Have you ever heard the saying, I owe, I owe, it’s off to work I go…
I started working at the age of 9 years old, cutting grass in my neighborhood. I then went on to work in a summer youth program for a few years, then I went full time working in various occupations.
Recently it dawned on me, I have been working for over 30 years and I am now 53 years old. So, I have been working half my adult life, wow how time flies.
Most everyone I knew of as a youth worked at a job, so I naturally followed what I saw others do. Until…
One day at the age of 19 or 20 I was asked by a carpenter working on my neighbors home if I ever thought about being my on boss? Up until then I had never thought much about it. He then went on to invite me to a meeting that, as he said, would show me how to be my own boss.
I went to the meeting, which was a breakfast style meeting, with his wife. It turned out to be an Amway meeting.
Now I although I did not join, mainly because no one ever followed up with me on how I could get started, but I left that meeting with a different mindset. Before the meeting I’d never considered working for myself, heck I was still young, so a job was cool with me. But I believe something happened to me with regards to my mindset after I left that meeting. I now had been shown that if I desired, I could be my own boss and work for myself. Thus began my entrepreneurial journey.
How long have you been working at your job or jobs? Have you ever considered being your on boss and working for yourself?
Sad to say, but as I look back over my working career, like many people, I have little to show for it.
As I lay in bed this morning listening to a CD by a entrepreneur/minister Gary Keesee of www.GaryKeesee.com he was teaching on looking for ways to work for yourself and to be your own boss.
I decided I am going to go for it. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
As this year, 2010 draws to a close, I am even more determined to make a break from the working class and pursue and to succeed at being my own boss, working from home.
I don’t need a job, I am way to valuable to be tied down to a 9-5 for 40 plus years only to come to the end of my working career having nothing to show for it.
How about you? Wanna join me?
See ya next post….