put some effort into research on other types of income acquisition methods with better value/time benefit as Steve Pavlina implies in his interesting article on not having a “real” job. [...]
December 18th, 2006 at 1:52 am
[...] in addition to this i came across an article called “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job” by Steve Pavlina. this article spoke to me – it also triggered a desire to not be afraid of being unemployed. [...]
December 18th, 2006 at 8:05 am
[...] The article is a very good motivational piece that might act as a little nudge for some people to at least explore some other options while still relying on that nice paycheck every other week. If you enjoy this one you might also appreciate the 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. Both are well worth your time to look over. [...]
December 19th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
[...] All the reason above doesn’t mean that i’m scared of changes. This is just reasons. the pavlina writing on “10 reasons why u shouldn’t get a job” struck me more to see chances, opportunity and off course speed up the process. By making my own site it help me to develop my self, help me to focus on my purpose more clearly and make money too if possible . John Chow writing also help me the step by step if u want to try to monetize ur web, u could see his writing in Top Post. [...]
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:03 am
[...] Recently I read a post by Steven Pavlina, 10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job. [...]
December 29th, 2006 at 10:12 am
[...] I found this great article: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job on Steve Pavlina’s blog, and it reminded me of a book I read in the month or two before I quit my job: Making a Living Without a Job by Barbara Winter. It helped a lot in shifting my mind from “employee” to “self-employed”. And while it contains a lot of the same ideas as in the Steve Pavlina article, it also gives ideas for ways to make money quickly, when you’re just starting out or when you hit a low spot, and how to make that transition into having no “job.” [...]
January 8th, 2007 at 6:28 am
[...] What I want to share with you today is a article and a site that tells you why you should never get a job. Click here to visit StevePavlina website. Many people always give the reason that employment is the safest path, and they question me, what the crap you doing at home 24/7 [...]
January 9th, 2007 at 7:33 am
[...] I discovered this “personal development for smart people” website while doing some research on the law of attraction. Talk about CONTENT. I highly reccoment you check out this and this. If you have time check out the rest of the stuff. This guy is amazingly intelligent, and has opened some new doors in my life for me. [...]
January 16th, 2007 at 9:26 am
[...] As a companion to 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job and 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed, here are 10 positive lessons I learned from more than 12 years as an entrepreneur. A few of these are rehashed from the 10 Mistakes article, but most are new. [...]
January 17th, 2007 at 3:09 am
[...] Via een anonieme blogger. Ziehier de reden waarom veel intelligente, verstandige mensen depressieve verschijnselen gaan vertonen wanneer ze zich lange tijden bloot laten stellen aan bazen en cubicle dwellers. Steve Pavlina weet in dit artikel enkele gevoelige snaren te raken. [...]
January 18th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
[...] Pavlina and others can say over and over that working for someone else is one of the stupidest things smart people can do. And while the fact that the companies I’ve been fired from treat employees as commodities soothes me a bit, I still feel a bit like a failure. Even though all the people I worked with at LVI have also been fired I still focus on my own faults instead of that company’s. [...]
January 20th, 2007 at 9:43 am
[...] In my quest for ways to develop some passive income streams I have become fans of bloggers such as Steve Pavlina and Sterling and Jay over at the Internet Business Mastery podcast. Each of these experts have found ways to generate passive income through their businesses, and I plan to learn all that I can from them and follow their lead. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
[...] I sound a bit cynical today, and I guess there is a reason for it. A while back, I was telling some friends why I would never again have a job working for someone else. Later, one of them emailed me a link to this blog post by a guy named Steve Pavlina. Steve is a fairly interesting guy, having graduated college in 3 semesters (!) and starting up several businesses. I do think he is a bit, uhhhm, California, let’s say. He is a Vegan, he believes in intention manifestation (?) and his wife does some sort of psychic, chakra-reading thing. But in business matters, I think he is right on. [...]
January 27th, 2007 at 4:52 am
[...] 10 reasons you should never get a job [...]
February 1st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
[...] I sound a bit cynical today, and I guess there is a reason for it. A while back, I was telling some friends why I would never again have a job working for someone else. Later, one of them emailed me a link to this blog post by a guy named Steve Pavlina. Steve is a fairly interesting guy, having graduated college in 3 semesters (!) and starting up several businesses. I do think he is a bit, uhhhm, California, let’s say. He is a Vegan, he believes in intention manifestation (?) and his wife does some sort of psychic, chakra-reading thing. But in business matters, I think he is right on. [...]
