Ok, so i recently started a corporate job, it's my first one, and my first job i've had in a while. I just graduated college last summer.
I'm already starting to loathe the job. I don't do any real work, and i basically just need to be there for 8-9 hours every day. What a waste.
After doing some thinking tonight, and after seeing a GE commercial saying "if you aren't have fun at your job, your doing the wrong thing".
Then i asked myself, what do i really want out of a job. My answer was always "I want to make a lot of money". Now here I am with a corporate job making money that people would give an arm and a leg to make these days, not liking it, and prospectively going to another corporate company for an interview in a month for a different job.
then it struck me! the reason i'm not really liking this job, or any job i have ever had for that matter, is because i'm not making my own money. I'm getting paid a specific salary, regardless of how good/bad i am at my job, and it will always be linear in terms of how much i make. Work 10 years make more money simple.
But what i realized is that i dont think i will ever be happy living that type of reality. Going to work everyday is bad enough, wasting an entire day in an office building is a tragedy, then realizing that the only way i can make more money at this job is to invest years of my life into a company that could lay me off tomorrow just does not seem to make sense.
So here's my question to all of you, would you rather make 30k a year, making all that money by yourself, learning everyday, and basically not being limited to making more or less money, its on you. Or would you rather work for someone else doing work for them making 60k a year?
I'm challenging myself on this question right now, and after i give it a few months i'll have a much better idea of where i stand. But damn, let me tell you it is no fun, and the money does not make up for the monotony and inefficiency of this job.
that is all
I'm already starting to loathe the job. I don't do any real work, and i basically just need to be there for 8-9 hours every day. What a waste.
After doing some thinking tonight, and after seeing a GE commercial saying "if you aren't have fun at your job, your doing the wrong thing".
Then i asked myself, what do i really want out of a job. My answer was always "I want to make a lot of money". Now here I am with a corporate job making money that people would give an arm and a leg to make these days, not liking it, and prospectively going to another corporate company for an interview in a month for a different job.
then it struck me! the reason i'm not really liking this job, or any job i have ever had for that matter, is because i'm not making my own money. I'm getting paid a specific salary, regardless of how good/bad i am at my job, and it will always be linear in terms of how much i make. Work 10 years make more money simple.
But what i realized is that i dont think i will ever be happy living that type of reality. Going to work everyday is bad enough, wasting an entire day in an office building is a tragedy, then realizing that the only way i can make more money at this job is to invest years of my life into a company that could lay me off tomorrow just does not seem to make sense.
So here's my question to all of you, would you rather make 30k a year, making all that money by yourself, learning everyday, and basically not being limited to making more or less money, its on you. Or would you rather work for someone else doing work for them making 60k a year?
I'm challenging myself on this question right now, and after i give it a few months i'll have a much better idea of where i stand. But damn, let me tell you it is no fun, and the money does not make up for the monotony and inefficiency of this job.
that is all
