Men of Reddit, how do you deal with the fact that after college, you basically just work until you die?
part time job was quite exhausting. It still felt like a lot of work and I wasn’t
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part time job was quite exhausting. It still felt like a lot of work and I wasn’t getting my own projects done. I began thinking about the ‘ideal part time job’. What exactly do I want from one? What shifts do I want to work? Working 5 hour shifts 5 days a week is fucking stupid. I wanted to do long ass shifts but less often so that I would be going to my job less days of the week and with that, saving hours from not needing to get ready, commute etc. I also wanted a part time role that simply felt like a lot less work. I wanted one with downtime. That’s exactly what I got. I applied for more positions. I got invited for an interview for a job that is similar to security. The role entailed sitting in a locked room with CCTV and buzzing in people through the door. Fucking easy. I asked the interviewer straight up if I could bring my laptop to do my work during the shift. They didn’t give a fuck as long as I was there to buzz the people in. Goldmine. So in the space of 1 week I went from my last shift at a full time job, a couple days at a part time job that did not fit for me and finally a part time job that was perfect, where I was literally getting paid a wage to sit there and work on my own things. This one week period was very, very stressful. But extremely worth it. I have wrote all this for you to understand the importance of the right part time job for you. Do not settle. Do not place your employers needs above your own. Ever. If you find a better job go full speed ahead. Imagine if I was too scared of the risk of leaving my full time job? Or if I felt too stressed to leave the first part time job within just days of working there? I would still be there and likely not have had the same time and effort to grow my projects. That would have been placing the employer’s feelings above mine. Fuck that. So, what is the ideal part time job for you? Journal it. Write down what factors you want. For me the biggest thing was wanting longer shifts so that I would be going to the job less often and saving time, and also potentially having downtime so that I could do my own work. I journaled these. I searched for them. I found the job. If you don’t outline exactly what you want you will likely end up some place else. Great part time jobs for developing online projects (in my opinion) include security, receptionist/concierge, hotel staff, admin assistants. Its hard to say because its not so much the type of role that is important here. You could have a security job that could be a lot of work and potentially dangerous. The correct way to find the ideal part time job is to go to every interview and check out the vibe. Does the interviewer seem laid back and doesn’t really give a shit? This is what I would want. Do they look like some kind of busy body who would be ensuring maximum effort from you? Leave immediately. Remember the purpose of why you are searching for these jobs. Refer back to your journal. To keep your chances of getting the part time job as high as possible you of course don’t want to fully disclose the exact requirements you want. No manager wants to hear that you want a job specifically because its easy or that it has downtime. You still have to play up to them in the correct way to ensure you get the position. And then start working on the projects during work time. What’s good about these part time jobs is that they are so easily replaceable. If your manager makes it clear you are not allowed to work on your projects on shift, leave. Seriously. These jobs are so damn easy to get you can keep hopping until you find the right one. You might wonder how to get interviews and interest so easily. Lie. Lie on your CV and add at least a few months of relevant experience. They will never check it. And if they do, it doesn’t matter because you can just block their number and move on to the next part time job that interests you. A great example of this was one of my friends. He sent out so many applications for basic part time jobs during our first year of university and barely ever got interviews. I was sure that once he got a couple of interviews booked, he would secure a job because I would teach him how to ace the interviews like I always do. But the poor guy barely ever got any contact apart from annoying recruiters trying to add him to their candidate list. So we changed up his CV. Added 5 months of waiter experience for when he was applying to restaurant jobs. Added 3 months of café assistant work. He sent out more applications, received contact and booked 2 interviews for the same week. Went to the first interview and got offered the job there and then. He likely would not have even gotten the interview if it wasn’t for us lying on the CV. His employer would never know nor would they actually care as all they want is a member of staff who can actually do the work. #7 Online projects start bringing in income, reduce part time hours further (I am currently on 16 hours a week) Congratulations. You have started to bring in a bit of income from your projects. You might get really excited to spend it on shit but remember what we said about lifestyle inflation? Don’t be a consumer. In fact, its your money, spend it on whatever the fuck you want to. Step 7 assumes you want to use the additional online income properly and not just spend it on shit but it is really your choice. I would advise you to reduce your part time hours even further and make up the loss of earnings through your online income. This results in you having even more time and effort to put into developing your online projects and also having so much free time that you can even start new ones. If you can reduce your job hours to just 16 a week you pretty much feel like you don’t even have a job, just somewhere you go a couple times a week with your entire focus on your creations. Your health will undeniably improve. You and I both know for a fact that if you only worked 16 hours a week you would be exercising more, sleeping better, probably eating better. Your stress from juggling a job