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:02 am
[...] John Chow joins Steve Pavlina and Darren Rowse in an elite I make insane cash on my computer club. These guys are like financial planets. The more money they make, the easier it is for them to make more. Everyone (including me) wants to know how they did it, gets sucked in to the gravity of their blog (like I am), and throws links at them (like I just did). [...]
February 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
[...] 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job [...]
February 6th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
[...] Foi que num belo dia me deparei com o site de um cara chamado Steve Pavlina, onde ele postava religiosamente vários artigos para pessoas interessadas em seu desenvolvimento pessoal. O artigo era o “10 reasons you should never get a job”, artigo esse que aborda a área de inteligência financeira. [...]
February 8th, 2007 at 8:12 am
[...] Steve lists his 10 reasons to never get a job. The running joke here in Guelph, at least among our group of friends, is that you’re not truly Guelph until you don’t have a job. [...]
February 15th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
[...] Anyhow, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t kept up on my feeds. Steve Pavlina, who happens to be one of the (if not main) reasons I finally decided to live my dream and branch out on my own instead of working for others (here’s why), wrote this very inspiring post that I thought I’d share with you in case you haven’t seen it yet. [...]
February 18th, 2007 at 2:33 am
[...] Adam posted this link: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. It was a good reminder of everything I hate about working for someone else. Maybe instead of looking for a job, I should spend more time researching ways to make money on my own. Surely there are a few out there I could do that will let me break the $100,000/year mark within a couple of years. Send to: Del.icio.us digg reddit [...]
February 20th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
[...] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job/ Posted by Corey Koehler Filed in Uncategorized [...]
February 21st, 2007 at 3:03 pm
[...] For the first few months I was rarely busy at work. This lead to many hours of internet surfing and ultimately my inspiration. Everything started the day I found Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job on the del.icio.us popular page. It showed me the advantages of being self employed and made me believe that I could make it work. From there I found How to Make Money From Your Blog. This combined my passion for writing with a way to generate income. Starting a blog was an obvious decision. [...]
February 24th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
[...] That article is by Steve Pavlina and is titled 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job and I would encourage everyone to read it. My only objection to the overall title and I think there were other comments on his article as well about it, is the fact that this philosophy is not for everyone. Not everyone is entrepreneurial, or carries the spirit and even when they do, it takes time, it takes hard work, and it definitely requires an individual to understand their strengths and weaknesses to do their own thing and therefore, find their own path. So I wouldn’t say you should never get a job. But I would say, those are 10 reasons why everyone should work for themselves. Both figuratively and literally, but either path works. [...]
February 27th, 2007 at 3:34 am
[...] Enlightenment I always felt I was meant to do more than this job or any job! I never could fit in and be another clog in a corporate machine; a constant source of headache to my bosses! But I finally found my path, thanks to Steve Pavlina. I’m going to lose my job. Yes, that’s my plan. [...]
March 6th, 2007 at 11:12 am
[...] So I converted this sole proprietorship to limited liability company (LLC), and I did an IRS election to have the LLC treated as a C-corporation for tax purposes. Soon I’ll be setting up payroll for the business, and Erin and I will become employees of our own company. I’ll finally have a real job! Instead of having all the business income flow to us personally (and be taxed at the highest personal tax rates), we’ll be keeping a lot of money in the business where it will be taxed at the lower corporate rate. Although this is a more complex tax situation than the simple flow-through taxation of a sole proprietorship or S-corporation, the net effect is that it will save us thousands of dollars in taxes each year, which means more money to grow the business. [...]
March 17th, 2007 at 12:00 am
[...] Then I happened upon a post by Steve Pavlina called 10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job. It pretty much summarized what I was feeling, and another post where Steve spoke about the income his blog was bringing in prompted me to look into this whole blogging thing. Up until this point, I’d never really paid blogging much attention. I always figured it was just about some guy talking about how his day was. I was quite amazed to see what was being blogged about, and how content was being produced. [...]
