The Top 5 Reasons Why Your Job Sucks
Recently, I was on lunch at my shitty job, one that’s like 10 times BELOW my capabilities like the rest of the 50% of underemployed graduates. I fired up my Zite app [awesome for you bloggers out there] and started scrolling through the morning’s news and found this interesting article, Why Do People Hate Their Jobs. I thought to myself, did my phone just read my mind or was this exactly what I need to see? Read on to find out how what happened and how it relates to you monkeys who hate your job...
James Altucher, the author it turns out is a serial entrepreneur, has been in and out of the HF scene not to mention marriages, and is seemingly the epitome of resilience. He’s been high on life and at rock bottom so many times that it kind of makes me realize what I’ve been missing out on but I’m not sure if that’s good thing. Regardless, check him out for yourself here.
So according to his corner on life, why do people hate their jobs? Well, not everyone “hates” their jobs but I think its safe to say that their are people who are dissatisfied. So here’s what he had to say and I’ve sprinkled in my own experiences for emphasis. See if you find yourself agreeing or smashing this to bits...
1. IT'S MODERN DAY SLAVERY
We are paid enough to simply live but if you’re paid well, then you’re addicted to a higher spending lifestyle instead of a slave to debt. My best friend is a middle manager and traded his freedom in for work for about $50K. He’s got no social life, ambition, or free time. I can only image the indenture of making of $100K as an IB.
2. YOUR ON-THE-JOB FRIENDS ARE REAL FRIENDS
I don’t play this facade. My friends are people I know really well, from college, fraternity, or spent enough time with them outside of work to know who they are. I have a queue of Facebook friend requests from work but you’ve got to make the grade if you want to be my friend. A corporate banking alma mater of mine said it best,
...treat people like credit. Give them a $100 and see how they spend it and if they’re irresponsible, f*ck ‘em.”
3. ALWAYS GOING, AT, OR COMING BACK FROM WORK
This shit goes on from 7am to 7pm Monday thru Friday and maybe even on the weekends. That leaves your most creative and effective times garbage-compacted into your cubicle when you’re not getting pounded with other wasteful activities like meetings, emails, and random other priorities. Even worse, corporate tries to fix that with more hours despite the fact there IS NO positive one-to-one correlation of working hours to productivity [google “science of productivity”].
4. YOUR IRA ISN'T FOR RETIREMENT
More like a clever incentive to keep you chained to your cubicle both physically and mentally. Be a corporate slave for 40 years, save religiously, and when pay day comes so does inflation and taxes. 30% is a BIG bite if you’ve been prudent enough to net a mil but at least you can look back at your life of servitude at a ripe old age with a smile...thank goodness for social security!
5. YOU’RE NOT GREAT AT YOUR JOB
While you may think you’re good, the reality is most us are not and I’m no exception. We can be replaced by younger, cheaper, and more robotic versions of us albeit there are some exceptions. The all-star MM or the big dealer IB but don’t BS yourself, how many of you monkeys are really at the top of your game?
The reason I shared this is because it strikes a deep chord in all of us, a yearning to be free and excel in our own right. Remember last year’s post about Stephen Ridley who walked away from IB to pursue his dream of music? Yeah, it went viral on WSO and was eventually featured in Bloomberg.
But more importantly, I want to get you monkeys thinking out there if you’re in a similar situation and if you are, stay tuned next week where I talk about what I’ve done about it and what you can do too...
Mine sucks and I do not fall under any of these. James Altucher is also a lunatic, despite his constant success and failures.
Pretty much all work sucks, you might as well try to get paid the most for your time.
For the record, I know this isn't your stuff, so don't take this personally:
I'm pretty sure that one's an insult to everyone who was in slavery or who had relatives die in slavery, both here or abroad. The term slavery gets thrown around way too much. Working for $50k, or $100k, or whatever, is not only not slavery by definition, but hardly anywhere near the conditions that slaves throughout the ages had to live with. It's a lazy comparison.
This is awesome. One of my favorite parts of my job are that there are people I can legitimately consider friends.
This actually doesn suck. I have a 2.5 hour total commute every day. It'll change soon when I move downtown though.
Actually, it is, but you should have tons of different types of savings by the time you retire. If you don't, don't retire.
The author needs to speak for himself and not project his insecurities on others
da fuck is this
LOL @ trading in your freedom for $50K. People who are really trading in their freedom are doing it at multiples of "$50K".
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