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Gig work is the closest I've come to escaping wage slavery. I can work when I want, I earn more money based on my efforts alone if I choose to do more assignments in a day, rather than make the same hourly wage no matter how fast or slow I worked. If I don't feel like working 1 day or need to stop earlier than I planned, I just turn off the apps. I don't have to grovel to a boss asking if I can leave early or feel guilty because I had to call in sick.
I had a huge burnout back in 2015 and quit EVERYTHING to go travelling. I thought I'd get it all out of my system and then come back and go back to work (my boss even offered to keep my job open for me). But what happened as I spent 7 months travelling is that I suddenly owned 100% of my time, I had full agency for the first time in my life, and once I experienced that unplugging from the matrix I REALLY didn't want to plug back in. I did manage to turn my side-hustle into a sustainable freelance job and I make more than any salaried job I ever had by working less up to the present. Thank heavens for that burnout! It did strike me how most people go through their entire pre-retirement life having NEVER really owned their time.
Interesting… I’ve Done the same repeated times but always end up back as a wageslave… Even though my own father is a extremely successful entrepreneur his whole life and even now as a 67 year old, I would argue that he works way more for the same penny as most wage slaves here in Sweden. So he’s even more of a slave but people look up to him as an extremely good entrepreneur and people like to fantasize about the good life… They mostly see the lavish business trips etc he goes too but not the grueling work he puts in day in and day out. So now at 33 I actually want to be a wage slave for the rest of my life and live comfortably and have more time for the people in my life and also hobbies. This is the Swedish system and I think it’s kind of nuts to be an entrepreneur in our economy
I'm also 33 and experiencing this life implosion. I can't do it any more. It's driving me insane. Everything is suffering because of it. Monday I tell the boss, he's a good man and I work for a small construction company but the system is wrong and I won't be a part of it no more. I'll report back in a couple of years and tell you how it was the best thing I ever did. I can't wait for that time. I'm tired of living in this valley, Jesus please find me a new mountain top!!!!! God bless you all!!!
When you do the same work as a contractor you get to take home what would have been the profit margin of the company… so you can work less hours for the same pay or as I’ve found get paid much more. So you can choose how much you work in that season… rn I’m recovering from EBV from burnout from my previous job, so I only have one client and work 1 day a week for them. It gives you options to give yourself health leave and vacation, to take care of yourself.
@@christinaferrero9508 Today's the day I accepted a new job! My how things can turn around in just a month when you put all your heart, mind and soul into the Lord! Praise God in the highest!!! God is so good! God bless you all!!! ❤️🙏🏼
As I am into music production (self taught). Now I am doing DJing. I did my research and plan/stategies. And the most important thing - love. Follow your passion and do what you love to do. I paid for a Dj courses school practice room for an hour where I could practice. After getting confident I recorded video of my 1 hr set. Then used it to promote myself by sending emails to different night clubs and got offered to play in many places
asking is a great gig especially for weddings. I play in a band and while we regularly get paid $50+ an hour a piece for a show, weddings we’ve gotten paid so much more. I’ve seen DJs make A LOT.
It’s always easier said than done. I know entrepreneurs who started businesses but you know what? They always have somebody else paying the bills. I think it’s called a spouse who works for corporate. So that enables these entrepreneurs to dabble in their businesses. A one man, one woman company? This can take years to develop, and there are a lot of hurdles, especially with technology. I really resent how these gurus try to present this as something that is easy to attain. I’ve been trying to get my business off the ground for two years now. You need to be extremely disciplined and frugal. You also need to remove people from your life who waste your time.
Its very difficult. I realize that. And personally I feel to old to do it, especially since I really don't see it. I cover this topic a bit more in my latest video "if you are to stupid to escape wage slavery". Thats why I put my hope into investing. But I think you can start a business with a patience in mind. Like baby steps. not 100% (of course not all business ideas work like this). But I hope you manage to get your business where you want it to go.
@pondurosa3792 An AI assistant can do all the managerial work that makes small business ownership so difficult. Small-scale practitioners can focus on their craft, making the expert-system do their marketing, scheduling, accounting, invoicing, collections and regulatory compliance.
I just turned 40. I’m thinking of going out on my own as a contractor, doing what I do now but as my own business. Its scary though. I’ve spent 15 years becoming quite expert at what I do, in a niche area of business. I’m head hunted often. But my salary is nice and I’m very comfortable. There’s a very innate urge to stick with what you know! It’s hard to take that leap even though financially it would be a lot more profitable going out on my own.
Did you take the leap yet Banjo? I pray that you have. You know it will be the best thing you'll ever do. You have the knowledge and the skill and the expertise and the clients. Don't be afraid my friend, you will succeed!!! God bless!!!