April 8th, 2007 at 8:51 am
[...] This kind of state I feel that it’ll be a draw back for me in a few years a head. I never knew it was going to be a burden, i just guess that its goin to be worst if I didn’t do anything. I gain this consciousness from seeing my families and the society around me. They do their routine as an employee and yet they always regret why their life aren’t improve as they hope for. I’m not saying that working as an employee doesn’t improve your life materially, they do, they actually do but sometimes it just materially improve and get you to the comfort zone. You have to wait if u want to be really success in your lines of work. and waiting can dull your skill. Even more i became more aware after reading Pavlina writing about working as an employee. [...]
April 9th, 2007 at 8:20 am
[...] Nevertheless, there is so much good stuff on it, that I find myself going back to re-read my favorite articles. One of them is the classic 10 reasons you should never get a job, and another is about overcoming news addiction. Since Nice4Rice is all about blogging for money though, let me tell you about Steve’s 7,300 word article, How to Make Money From Your Blog. [...]
April 10th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
[...] Steve Pavlina – I tried to leave Steve out (because he’s already so popular), but simply couldn’t. After all, if I hadn’t stumbled upon his blog, you wouldn’t be reading eJabs at all. That’s right…Steve’s article on 10 reasons you should never get a job inspired me to read further, and after reading further, I discovered his article on how to make money from your blog; and here I am! Thanks Steve. [...]
April 30th, 2007 at 5:32 am
[...] Of course, all these excerpts aren’t as good as the complete thing. Share This Post:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
May 1st, 2007 at 5:17 am
[...] Found a very interesting article entitled 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job by Steve Pavlina. Even if you aren’t planning on making the jump from full-time employment to your own gig, head on over and check it out; it’s an interesting read. [...]
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:19 am
[...] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job/ [...]
May 12th, 2007 at 1:07 am
[...] Obviously, I’m not quitting my job. I came across Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job, thanks to Stellify. This guy has weird posts and many people in the blogosphere think so as well. But, it’s still food for thought. [...]
May 15th, 2007 at 9:29 am
[...] Consider my current business model. I have no products, no inventory, no customers, no sales, no employees, and no office outside my home. I haven’t spent a dime on marketing since I launched this site in October 2004. But I earn about $40K per month, mostly from joint-venture promotions, advertising, affiliate programs, and donations. Two years ago this site was bringing in about $150/month, and one year ago it was earning around $6K/month, so that’s a pretty nice rate of growth. The income does fluctuate from month to month, but the positive cashflow is high enough that the fluctuations don’t matter. I maintain a substantial cash reserve too, so I could survive a very long time even if all my income suddenly shut off. This is much less risky than having a job. [...]
May 16th, 2007 at 6:37 am
[...] How many times in a day can one be revisited with the notion that this isn’t what I want. Of whether there is an inherent purpose in striving to repeat the same routine day in day out. I am even more perplexed and disillusioned by this herd existence when I face the problem that it is manufactured reality that is implanted into our psyche and is not a very smart way to map out a life path. Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job extols the virtue of self employment and it is a hard idea to move away from once you’ve accepted the validity of the argument. Grinding away life at the millstones of some corporate machine is disheartening and almost obscene. The obscenity lies not in the way society is structured but by the eagerness in which we slaves contribute or subscribe to fate. Begrudging as it is, the idea that Steve expresses in Lifelong Domestication is fairly close to the truth in the serfdom we freely choose; 3. Lifelong domestication. [...]
May 19th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
[...] 41. Develop multiple streams of passive income. Passive income is income that does not require your direct involvement. Familiar examples include income from a rental property and royalties from either an invention or creative work. This is a good article for those who wish to learn more. You may also like to consider that relying one a single source of income is risky. [...]
May 25th, 2007 at 9:18 am
10 Reasons to Quit Your Day Job
Anyone who’s worked for a corporation has had plenty of moments where they wish they didn’t. Bosses make ridiculous demands; co-workers procrastinate and make you pick up the slack; no one listens to reason when you tell them the obvious. I…
June 5th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
[...] Need to remind yourself how fabulous your freelancing life is? Check out The 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job at Steve Pavlina’s site. He discusses why freelancing is good for the intellect, skill set, bank account and soul. Steve Pavlina has some fantastic articles so spend some time poking around. [...]