and your own projects would decrease. You would have more time for family and relationships and even more time for recreational fun. The great thing about Step 7 is that by reducing your job hours further you get more time and energy for literally everything. Go and smoke weed once a week, guilt free. You’ve earnt it. Enjoy that day of smashing out video games with your friends, you can finally afford to spend the time to enjoy these activities because you are actually achieving something. You might even find yourself arguing against these recreational activities because they might seem unnecessary. You no longer have to recover from a full time job and so the need for substances to alter reality drops. This is a great time to find some new hobbies that you enjoy. Its funny how the things most important to us only come having curing ourselves of the full time job virus. At this point you should have a secure part time job which has extra benefits, working as low hours as possible for your wage + online income to cover expenses. You will likely stay working at this job for a while even whilst your online income grows as consistent income is a blessing due to the stress reduction effect that comes with it. #8 Online projects get some popularity At this point you are likely working a job less than 20 hours a week and have a pretty good work-life balance, new hobbies, more time for family, relationships, relaxing, waking up without an alarm clock. Life is pretty god damn great. Keep at it. You are responsible for your own actions. Do not stray from the success you have built. Do not increase spending. Keep at it. Step 8 occurs due to consistent work and luck. There I said it. It involves luck. You might think you are unlucky. You are incorrect. Luck is simply a % of something occurring. Here’s the thing. The more time you spend doing something, the more that % grows. Let’s give you some practical examples so you can fully grasp it. To make it easy to understand we will assume the chance to get viral is 0.1% That means if you release one of your creations online, for example a music video, you have 1 in a 1000 chance of getting viral. So… create 100 music videos and you have a 10% chance of getting viral. 500 music videos for a 50/50 chance of one of them popping off and you getting famous. See how this works? Of course, the actual % chance to become viral is likely to be much lower than 0.1% however the same concept can be applied. A great thing about this math is that we are only talking about the chance to get viral and become internet famous. What I haven’t mentioned yet is that this act of increasing your % chance of getting viral also sets you up to do consistent quality work and therefore increasing your popularity and audience size overtime. With every creation you release online, you increase your chance to get viral and retire as well as slowly increasing library of released online projects which entails a consistent increase in your follower count and income. In Step 8 you should be working towards having a massive amount of creations online. Each creation you upload to the internet is another doorway for users to purchase your product, watch your video, read your book. Keep releasing more and more. With each new creation you will be developing your skills, creating better and better content. I heard something interesting a while ago that suites this step. It was some kind of study on the quality of work between 2 groups. One group was asked to make one video (I don’t remember if it was videos but the example works) of the absolute best quality they could make. The second group were asked to create as many videos as they could make. Essentially comparing quality vs quantity. The second group not only made a huge collection of videos but their latest creations were better quality than the one video the first group made. This is due to humans learning effectively through iteration. We replicate behaviours extremely quickly. Once you have learnt the process of something, you can generally do the same thing much, much faster. With each new video the second group were learning new things. This example works perfect because on the internet quantity is so much more important than quality. So much quality content is forgotten or never even viewed due to the nature of social media. But, if you have hundreds of videos online, chances are at least a couple of them would have much more success. Just to make this clear, I am literally saying QUANTITY is more important than quality in the case for online projects. You should be aiming for a large number of creations released and with the act of repeating the process many times you will learn new things and streamline a process that works efficiently for you. #9 Leave the part time job and focus all efforts on online projects And there we go. From a full time wage slave to officially becoming whatever you set out to do. At this point you are a writer, content creator, motivator, whatever your project is. You no longer trade time for money and instead create things for the population to view and pay you for. When your online project income starts consistently bringing an amount you can rely on, for example, if your expenses are £1500 a month, quit your part time job when you are bringing in £1500 a month consistently online. Or… Take a bigger risk and get to this step much quicker. Instead of working and waiting until you get to the £1500 a month from online income, invoke lifestyle deflation by leaving your job early before you reach this point. That way you will be forced to lower your expenses to what money you have available and with that, be fully self employed. You will have 100% of your time for your online projects. This is what I did to reduce my hours. I did not wait for my projects to be bringing an income similar to my employment wage because quite frankly that could take years. So I instantly reduced my hours and with that reduced my wage to just £570 a month and just ‘made it work’. I was then able to spend so much more time on my projects than if I played safe and continued working a job. Chapter 3 Still unconvinced? For those who may feel hesitant to commit to a journey like this, I assume it is due to the risk involved. How will