I see God sent you when I needed you most. Thank you so much for these videos, unbelievable source of inner strength for me right now. God bless you Tom
Sometimes, you don't even have to grow a new business. Depending on your profession, you can go freelance and be independent as a consultant. I did this 15 years ago, one of the best decisions in my life.
Yah I was paid $25 an hour to be a lawyer and do marketing and lobbying etc. and I’m paid $30 an hour just to do some laid back marketing for a small biz. Sure the org gave me some benefits but for the stress of it, they squeezed me for labor without fair pay for all the hats I was wearing. I did learn a lot and I’m glad I no longer work there!
I worked out how much subcontractor work I needed to survive to get out of working in horrid companies with no scruples. I realised I could work for half the time and earn the same so made the jump with a few grand tucked away just in case. Twenty years later, still going and growing. One of the issues though is when you get more clients you need to manage your time as say no more often, otherwise you end up working even more than as an employed person. Most people wont take the jump though, as its easier and less risky to just moan about your situation.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. And good on you for making that jump all those years ago. I'm about to do the same myself at age 33. God bless you.
You are right and thanks for this vid.:) As an Aspie lady, we have it incredibly hard in classic corporate jobs LOL. I have never been into a classic job where I wouldnt meet some kind of mistreatment either from colleagues, bosses or clients or even worse, from all. Those who are not mistreated the same way, often dont believe me and they say things like "You must have some fault in you to bring such harassment upon yourself." Well, eff that. People are simply mostly horrible nowadays, many toxic folks out there. And they hate those who are different. So that being said for people like me, starting a one man/woman company would be ideal. However, since I still live in the near vicinity of my toxic family, for me its hard to do.....I guess I must strive to move far away from them in order to start my one person business. I know they would sabotage my success and they would try to interfere with the way I would want to lead my business. So sadly as for now I am forced to search out classical jobs and that really sucks. But hopefully in the close future, I would be able to be my own boss with my little business.
I'm a one-man business. I'm struggling with no one to help or lean on. It's pretty rough right now. If you don't have a specific skills to leverage that people want to pay for - stay employed.
Many thanks for your channel and perspective....I thought that I was the only one who knew about this type of activity....kudos to you for doing what you're doing!!
thank you. Well Ive made a lot of videos on different topics, but this topic seems to really resonate with people. It feels like I stumbled onto something.
I’m getting closer to starting my own indie game studio every day. Just finishing up a current project that I’ve used to learn programming and I should be getting the ball rolling soon.
@@TomScryleus I don’t have anything yet because I’m finishing my first project currently. I am using this little game to learn the entire development process and figure out steam/marketing. Once I get through this project is when I feel like I will be experienced enough to start the company 😁👍 I’ll come back and comment once I start it! It shouldn’t be more than a few months from now. My current project is called “NugQuest” though if you are curious to see what I made just to learn haha.
OK. I simply cannot quit my actual job to work by myself. I have a small child that demands a lot and I don't have free time to work in a side project on weekends. If I had a few hours a week, I don't know what to create, how to create something I could earn some money. What I enjoy is to be a musician, but I don't like to teach, I don't like to be a RU-vidr (and don't have time to be a one). I'm lost.
Thx for the validation I was just forced to retire do to repeadative injuries but i ran a cleaning company for 25yrs. Rather than chasing contracts i provided quality services to the wealthier people therefore i was home for my family when i wanted, needed because i was able to make more money with less effort and i treated and was treated like a friend by my custmers
I value flexibility and self-empowerment and that’s what working for yourself gives you! I write novels (crescent crown saga), play music in a band (frailin’ hearts), and do some nonprofit/small biz marketing consulting (Prairie Phoenix Consulting). I sell insurance part time for a company on the weekend (I started as a contractor and then they made us employees but still treat us the same basically… I don’t really have a boss tho. I pick up gigs when I want to and pitch the insurance for $100 base plus sales commission. It’s easy and I ignore all the company drama).
Here me out. If a movement could come about in a community who leave their jobs and then join this community who meet and help each other with ideas, financial help, food, and if we can create a community of help with in a community. We would have something.
I once had my own business in Alternative Healthcare. I might have been able to help some people but continuing education would consume all my time and effort as the competition in the field is beyond stampede. Now they are creating AI robots. The real value of humanity is subdued. A truly sad state of affairs for humanity.
I want a small business with a few employees like 5 or so as I think I can scale it up more and I would have more trust in employees then contractors, plus I like the idea of providing jobs that are not garbage like so many are. A small business of that size would still have a soul.
I really enjoyed this video. I actually have a copy of that book, a company of one. I haven't read it yet though. I am a new subscriber. I'm child free and I owner occupy a rental duplex where I live in one side and rent the other out. I've been doing a number of side businesses for years. My end goal is to be fully self-employed the paid off home. Having a nice amount of rental and dividend income. I think it's all doable. Thanks for making this video.
