Top-10 Reasons Why You Should

Never Work at a Real Job

Lord Boyd-Orr once said, “If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.”

If you are one of those mundane people who would select sandwiches over personal freedom, working at a dream career or unreal job is definitely not for you.

On the other hand, if you don't ever want to be trapped in the corporate world as the majority is, then the key is to never work at a real job. You should create an unreal job in the areas of Writing and Publishing or in Internet Marketing.

Here are the top-10 reasons why you should never work at a real job:

1. According to the famous Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, and zoologist Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."

2. The following quote appeared on a business card given to me years ago. I have idea who wrote this, but it is one of my favorite quotes of all time. It gives one of the best reasons for not having a real job given that the majority of people aspire to having real jobs: If you follow the crowd, you will likely get no further than the crowd. If you walk alone, you're likely to end up in places no one has ever been before. Being an achiever is not without its difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. The unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they'll simply say it was obvious to everyone all along. You have two choices in life. You can dissolve into the main stream, or you can choose to become an achiever and be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no else but you can be. 

3. The problem with most real jobs is that they appeal to people who shy away from taking risks because they want to be comfortable. Comfort is for wimps. As Peter Mayle declared: I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's."

4. The majority of real jobs are boring, boring, boring. "You are what you do," according to Bob Black. "If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous."

5. Most real jobs will offer no opportunity for you to shine and make a name for yourself based on your creativity and your uniqueness. As Marilyn Monroe said, "We are all of us stars and we all deserve to twinkle."

6. We all want to make a big difference in this world and the chances of this happening in a corporation are low: As Tom Peters says, "Unless you are willing to walk out into the unknown, the chances of making a profound difference in your life are pretty slim."

7. Instead of offering freedom, corporate work is a form of imprisonment. In this vein, Christopher Morley offers some important advice: "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

8. Making a living at an unreal or dream career in many ways is actually easier than working at a real job. In The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferris points out: "The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits."

9. The majority believe that having a corporate job provides security. This is false. True security has nothing to do with having a real job. As Bo Bennett clearly points out: "We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources."

10. When you work at a dream career or at a unreal job, you can be both at work and not at work simultaneously. As H. Jackson Brown, Jr pointed out, "Find a job that you like and you add five days to every week." 

See this great article by Steve Pavlina called 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job 

More Inspirational Quotes (Besides Quotes about Writing and Publishing) to Support the Premise That You Should Never Work at a Real Job

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
- Rita Mae Brown

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.
- from The Lazy Person's Guide to Success

Find a calling you love and you will never work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea.  There’s only one problem with it.  It’s stupid!  It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.
- Steve Pavlina

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Thoreau

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would astound ourselves.
- Thomas A. Edison 

Earn Your Career Karma Points by Reading and Following the Principles Advocated in: 

  Career Success Without a Real Job

10 Tell-Tale Signs That You Need to Read

  The Career Book For People Too Smart to Work in Corporations

1. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if the charm of working for a corporation is that it makes a life of deception more easily concealed.

2. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you are obstinately and zealously attached to the same boring opinions as your co-workers are.

3. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you believe that the best workplace committee consists of 3 people with 2 of them absent.

4. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if your company handsomely rewards mediocrity of the highest order.

5. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if youthink that your company uses dullness as the first requisite for being promoted to management.

6. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if the Suggestion Box at your workplace is used to lure good ideas so that they can be strangled.

7. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you seriously think that your beliefs are the culmination of 2,500 years of Western philosophy.

8. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if at your workplace, the more ridiculous and destructive the ideas, the higher the probability that they will be adopted.

9. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if you have noticed that corporate Annual Reports are the most respectable forms of lying.

10. You just may have to read Career Success Without a Real Job if at your workplace, like in most corporations, the psychopathic elements rise to the top.

Earn Your Career Karma Points by:

Purchasing Career Success Without a Real Job

The following links will take you directly to the order page for Career Success Without a Real Job:

 

COPYRIGHT © 2010 by Ernie J. Zelinski 
 Author of the World's Best Retirement Book
A Great Business Promotional Giveaway
All Rights Reserved