June 6th, 2007 at 10:44 am
[...] Let’s make this personal. For instance, if you quit working as an account manager at a large SEO firm, and then work for clients on your own, you’re only siezing some of the benefits of the entrepeneur (the ability to set your own hours, choose your projects, etc.) But in many ways you’re still a chump. (I mean that in a nice way.) There’s a cap on how many hours you can work in a week, so in effect you’re still earning an hourly wage. And for every successful SEO campaign you manage, you receive about 5% of the profit benefit, and the client receives the other 95% of the profit benefit. Finally, don’t forget that once you stop working, you stop getting paid. That’s no way to live! [...]
June 13th, 2007 at 1:01 am
[...] A seed was planted the day I read Steve Pavlina’s, 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. Through that article I found How to Make Money From Your Blog and ever since I’ve been obsessed with creating a profitable website based on my own original writing. It wasn’t Steve’s monetary success that inspired me, it was his literary style. The wit, the humor, the brutal honesty, and the fact that people were eating it up and begging for more made me believe that I could do it too; that I could build a business around my passion. [...]
June 14th, 2007 at 11:43 am
[...] Read Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. [...]
June 15th, 2007 at 4:04 am
[...] That’s why this article from Steve Palina struck such a chord with me. So, give yourself some freedom to take a couple minutes, pour yourself a cup of coffee, sit back, relax and read the whole thing. You’ll be glad you did. [...]
June 25th, 2007 at 10:14 am
[...] Lack of error correction - Once errors get into the system, they tend to stick around for a while. One bad decision left uncorrected will soon see more errors piled on top of it. This is how people sink into debt, put on weight, and get jobs, only to regret it later. Apparently we’d rather be stupid than appear stupid. [...]
June 28th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
[...] A big issue with me is the value of time versus money. I strongly believe there is nothing more valuable than time. I also thing making a conscious decision about how you spend your time when making money or just relaxing is one of the most important decisions anyone can make. Steve Pavlina has a great article about 10 reasons not to have a job. I couldn’t agree more. [...]
July 5th, 2007 at 1:41 am
[...] For more good reasons not to work for the man, check out Steve Pavlina’s 10 reasons you should never get a job. [...]
July 9th, 2007 at 10:51 am
[...] Steve Pavlina is probably well known for many people reading about personal development but if you haven’t heard about him you should definitelly visit his blog starting from the post 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway. [...]
July 17th, 2007 at 8:31 am
[...] #6 – Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job [...]
July 22nd, 2007 at 2:55 am
[...] This article by Steve Pavlina hits me right in the spot about how I feel about employment. [...]
July 24th, 2007 at 1:18 am
[...] It is comforting to stay within broken ground where everything is familiar, but the rewards of breaking new ground are considerably greater. A great example is Steve Pavlina, who rejected the notion he had to have a job. Instead he published a series of personal development articles that give him the freedom to write for a living and earn a relatively passive income. Breaking new ground to this extent is not feasible for everyone, but everyone is capable of questioning core assumptions and making changes in their lives. [...]
August 20th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
[...] I was surfing around the net and found out a great blog post by Steve Pavlina. Now he’s discussing 10 Reasons why you should never get a job. I wholeheartedly agree with him. Having never gone to a “Real Job”. I can relate to him. [...]
September 5th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
[...] I first found Steve’s blog, through his article, entitled “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job” and then How To Make Money From Your Blog. These are detailed and consise posts that cover alot of material on how to blog and how to profit from blogging. I was more impressed with Steve after reading that he is a devout vegan and has been one for over 10 years. [...]
September 10th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
[...] Why you never should get a job! [...]
September 29th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
[...] – Have read Steve Pavlina’s post 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. [...]
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
[...] Meanwhile, I have a few other things going on in my life. Several months ago I got really serious about taking better care of myself and getting my body into the toned shape I’ve been longing for. While, I’m not yet in the toned physique I desire, I have lost ten pounds and I know that my food and exercise choices are much better than they were. I have the beginnings of good habits in both of these areas, but I must continue to reinforce them and be somewhat diligent about these things. I also have this blog, which is my accountability so, that connects it to all of my goals and personal development challenges. And finally, since I have stopped having a day job (celebration!!!! I highly recommend quiting by the way, try it, you’ll be amazed. And if you need a bit of inspiration allow me to suggest that you read: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job by Steve Pavlina.) I must produce income in some fashion and for now I’m doing it by creating websites for small businesses. [...]
