Afther I read this @Zwielicht's story it got me thinking about this aspect of employment vs own business.
I've never been officially employed, only worked in testing periods, I was never been in the official tax paying employees braket market.
The only job I applied and I didn't get but desperately needed and wanted was for a 'boiler room' exactly like the movie with Vin Diesel. It was 1 on 1 thing just that they would not sell scam, they would gather high operational leads throughout EU. They had a nice corporation culture inside: who badmouths other coleagues gets fired etc. At the interview they asked me to "sell me this pen" and that was way before the movie, well, my english was not on point and that messed up with my confidence, they picked that up and they didn't hire me in the end, no hard feelings from me, but it would have been cool if I would get the job. Then I've applied for another boiler room, I got the job pretty easy then I found out after I declined the employment after the 3 months test period that I was working for the biggest EU scam company from that year, man I so dodged the bullet. That was all over the national news just a few months later.
After that I did a deep introspection and I've decided that something is messing me, I am not a reg person and I could not work in a corporate environment. Later years I found out is ADHD + other things but that's another story. Then and there I've decided that I won't work for anybody else's company except mine. I've worked agriculture, constructions, digging ditches and so other manually labour work just to keep myself afloat till I stacked some web skills and start freelancing and then a small business and never looked back.
Somehow, I've managed to build something around my strengths and limitations and automate the most part. I am still staking skills all the time because other way, my mind tends to be on the negative side 70-80% if I don't give something proactive to chew. I still like the manual labour, just that now I am doing it like a hobby, not digging ditches for money.
I am curious about you, what is your take with that?
(We let @God aside since it's self exolanatory that he finished his work in 7 days then only supervise the mortals)
I've never been officially employed, only worked in testing periods, I was never been in the official tax paying employees braket market.
The only job I applied and I didn't get but desperately needed and wanted was for a 'boiler room' exactly like the movie with Vin Diesel. It was 1 on 1 thing just that they would not sell scam, they would gather high operational leads throughout EU. They had a nice corporation culture inside: who badmouths other coleagues gets fired etc. At the interview they asked me to "sell me this pen" and that was way before the movie, well, my english was not on point and that messed up with my confidence, they picked that up and they didn't hire me in the end, no hard feelings from me, but it would have been cool if I would get the job. Then I've applied for another boiler room, I got the job pretty easy then I found out after I declined the employment after the 3 months test period that I was working for the biggest EU scam company from that year, man I so dodged the bullet. That was all over the national news just a few months later.
After that I did a deep introspection and I've decided that something is messing me, I am not a reg person and I could not work in a corporate environment. Later years I found out is ADHD + other things but that's another story. Then and there I've decided that I won't work for anybody else's company except mine. I've worked agriculture, constructions, digging ditches and so other manually labour work just to keep myself afloat till I stacked some web skills and start freelancing and then a small business and never looked back.
Somehow, I've managed to build something around my strengths and limitations and automate the most part. I am still staking skills all the time because other way, my mind tends to be on the negative side 70-80% if I don't give something proactive to chew. I still like the manual labour, just that now I am doing it like a hobby, not digging ditches for money.
I am curious about you, what is your take with that?
(We let @God aside since it's self exolanatory that he finished his work in 7 days then only supervise the mortals)
Not everyone gets that! But selling is such an art and learning rejection is very hard.
