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Old 04-14-2009, 10:27 AM   #87 (permalink)
Bruce Achterberg
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Originally Posted by dwixi View Post
I understand that jobs are not always the best thing for people but really ... isn't working for someone just the same as having your own business?
Really your boss is just your business client and your workmates are just business partners. Its just a longer term project than if you had your own business.
I know that people that don't look at it in this way have the danger of seeing their job as something else.
So yeah what I'm asking is is their really a need to be so against jobs, you have an article called " 10 reasons why you should never get a job" There good points for people that are unaimed in life and don't know what there doing but the same problems that you said happen when you have a job would also happen to those kind of people if they had a business too!
Thanks.
Have you had a job recently? They're pretty bad!

But on the other hand, I don't think it's the job "model" that's so bad... I think it's the current iteration of the job model.

Right now the job paradigm is filled with an excessive amount of compartmentalisation, not very well aligned with truth, love, or power (aka, "TLP").

Lack of alignment with TLP creates a not-so-good experience in any situation.

There are workplaces out there that are more in alignment with TLP, and those are actually fairly decent places to work with (from what I've seen, heard, and can assume).

Jobs can be good, but at the moment, the vast majority, and the paradigm and ideas that paradigm is founded on, are bloody terrible and need to be overhauled. We're bleeding our talent, contribution, and purpose profusely (although not everyone is... just a fair few people).

Working for yourself or having your own business(es) just has such a ridiculously high upside compared to most jobs and places of work. I would absolutely love to see some places of work that start to change that, though... but it'll take some doing. Interestingly, the things that most need to change aren't the jobs or places of work, but the people who create them.

Enter Steve.

(Also enter Bruce, and his fellow lightworkers. You can never have enough lightworkers at a party.)
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