October 4th, 2007 at 12:36 am
[...] Regular readers already know how I feel about legalized slavery and long-term, low-pay prostitution. My friend Steve said it very well here, listing 10 reasons why even young folks should never get a job. Many of the audience here is like me, well seasoned and now out of the rat race, so we don’t have to wrestle with the decision. Here;s a lady, though, who doesn’t have as many miles on her as I do … isn’t retired … currently has a job … and is dumping it to be a full-time blogger. All i can say is, in the slang of a few years back, You go, girl! [...]
October 25th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
[...] Steve Pavlina tells us 10 reasons you should never get a job. It’s an old article but I just read it for the first time. I wish I had read this 15 years ago, or read this book. Now that I charge an hourly rate I really appreciate just how much I am paid for physically parking myself in a chair. Often I could get something done in two hours, but there is no incentive for me not to spend eight appearing to get it done (my consulting company requires clients to pay for at least eight hours a day unless I choose to leave early). [...]
October 31st, 2007 at 7:12 pm
[...] (Along those lines, here’s a great article from Steve Pavlina on 10 Reasons to never get a job! He states things pretty strongly, but even as someone that had a job for 15 years, I think he’s right on the money.) [...]
November 7th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
[...] Came across this mighty interesting article – 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Get a Job Compelling?? I dunno – At this point of time and space in my life – hell yeah!! F*** the man [in a totally non-gay way] is my policy!! Not when The Man is not treating you as his child. Btw, since when did companies become “The Man” from Mothership? [...]
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:57 pm
[...] I’m going to borrow this one from Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job. It’s #6 on his list; just visit the link to look it up. [...]
December 7th, 2007 at 5:09 am
[...] I follow Steve Pavlina, shoemoney, and John Chow and see how their making a LOT of money blogging and it’s mostly content that has a long shelf life. My favorite post of Steve’s is 10 reasons you should never have a job. This would have been relevant 100 years ago and probably will be for another 100 more! Blogging should not be post that you read about some cool toy (iphone?) and have 1,000 bloggers list the same (its cool) features, (okay maybe for some blogs) but seriously lets focus on quality content that has a long shelf life. [...]
December 26th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Why getting a job is for dummies
This title hopefully grabs your attention – I mean, who actually wants to work?
Ok, that’s a bit of a strong statement – most of us get some sort of enjoyment from our work, the feeling of a purpose, the accomplishment, the social element, and of…
December 31st, 2007 at 9:42 pm
[...] Drink these steps in and stay tuned for my explanation on each. After you have read these steps be sure to check out Steve Pavlina’s post on 10 reasons on why you should quit your day job. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “It’s time to quit your job.”, url: “http://www.studios3.com/lawrencescott/archives/2008/01/its-time-to-quit-your-job” }); [...]
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 am
[...] Being a risk taker can actually be safer then someone who is NOT. Think about this, if you never take a risk or play it safe, you could not only be missing out on a lot of things, but when it comes time to “differentiate” yourself from others, how do you show it. Say you have a steady job that you “feel” is secure, do you think if the company lost half it’s revenue in a year, they would still keep you on? I am going to pimp the blog of Steven Pavlina with a great article, 10 reasons you SHOULD NEVER get a job. Being a risk taker is hard, but also rewarding. You can learn a lot about something (including yourself) if you step out of your comfort zone and take action. A comfort zone is different for everyone, it might be asking someone for their phone number, or even saying “hi” to a person. By challenging yourself daily, you can “practice” this and not feel so much “pain” if you mess it up, or fail. I know in 2007, I have stepped out of my comfort zone a LOT and challenge myself daily at various networking events I attended. Moving out to Arizona was a big change for me as well as a great way to meet new people and change my life dramatically. Everyone needs change in their life at some point, it’s just a matter of whether you take that step out of your comfort zone for yourself or if someone else pulls the rug out from under you. [...]
January 5th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
[...] These individuals and the thousands like them are creating a new economy that many traditional businesses may want to take note of. Sure, they are not amazon.com, nor are they e-bay but they are beginning to look like seek.com with their employment ads. They send people around the world to mini-malls and adsense ads when they pique their interest – so they are generating a new source of income. (Steve Pavlina suggest $40,000 per month!) [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 10:41 am
[...] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job/ [...]
