Be Your Own Boss—Work for Yourself

You know, it’s really quite unfair if you’ve been working for a boss for years now. Tsk, tsk, tsk. You work more than you’re paid for and it’s even worse if you work extra for free. You’re made to do overtime work and you spend for it with your own money. That’s triple unfair. And do you want to continue with that for the rest of your life when you can be your own boss?

You work from 8 to 5 and you do the same things every day. How can you develop as a person with that boredom and monotony? Oh yeah, you attend office seminars and conferences, but really, how do they make you better? What counts there is your attendance—so you’d get your per diem or measure up to the allowance given you—but other than that, nothing, zero. It’s more a waste of time than career equipment.

Find Your Better Lot in Life

I say you work for yourself instead. Be your own boss and find your better lot in life. And the only road to it is doing your own small business. Small at first. It will be risky especially at the outset, but once the profit picks up, you’re on your way to freedom and self realization. Find a small business you can do. What do you like doing? What do you really want to do in life? Find out if there could be a market created for that.

There was this guy who loved bananas. He was tired of his job and was contemplating on doing a business. He thought of selling bananas. Sure, there were lots of businesses selling bananas already, but no one delivered bananas directly to offices during lunch time. So he started with that. He delivered fresh, plump bananas to employees in offices during lunch time. He created a new market for bananas.

It looked weird for a while, but the thing worked over time. He established himself as a banana seller during lunch. He also casually talked about the health benefits of bananas now and then so that people all the more bought his product, realizing their need for the micro nutrients present in bananas. After all, bananas were affordable.

Soon, he was delivering to every company in the block. He brought crates to supply employees in companies located on every floor of the buildings there. Gradually, he included other fruits. His love for bananas, with a little imagination and daring, led him to the road to freedom and realization of his true potential.

So, give it a moment of thought: How would you like to be your own boss? If you like the idea, start to think of ideas how you can work for yourself.