Now that we are entering into Fall, and with the purpose
of making 5 Million Euros in less than 5 years, we have to focus on the idea of
making ourselves valuable in many different ways, making new connections and
developing new ideas, therefore this guest blog is related to our main subject.
Written by Larry Klein he contacted me
and proposed the paradigm of why people should not look for a job anymore.
Larry is a personal finance blogger, member of Yakezie challenge, CPA (inactive), retired financial advisor and Harvard MB.I hope you enjoy this reading as much as I did.
Looking
for a job has been unproductive for you and for good reason. I have written on this issue a number of
times on my own blog and here are yet more reasons why looking for a job is an
activity
left over from the last century and won’t be productive this year, next year or
in 10 years.
1.
You are one of 300 resumes for one open position. The odds are way against you so why waste
your time. You are likely someone that
also buys lottery tickets figuring that
someone has got to win. Good luck to
you.
2.
A robot will likely replace your job or has already done so. If you don’t watch Sixty Minutes, youshould. A recent episode explains how so many jobs
have already been replaced by robots and
way
more to come. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57601121/are-robotshurting-
job-growth.
People who are unskilled are now also
unneeded. Sorry, but if you could not
figure out
why you had to learn geometry on ninth grade (it was to learn how to think) and
now youhave
no skills and no ability to think and need a job where someone shows you what
to do, you
are
out of luck.
3.
Looking for a job is backwards. You are
trying to find someone who needs a worker and thenyou
will fit yourself to the position. That
is backwards. The way to make money is
to figure out
what
people value, what they will happily pay for and then learn how to provide
it.That is called
making yourself of value. Note that
learning something does not necessarily mean going
to
school. Some of the most successful
people are self-taught.
4.
You place yourself in a continuous
position of dependence. If the job
disappears or the company
goes out of business, you are back in the same place.Don’t
look for a job—figure out how
to earn income that is independent of some company or someone giving you
anything. Make
yourself valuable so that people want what you offer. I pay the woman who
cleans my house
$160 for 5 hours of work. She has worked
for us for 30 years and I hate to think she might
ever retire. She has no education,
speaks only some English but is valuable.
5.
Looking for a job is just laziness.Up
until the year 1900 or so, there were no jobs.
People farmed
their land, learned a trade or took up a profession. These people sold their talents and skills
to other people in town. Looking for a job is finding someone who has already
done the hard
work or creating excess work so that you can simply show up and get paid.The good times are over there is no excess
work.
A
few months ago, I saw an interview on CNBC with Jack Welch, the ex-chairman of
General Electric. He said that one of
GEs business was hurt so badly in the recession, that its revenues would not
recover until 2014. However, that
division would achieve its pre-recession revenues with 14,000 people instead of
the 23,000 employed pre-recession. The
point—if you are just "labor," this economy has little need for
that. What the economy needs is skills,
talent, ability to innovate, leaders who motivate, create and move an idea from
inception to fruition.
Fast
food workers can strike all they want but the reality is, none of the above is
required to work in fast food service.
Reality is just that, like it or not, fair or not. You can piss and moan or use this post as a description
of the new reality our reality so go out there and make yourself valuable.
Larry
Klein is publisher of the Wealthy Producer Blog, is among the 1% and has not has not
had a job in 33 years. Fire and Passion that is all we need Enjoy!