January 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am
[...] Normally when we hear someone spout off on how working is for losers, we assume they’re some trust fund brat who doesn’t know what it’s like to need to work. But this blog actually provided several funny reasons why working is bad for not just you but the world. While we don’t think the author is 100 percent serious with his suggestions, it is worth rethinking what work means to you–not your job, but work as a concept. Do you believe, like Khalil Gibran once said, that work is love made visible? Or do you think that work is a necessary evil that gives you the ability to have freedom in other aspects of your life (like not living on the street…or with your parents). Although it may seem far removed from your day to day job to contemplate the deeper meaning of a word, but it might help you put things in perspective. [...]
March 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
[...] StevePavlina – One of the forerunning personal development blogs on the internet today. Steve talks about ways to master your time management, nurture motivation to reach your goals, and how to develop balance within your life. Steve has written articles like 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job and 30 days to Success. [...]
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 am
[...] his blog he advices never to get a job (article 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job). Build systems that make money when you sleep! When you have a decent collection of articles in [...]
April 29th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
[...] Idea with Donny Deutsch or maybe I have been reading to many blogs praising self employment like Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons to Never Get a Job . Either way I decided that it has been some time that I stood at the edge, and it was time to take [...]
May 12th, 2008 at 1:32 am
[...] a foolish thing to do in today’s world, and why self-employment is your only real security. 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job or a companion piece, 10 Myths Abut [...]
May 15th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
[...] a “9 to 5″ job for a corporation is bad, working for yourself is good. There are a many reasons typically given for this, such as how working for yourself is less risky than a corporate job, or your experience is limited [...]
May 25th, 2008 at 1:27 am
[...] Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons why you should never get a job [...]
May 30th, 2008 at 6:46 am
[...] is an inspirational, in-your-face outlook on careers. 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job by Steve Pavlina. It will give you something to think [...]
June 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am
[...] in which working a job can be very limiting. Steve Pavlina has already covered them in his post 10 reasons why you should never get a job, and I don’t have the energy to repeat his thoughts, with which I totally agree. Essentially, [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
[...] First, consider how most people are taught to earn money. Social conditioning says to go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a job and get a steady paycheck. Now, if there is a particular occupation that you want to have like being a teacher or a video game developed, this is a great way to do something you love. As far as making money goes, however, this is not the most intelligent way to go about things. For a list of reasons why, check out 10 Reasons You Should Never Have a Job. [...]
July 4th, 2008 at 11:08 am
[...] Near the end of his 2-1/2 keynote, he brought one of his daughters up on stage to talk about her experiences quitting her corporate job with Best Buy to start her own business. She seemed very nervous and needed to catch her breath a lot, but the audience was supportive of her. Personally I didn’t find her new career choice (designing and selling leather laptop bags) to be particularly inspiring, but I know the whole idea of leaving corporate thinking behind is a big issue for a lot of people, and it helps to know it can be done. [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
[...] ever came across on the internet. Here are a few of my favorite posts that you should check out: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job – Self-Discipline – How to Get From a 7 to a [...]
August 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am
[...] then I remember a post I read online called “Ten Reasons Not to Get a Day Job“ . The reality is that there is no security. In fact by going with a single employer, a [...]
August 14th, 2008 at 6:04 am
[...] For the next 40 years of my life?” And I stumbled across an article online: Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job: It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
[...] think about your job you should not focus on stability as a driving factor. Steve Pavlina wrote a great article on why you should not get a job. I agree with him, you should try to find something you are [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
[...] like to share with you excerpt from the Steve’s “10 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job” post: 1. Income for [...]
September 24th, 2008 at 9:23 am
[...] But, I have never quite been able to risk quitting my job. Surviving two layoffs and reading Steve Pavlina gave me the confidence I needed to make this [...]
September 27th, 2008 at 12:52 am
[...] To Be A Writer & I Don’t Know What I Want To Do With My Life! from Ms Gala. 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Get A Job from Steve [...]
October 1st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
[...] that generates countless referrals for me and which did very well on social bookmarking sites is “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job.” The title of that article violates expectations, and the content is even more over-the-top. [...]
March 5th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
[...] such as an entrepreneur, salesperson, or investor. Employees are certainly generous, but usually dumb as stumps with their financial [...]