Comments on: Being an Employee Sucks Right Now

By: I Hate Employment

I Hate Employment — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:18:23 +0000

I never want to be an employee for the rest of my life and I don’t care how short this rest of my life must be nor how miserable I must be. I don’t care if I have to starve.

Right now, my supper is a half peanut butter can and powdered milk. I prefer that than to be an employee.

It’s not that I am lazy … yes I’m lazy but for deep and profound causes, I can work hard and give myself to the full of my potential.

What I hate about employment is subordination and the indignities of being an employee. Also job hunting is even worse. Never again will I swallow my pride and allow myself to be treated like a worthless underdog.

To job hunt makes me feel like a whore, a prostitute and given that I am a man of principles I refuse.

Therefore I will never again be an employee for the rest of my life. I am starving but I prefer that than being an employee.

By: Ron Dobsen

Ron Dobsen — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:38:58 +0000

A year and four months later after this blog was written and the job market seems even worse. We’ve bailed out the too-big-to-fails and now they’re getting rich again…why aren’t they paying us back?

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Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:35:06 +0000

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By: There’s No Replacement for Hard Work | Adam McFarland's Blog - Musings of a Balding 26 Year Old Entrepreneur

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:00:18 +0000

[...] entrepreneurship feels the same way and sees these down economic times as an opportunity. Since it sucks to be an employee, why not at least try starting a company? Hopefully enough people who otherwise would have been [...]

By: Job Security? | Adam McFarland's Blog - Musings of a Balding 26 Year Old Entrepreneur

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:46:03 +0000

[...] the topic of job security arises. Other than this post and the post I wrote a few weeks ago about how much it sucks to be an employee, I haven’t thought once about my job security. If I was still in my engineering position, [...]

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:50:35 +0000

Definitely Dale. People always tend to treat entrepreneurship as an all or nothing thing, but it can be a great thing to be both an employee and an entrepreneur…assuming you’re good at managing your time of course (and obviously you are). Having 2 sources of income can be great risk mitigation. While you have both, you should be able to save more, and if the job goes away you should hopefully be able to expand the business to make up for some/all of the lost income. You should start a class in corporatepreneurship

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:34:07 +0000

Great post… I think we need to teach entrepreneurship in school as risk mitigation. What better skill to have than to be able to make money yourself anytime you want?

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:27:34 +0000

Ha thanks Paolo. Never know when BC will pick up the posts

Here’s the link for anyone interested in checking out the comments http://www.brazencareerist.com/2009/02/19/being-an-employee-sucks-right-now

By: paoix

paoix — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:26:34 +0000

yo just saw this on the brazencareerist through a tweet! nice work!

By: Small Businesses and Jobs | Adam McFarland's Blog - Musings of a Balding 26 Year Old Entrepreneur

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:25:40 +0000

[...] is a follow-up thought on my last post about being an employee right now. All of this has sort of led me to take a step back and see the true value of a job and the role [...]