All employment descriptions in the classified advertisements are jobs. These are examples of the first way of making money-trading your time for money. You attend job, you spend your time and you get paid for your particular time.
All the employees and all self-employed persons fall into this category. If you have to be there to get paid-it’s job.
A job is a financial restraint. It limits how far you can earn. It most of the time bothers you for your future. To be frank, it might pay you about 25 percent of what you are really worth-probably less than that. Because your employer has to make money-a lot of money. This is possible when he or she pays you less than what he or she charges customers for what you produce.
People using this financial vehicle never have any time to do anything else, because they spend it all chasing money. For people with a job, time is money-literally. When you don’t put in the time, you don’t get any money. So, you work all the time, trying to get ahead, hoping that working longer and working harder will bring success.
No matter how hard you work. Working harder for more hours is not the answer. You’re on a treadmill, and it’s deadly stressful.
Tell me, if you worked twice as long-would you earn twice as much?
If you worked twice as hard-would you earn twice the income you get?
Could you work twice as hard or twice as many hours as you do now? It’s next to impossible!
Self-employed persons face the same challenge. It is a job if you have to be there. It’s a job if your income is limited by the amount of time that you can spend working. This is true for highly paid doctors and lawyers, too. If they don’t show up, they don’t get paid.
This first way of making money was not designed for your success. It’s for your employer. You generally work for someone else’s success.
A job takes your time and gives you money-not a living, just money, and less than you deserve-in return. Your productive time is your only real asset. Spending your time, selling your time for an income, you continually face the challenge of truly making a living.
Your time is limited. You have only 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week. And that’s the same amount everyone else has, too. So you do have time, but it’s limited; and when it’s gone, it’s gone for ever.
In the past, the only two ways to break through the income plateau were to make your time more valuable with more education, or with more experience-or both.
But today there is no correlation between college degrees and steadily increasing earnings. There is no connection between higher education and financial security.
A job is not the best way for creating the life and the security that you want. Trading time for money constricts your future.
