Most of the time I hear advice that a regular 9 to 5 job or other schedule of being an employee is making us a slave or at least depreving us from our time by keep us busy enough to not be able to do anything else. But what are other options that allow both enough time to spend on a personal life and make a good living? Most of the time, owning a business eats more time than being an employee. This is maybe a discussion about work life balance, or even being with or against the anti work movement.
I also refuse the idea that tells me to be absolutely frugal. Yes, I live bellow my means, but I also spen d money on my hobbies and what brings joy and meaning to my life. I also save up some money for investment but investing is the hard part when our stock market is too small.
The question is serious. What are the other options or other insight in the situation and its alternatives.
Question is open ended and you can add in more point of views.
I see the issue as being that the majority of the workforce can’t find a job like the one you describe. Someone has to work in restaurants, someone has to be the helper, the janitor, the maid, etc. and the jobs, especially in IT at this point, that you describe are few, far between, and take years of training as well as connections and ALOT of luck to get into.
I appreciate this sentiment, but it’s an increasingly unrealistic goal for the majority of people in the west but especially in the US nowadays.
I didn’t find this job, really. It found me. I never sought an IT job and I figured they were mostly shit.
Getting lucky this way is the culmination of 20 years of making myself open to seize opportunities as they arose and occasionally sacrificing things. I came from a broke family that didn’t financially support me at all. I worked those shitty jobs, I went to college, I joined the military to pay off college debt and get a transferrable skill, I stayed in a bit longer for more education benefits, I used these to get a better certification in my field, I worked night shift for years and became a lab supervisor, and eventually an opportunity for IT presented itself, so I changed careers.
It did take years of training, some college, and sacrificing quite a bit. Multiple times I uprooted all my shit and bounced. Leaving family behind, making entirely new friends, it’s not easy. But if my nerdy, socially anxious, autistic ass can do it, many others can too.
Yes, luck plays a huge factor. Those lucky chances aren’t going to present themselves without effort though. Sure you might work hard and never get lucky, but I’d take that chance.