If you’re a candidate for escaping the rat race then
you may well already know it. Perhaps you have already
worked out how you intend to do it and you may even be at
the point of starting to take action. But what about those
who are still unsure as to whether, if the opportunity
presented itself, they would wholeheartedly embrace the
idea of breaking free from the drudgery of the 9 to 5?
Plenty of people like the idea of working for themselves
and are happy to vocalise this on a daily basis to anyone
who will listen. However, when it comes to the crunch, many
of the same people do not take action because they bow to
both internal and external pressures; there’s too
much financial responsibility on their shoulders for them
to become self-employed, they feel they don’t know
the first thing about business and don’t even have a
good idea for a company and, more to the point, they
don’t have any extra money or time to start a side
business, and so it goes on. And often, for those people,
the burning desire to break free from a corporate existence
just isn’t there in sizable enough quantities to
provide them with the impetus to overcome all the barriers.
There are a group of people, however, who despite the
internal voices that tell them they can’t make it,
they’re not good enough and so on and despite the
external voices telling them they have responsibilities and
that their ideas are pie-in-the-sky, still feel a
deep-seated sense of despair in the pit of their stomach at
the prospect of remaining employed for the rest of their
working lives.
Take a look at the below points and see how many of them
relate to you:
• You can’t understand how your co-workers and
friends seem so content to stay in a job, even though
they’ve experienced the world of work to the same
extent as, if not more so than you.
• You have always felt as though you’re in the
wrong skin in the workplace. It doesn’t matter where
you work, you feel as though your face doesn’t fit.
• You used to think you were in the wrong industry
and that changing jobs would help remove the anxiety
– it didn’t. Not the first time nor the second
time, nor this time.
• You don’t really like to do what others say
– it’s not that you don’t respect those
in authority, but rather you feel you would prefer to do
things on your own terms and in your own time.
• You feel like a caged bird, trapped by the shackles
of corporate life.
• Your body clock is not suited to society’s
rules on working hours. Your brain doesn’t engage
until midday and you like to work in short sharp bursts
with lots of breaks. Why is it considered productive to
trap people in a room for 8 hours at a time?
• You sometimes feel tearful at the prospect of the
commute to and from work.
• Your head is constantly full of thoughts of escape
but you’re just not sure of the how….
So, did some of those points jump off the page at you? Do
you feel this way about your job, about all jobs?
You’ll notice I talked earlier about those people who
might take action ‘if the opportunity presented
itself’. Would you consider yourself to be in that
category?
Well what if I were to tell you that the opportunities are
right under our noses, every hour of every day, every
minute of every hour? Alternatives to the 9 to 5 have never
presented themselves to us more readily than now. The way
we work is changing – the internet alone affords us
the opportunity to side step corporate life in a way which
would never have been possible 20 years ago. I’m not
saying it’s easy, and I’m certainly not saying
that it doesn’t require some considerable effort. But
what would you prefer? To put in a good bit of hard work
now (you work pretty hard anyway, don’t you?) to set
yourself up to be your own boss or to accept the
alternative; a life of longing, what-ifs, and endless hours
wishing you were somewhere else…?
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