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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  I write anti-job pieces because so many of us are socially conditioned to believe that jobs are just a natural and expected part of life. I like to nudge people to take a more conscious look at the alternatives. We're taught to believe we must have jobs, but the truth is that they're usually more trouble than they're worth.
In the scope of human history, jobs are a fairly recent invention, a modernization of slavery and indentured servitude.
Between the jobbed and the jobless folks I know, the jobless ones are almost invariably happier, healthier, wealthier, and wiser. People who have jobs for a long time tend to be really messed up -- it's like every ounce of courage has been drained out of them, and many suffer from panaphobia (fear of everything). |
The thing I'm having trouble with is... where do you draw the line between a job and a business job... say you had a business in game development and you made your own games, what would be the difference between doing that as a business and doing that working for someone... There could be many advantages to working for someone... you would get more skilled people to work with on a daily basis, technology that you might not be able to afford if it was your own business and a building made specifically for you to do the work you love in.
I could see the downside of working permanently for one company making you scared about loosing it because you get so used to not having to find ways to make money from your work... but i cant think of any other downsides..
I personally prefer to have a business because the kind of things i want to be involved in the creation and marketing of (art and music) you can't get a job doing that kind of thing without majority compromising the kind of things i want to do.