Maybe do a video on how people play by false rules. I will do a video about that in the future. There is this issue that I have. I imagine many others do too. The issue is this. The idea that one can make a living without absolutely hating their life, seems improper. The architects of our current society have quantumly entangled being able to pay the rent with misery, with sustaining life (money for food) with no longer wanting to live. It seems an impossibility to make a good living and not want to drown yourself everyday. I know that’s false, but it’s so deeply implanted in my psyche it’s proving difficult to extricate myself from that particular psychological prison. I bet most people have this problem. Thx!
The key is to be incredibly talented and work as less as possible for as much as possible. Floyd Maywether, Manny Pacqiao. One boxing fight per year £500,000,000. No education certificates.Way more then any lawyer, accountant , investment banker with their Ivy League education and 120 hour weeks.
Yes, and only two people out of 8 billion got that job. Be more realistic. Becoming a star athlete is very nearly impossible for everyone but a very thin slice of humanity.
Doing what you like on your free time as a full-time vocation degrades the passion until it no longer exists. Owning your own business for sustenance makes you a wage slave to your clients. There is no "gateway to abundance and freedom" because maintaining abundance is constant toil and freedom is you taking a walk or a break whenever you want to. Your ego will want to rage against this truth being stated because as a child you were told that breaking your back in the name of productivity is virtuous, and what you learn as a child is difficult to unlearn as an adult. The people who sold you that bridge would make an 8 year old work in a coal mine without safety precautions or adequate pay while they eat lobster. Freedom means setting boundaries that work for you and sticking to them no matter the consequences. Being free isn't always profitable. Entrepreneurship is not freedom.
@@TomScryleus The stress of being poor impacts a person's cognitive resources. Musk never had that stress. Sure he has other stresses but I doubt he has ever been concerned about where his next meal was coming from. This leaves more cognitive resources available to make better decisions and learn new things. He also has enough money at this point he can be absolutely reckless. It almost doesn't matter what he does now.
Yea there are pros and cons to being business owner. You can’t escape not working. In nature if I’m dumped you on island right now (even with a million dollars in your bank account - you will be forced to build shelter, hunt, fish or trap your food. Money is just a tool that’s all it is. It can’t give you the body you want, the bachelors degree you want, the relationship or girl you want, the business/social connections you want. This all requires effort and labour. The idea me sitting at home playing video games on my smartphone with million dollars in my bank account is somehow going to give me all these things. It’s a complete fantasy.
Great video, thank you. I heard before that it's important to have a personal brand. However, I would like to know what you think about this... Not all people want you to succeed, and especially when starting out, when you make it known that you are behind a certain brand or service, does it not open you up to issues? People may want to throw stones in your way, sue you, etc, which can lead to huge expenses, which may be problematic, especially in the beginning. Maybe one should move in silence until a certain degree of success has been achieved?
I’ve just enslaved myself by going permanent after 30 years of contracting. Also uk gov brought in ir35 so more tax and less control and money. Contract market in uk is terrible now so went perm for a third of the money.
I will keep my family together. Everyone will work towards good living, no debt and loading up SP500 index funds. Within a generation nobody will need to work anymore. My plan needs 30 years for a family to stick together and have a great life under the same roof. And yes, the children will stay with me for free. Everyone work a little, then off to home for the best cuisine, board game tournaments, sports and movies on TV, have friends come over, etc. Life is great and in the end we will all end up rich (mostly the children, because I might be dead by then, 22 more years to go). People sending their kids away for a "career" are victims to the corporate meat mincer. Cheers!
Ah, the myth of the supposedly "hard-working" billionaires. Anyone who actually believes that Musk works 14 hours a day still believes in the Easter bunny.
Awesome. What you say agrees with my thoughts exactly. Im on disability now though. I got a business I could start immediately with almost zero investment, low cost materials. Requires skilled work on my part, and selling on Etsy and such. I only have to do work if I get orders. I create unique and powerfully useful products. I have several which I am certain are the best of their kind in the world. I shoulda done this two years ago. Just charge a shitton for my new paradigm. Wouldn't have to deal with too many people. Yeah, there's all kinds of shit I need git going.
From an historical and evolutionary perspective, life that does not reproduce is generally considered to have "failed." Is this the wisest course of action?
In my experience, having kids makes you strive for more. I have 4 sons and started my own carpentry business 3 years ago. My wife is a stay at home mom. They are currently on a vacation to Disney and I'm taking a friend on a hunting trip in the Adirondacks while they're gone. I would have never been able to do that without starting my own company and I wouldn't trade being a dad for anything.
