Of course you should know that something is wrong from here. How can the baker be buying a slice? I could remember when I was doing my IT training in a big eatery. The production floor was always well monitored. ALL cameras were linked to the manager's office to ensure you are not making use of any company product. work and don't put anything unapproved in your mouth, if you need it, head over to the counter when you are done with work and buy it. How many of us could afford it? It will take a huge chunk if not your entire salary to afford such luxury.
To challenge of more for less is still hitting the global economy and this is happening everyday, it seems to be a well approved standard of our current system. How many workers retire happy and satisfied. Yes I know, we go again! Not everyone is meant to be an entrepreneur Dani. How are you planning to curb your current underpayments? How about working like a jackass situation too?
Let's come to the limelight, there are so many loopholes in the current world's way of operations. This is the more reason I love doing the opposite of what many do and it is working out very fine for me. One of those things was; go to school, have a good grade and secure a good job. So what did Dani do? I quit school at my ND level and I said to myself if I don't have an establishment I am not going back there. Come on, who is fooling who here? All my friends that were ahead of me were sending back unfavorable signals that the labor market is not as they expected.
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There was no secure job, no good pay. The scarce ones available were well occupied and those in there were not ready to let go for any reason. It was more like a family business. Maybe it's just that the ones ahead of me were limited in luck or fortune. Or maybe perhaps they were giving me a signal for a needed U-turn. Then was even better, the labor market is far worse than it was a decade ago. We are now talking of scarcer jobs, worse pays adding with bad money (devalued fiat) and it is like suffocation.
What prompted this writing is a writeup I saw online which states, "A person who has to bake a loaf of bread to earn money and buy a slice is not free". Without much argument one should be able to attest to this fact. We are having more cage birds than free ones. This is something many are failing to realize, even the caged ones mostly assume they are free. Am I now kicking against jobs? Don't get me wrong. But we have to answer the right question? Are we actually free humans? The issue of freedom is tagged to time and more stressless time to be more precise.
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The question of how the next phase of the labor market will look like needs to be well addressed. Following these same theories will still land us in a dead end. Who said everyone cannot be an entrepreneur? My advice is very simple, don't settle for any job that does not give you spare time. That's the first trick, being overdependent on a paid job is like taking a high risk with low reward. You will continue to bake what you cannot afford.
This is one of the reasons I side with creating my own business and adding to that, seeing another way of operating the future that web3 has brought closer to our doors. When I said, make sure you have reserve time, I meant it. It is reserved time that opens us up for opportunities. Just like now, I am writing this article, it is of course another means of earning a living. How would I have been able to do this when I am locked up in a six to six job?
To conclude, let me add, there is a need for a mentality shift, even I do not cage down those working for or with me. I believe I can't pay them enough for such time and I have to be factual about that. This is the more reason I choose working with contract staff. When there is something to do, I call them in, when there is nothing to do, why not free them to source out a living elsewhere. I don't know how that feels to you, yet I feel humans need more independence. We need to think broadly and leverage every opportunity to meet up our daily demands without over-stressing or being caged. The cage is not paying.