you manage? Remember the main symptom of the full time job virus is consumerism. This is due to the fact that when humans spend all their time and energy on someone else for a wage, they feel an immense urge to spend that money on things that negate the shittiness of their lives. Think about people in sales type jobs like recruitment who flash their expensive watches and cars and boast about how much they spent on their 1 week holiday to Ibiza. What you are seeing is lifestyle inflation. When you think about it like this it just seems so obvious. It is almost a guarantee that working and living undesirably for money means you will spend that money. Of course you would. Every fucker says they would invest or save more if they earnt more money but again, the statistics prove otherwise. You will not save or invest a significant amount more because you will spend more just like the rest of us brainwashed rats. This is why in a weird way, this journey actually has such minimal risk. When we substitute a flat wage for more time and effort into our own projects, lifestyle deflation instantly makes us spend less simply because we have less money to spend. That is a good thing. In case you need to hear this breaking news, money and things don’t make us happy. If you are childish enough to believe a certain amount of money or items would make you happy you are in for a depressing time, literally trading your life for money so that you can flash your new iPhone at your co-workers who don’t give a shit. You know what makes humans happy? Freedom. Power to control our own lives. Money = Freedom Money = Power Do not trade your freedom and power in this world to be a consumer. Here’s the thing. It’s so damn hard to not be a consumer. It’s all around us. To improve in this area, its very difficult. Would you actually say no to meeting a potential partner for a date because you don’t want to spend the £30 for the night? Would you skip a night out with old friends because alcohol and club entry are expensive? Honestly? No. Neither would I. You see its very hard, especially for social people, to reduce consumerism. Our lives revolve around making money and then spending that money. When we have money and opportunities to spend a small amount of it, we spend it. It almost seems pointless not to spend money on something like a social occasion because it requires quite a great deal of self-control and then we have to sit by ourselves like a loser, seeing everyone have fun without us, not feeling glad we have that £30 in our bank accounts. This is why lifestyle deflation is so damn important it’s surprising no one is talking about it. By leaving your full time job with a set wage, you instantly reduce your wage for potential future freedom and power to control your life. Because of the instantly reduced wage, we instantly spend less because we have less money to spend. Suddenly its not hard to say no to spending because we just don’t have the money for it. Experiencing this is like a detox. We get rid of that nasty shit in our lives and no longer have massive urges and forever contemplating to spend money on pointless shit. We simply don’t have the money to spend so we focus our efforts elsewhere, and that is when we become creative. You see when we actually have the money to spend and weekends to recover from work, it’s almost a requirement to get some kind of substance in our body to counteract how shitty the work week was and also because we fear Mondays. Substances cost money and likely take us away from other goals we had. Going through this journey might seem so much more risky than your full time job but is it actually? Are jobs not risky? Is there no chance at all for you to be fucked over and lose promotions, get sick and lose your wage, lose your job? Of course there is. Risk is all around us. What matters is what risk we choose to take. Pick someone around 40-50 years old who has been working since high school. Full time job after full time job. They have likely had moments of working two jobs at once too. Ask them how much they have in their bank accounts right now. They do not have anywhere close to £10,000 and I can guarantee you that. You know why? Because working full time is not a means to be able to save up. Due to experiencing lifestyle inflation with the full time wage, it is absolutely impossible to save up for long enough to actually accumulate a consistent level of wealth. You will spend it. Fact. As you move up the corporate ladder, so does your expenses. New position? New car. New job? New house. What a shame these people have worked for over 20 years straight putting in back breaking hours and all they have to show for it is under £1000 and the fact that they ‘got through’ the 20 years. What the fuck. What a shitty life. Grinding away just to… live? Living to work. Working to spend money so that they can continue living to work. A fucking mindfuck. Have respect for yourself and do not go down this route. Chapter 4 Quick Review Pick one of two choices: Choice 1: Continue working full time jobs till retirement. Often having stress due to losing jobs, not being able to afford the mortgage, not having enough money for little Sarah’s Christmas presents so you need to get a second job 2 days a week. Counteract long and brain numbing work weeks with substances and excess spending to negate the shittiness of your life with an annual trip to Spain or some shit being the height of your life. Do this until age 75. Survive. Choice 2: Plan your journey. Replace full time job for part time. Instantly have more time but less money. Make up the difference through online projects. Develop new skills and hobbies and good relations due to extra time. Spend a whole lot of time broke. Experience lifestyle deflation. Avoid consumerism. Improve health due to less stress. Focus on yourself. Create what you want. Slowly make money from your creations. Slowly drop your job hours. Eventually quit your part time job and commit to your projects full time. That is now your ‘job’ but you control the atmosphere. Wake up at whatever time you want. Work wherever you want. Create new projects. Thrive. Yüklə 297,05 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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