You're absolutely right, Steve. We need money, but a job may not be the best way to go about it. It could be a nice short-term solution (together with selling your stuff at dump prices or calling a shady loneshark who won't bother with checking your finances first), but long-term, it can bite you in the ass. I've seen this everywhere around me:
- My mother used to be a nurse, until she had a stroke. She can no longer do her job, so the cashflow has stopped as well.
- My father is a manager of a nursinghome that provides care to people in their own homes (not quite sure if I translated this right), but when his boss turned out to be a scammer, the whole company went belly-up and he was left in the dust, blinking and wondering what the **** just happened. He now has a new job and is LOVING it, but danger still lurks in the shadows.
- My father's new boss is an awesome guy and a jack-of-all-trades. He owns this carebusiness, but also a cleaningbusiness, a cateringcompany and lord knows what else. Unfortunately, they are not self-sufficient and he still needs to attent. His wife and daughters need to help out as well in the cleaningbusiness and there are times he has to operate on only 2 hours of sleep for 60 hours, just to keep everything running until he can afford to hire more managers like my dad.
I don't like any of the three scenarios above. My mother lost her income, because she could no longer do her work. My dad lost his, because the company he worked for went down the drain. He has a new job, but the same danger still exists. My father's boss thinks he owns business, but in my eyes, he just owns jobs. Sure, he can't get fired (except if you count bankrupty), and he doesn't have all his eggs in one basket, but at the expense of his time and health.
I will try to find a way to make money work for me, so I won't have to.
