Jobs

Smart people don’t find jobs; they create jobs. Smart people create the jobs that other people find. If you have a choice to be a slave to others or a slave to yourself, which would you choose? To me, the answer seems obvious. However, if this applies to jobs in the market place, I find my conclusion to be misleading.

In reality, so long as we’re talking about earning money in the marketplace, you are always a slave to others. The market demands goods and services, and you supply those goods and services in exchange for money according to their market value. If you’re a business owner, you are a slave to marketplace demands. If you’re an employee, you are a slave to the businesses’ demands. The difference is, there is much more of a reward for those who cater directly to the market as a business owner. The catch is there is a two fold responsibility for satisfying market demands as well as managing the labor that facilitates that satisfaction. Hence, while there is more responsibility, there is a much larger payoff.

I suppose one could be a slave to himself by laboring for sustenance alone, tilling his own land while maintaining a keep within his means; but then again, so long as you are subject to paying monetary taxes as a citizen, you a bound as a slave to the market. Eh. No escape.