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Old 12-12-2004, 08:38 PM   #100 (permalink)
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Location: St. Louis, MO
If you really detest the idea of wages, start your own business. Owning a business and massaging the stock market are just about the only two ways to make your own living in this world if you don't want to get paid by a business owner, a welfare officer, or your parents. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate. People pay for legal service but they pay for lawn care too. The lady that cleans my parents' house brings in a couple thousand dollars a month just hopping from client to client, and I think she's doing just fine not having seen a paycheck in however many years she's been doing it. She's got way more would-be customers than she can accept, and they're paying top dollar to have her wash their towels.

Of course, she shows up every time she's scheduled to. And she works until the job is done. And she does the job well. And I suspect that there was a tougher time at the beginning of her venture when she didn't have enough customers to clean two houses a weekday, rotating through them every two weeks. These customers were probably unwiling to pay her more than they would anyone else who walked off the street until they saw how hard she worked, too.

She's tried to hire some help and expand her customer base a bit but, wouldn't you know it, it's tough to find people who do a thorough job even when they don't feel like it or realize that the world will go on if they call in "sick". Many of us would probably be more in our "ideal states" if we only went to work 75% of the time, but that probably sounds laughable to the people that busted their butts to start up the businesses that hire the rest of us.

I heartily agree that even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. Yet, if you think you're too good for your job, you'd better prove it by finding or creating a better one.
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