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Rabu, 27 Januari 2010

Corporate Slave: A Modern-day Forced Labor?


Understanding the totality of Work 

A few months ago, the words slave or slave to corporate companies, came to me again. These words spoken by my nephew, which at that time I asked about her plans to spend time at the end of that week. The answer he was "well ... can not go everywhere, to the office, no work to be done, ordinary corporate slaves .... ....", the answer is actually joked a lot of meaning. My nephew said it, not because he's unpreparedness to deliver the best on the job and duty, but an expression that, as an office clerk, he had a responsibility to complete her task, and that, if necessary, should he do when holiday weekend though, because forced or no command. He likens himself like a corporate slave ...

It was a tradition of this earth, when we have reached a certain age and with a certain degree, the time has come for us to look for jobs at the company. Of course, usually the company or government agency that is best targeted by each of us to make a living and get the best career. But tradition or custom work for a company, or an employee of a company, not necessarily the best for each of us, this also applies to the tradition or other common habit in society in everyday life. It could be an employee of a company, where we will serve the enterprise is the biggest mistake we did. Because possible for each of us, there are still other ways to improve our lives by getting a living by not being an employee of the company.

This paper does not intend to discredit the people who become company employees, but just sharing that wherever we work, we must give our totality, but we must also accept the results of our totality of the wage in terms of broad, the equivalent, which provide total satisfaction within ourselves. Especially in our self-development.

It's very rooted in the lives of most of mankind, that being an employee of a company is the safest action for a living and to ensure and support the continuation of life. But is this true? Are we positioned ourselves at any time, with or without realizing it, with or without cause, at the ready position for the termination by the company, is the most secure in our lives for a living and support our lives?

Of course the answer lies in ourselves, how we work, discipline and so is the best guarantee that we have when working in a company. But obviously it was not guarantee 100% that an employee is the only way to make a living and live our lives. You will be guaranteed if you are in full control, and an employee is a person who is controlled, in this case by the company.

Being a corporate employee is a process of barter between the time that we give of energy and thoughts with wages that we receive from the company. These wages can be salary, health benefits, transportation allowance or a car, house and so on. So we will receive a reward when we give our energy and thoughts on the company. What if we're not giving our energy and thoughts on the company, such as vacations, family gatherings or even sleep? Does the moments that we should not or can not get a wage? Do we have to get a wage when we work alone? What do we do with energy and thoughts outside of work hours should not be rewarded? Perhaps your answer is fine, it is called odd job. But there will be a give input that do things like that will not give us the totality of the company, may arise "conflict of interest" and so on. So if the barter that occurs as we give our time and thoughts of power and in return we give, we receive a reward from the company's best barter? What about the other time in our lives?

Is there another way?

Of course there is, and the most important thing is, make the "time" that we have in life into something that has "value".

We must create a system to "time" we give "value" is more to others and this should be rolled continuously, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. We must also create passive income or passive income from the time in our lives. This can be anything, such as building a company, building sites and blogs, or others. What is important is that what was done, since the beginning, will always to our revenue stream, whether it was we handle directly or indirectly.

There is also the opinion that by working at a company, we will gain a life. But keep in mind that the experience we have in our work as an employee of a company is the experience of working in our work environment itself. Meanwhile, life experiences, we always get either an employee of our company or not. And work experience that we get at a company where we work, is usually limited and is always a rehash with spices accompanied modifications here and there. And could be without us knowing it, we become a person who is in a cage that can freely move about.

Back to my niece early this writing, I had asked him
"Are you really enjoy or enjoy the job, whether that's what you want, you should ask yourself the deepest in to be the correct answer. Forget tradition and try to see the other perspective ". This I ask, because without a conscious, though in a joking, he had declared himself as a corporate slave ......

Two weeks later, my niece told me that, after reflection and deep thought, he decided to quit his job. Of course this makes me surprised for a moment. But according to him, his parents were very supportive of what to do. Wise old man.
And he admitted that so far, in fact he was not happy and did not enjoy the job. As a young age, he will try to reflect himself, what to do next. He thought that the possibility to go to college at a higher level, perhaps the best alternative right now for him.

Of course, as my uncle, after a startled moment, I felt proud of my nephew. He is still young it was discovered that he had to get wages according to what he did, and with no clear he enjoys his work did not get the appropriate response. It could be that of "material" or anything else. Obviously he did not enjoy.

What will the rest of my nephew, is the right of his own. He has full freedom to carry on his life experiences.

Does it go back to school, working for companies or maybe he's ready for:

    * Not going back to his boss saying "sorry sir", although the error lies in the work itself superior foolishness.
    * No more begging for a salary increase on the company and are ready to target any "salary" that wants to receive, and act only with permission himself.
    * No longer willing to accept rules that are sometimes irrational, and work more freely
    * Be happy without being employees and establish their own business.

All the answers were of course on my own niece. Only he who knows what is best for him, to be a corporate slave or not ...

The important thing he must do the totality of what he was doing, and enjoying the totality of which he has given.

Are you ready to ask yourself?

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