This is certainly a big problem worldwide and you've hit the nail on the head! Here in the United States about 79% of everyone in the workforce are disengaged with their jobs.
I've written an entire book about this problem and things you can do about it!
1. Find out where your passions lie. 2. GET EDUCATED! 3. Pursue your dreams and monetize them!
It's not as easy as 123, but most people can do this if they put their minds to it.
Today, more than ever, we have more opportunities to get rid of the drudgery we call "our jobs"
The problem is, so many people stay in their jobs because, to them, it means security. Problem is, this "security" has eroded! A single wrong word or misdeed can get your income shut off faster than you can blink your eyes! This is no understatement!
Another HUGE problem is that most people are still following Industrial Age advice: Go to school, get good grades so you can land a good job with benefits and a pension, Work in that job for 40-or-so years and then retire.
Problem with this is that it's no longer a valid piece of advice...just ask 95% of the entire population why, after all this, they are sick, tired and broke...and will go to their graves that way...many of them with regrets.
People conform. We all do...it's human nature and the tribal thing within us. However, most people conform to the wrong group...the 95% rather than the 5% that owns and controls 95% of all the wealth (in the US.)
Many of us live lives of "quiet desperation" as Henry David Thoreau (if Ihave the right author here,) We are barely scratching by. Most of us live beyond our means and like to flaunt our wealth (however little that is.) Most of us discount the fact that it is our families, our children that pay the price when their moms and dads have to spend most of their time in jobs they hate...only because they think this is something we are "supposed" to do.
For the wealthy this is not the case. It's obvious many rich people have their health and happiness. You might not even know the neighbor next door is a millionaire because he doesn't show his wealth.
But for most of us who are in jobs we hate, there is one sure-fire answer for this...EDUCATION. Not just any education, but the right kind of education. Our schools have failed us! There are AA and BS Grads that cannot manage their money, wind up broke. Folks, I'm talking about Ivory-League students here!
Why are some of these bossed around by practically uneducated bovine bosses? What have they missed? What do folks continue to miss?
They have not followed their passions. They have allowed themselves to be pulled into the rat-race. Folks, you and I are made of the same stuff! We are made of the same stuff the wealthy are!
Why??? EDUCATION! Did we get the right or the wrong education? Today there is some very empowering information behind plain doors right here on the Internet...but they get passed by because the flaunted and sensational doors are more attractive!
If my post here means anything to you who read it, come visit me at my website!
Note that I'm not against employment...just seeing people (and myself) in jobs we hate! Employment, if it is suitable to one's needs (not just a paycheck) and one is passionate about what he does in his or her job, that's fabulous!
Andrew G. Rosen
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I've written an entire book about this problem and things you can do about it!
1. Find out where your passions lie.
2. GET EDUCATED!
3. Pursue your dreams and monetize them!
It's not as easy as 123, but most people can do this if they put their minds to it.
Today, more than ever, we have more opportunities to get rid of the drudgery we call "our jobs"
The problem is, so many people stay in their jobs because, to them, it means security. Problem is, this "security" has eroded! A single wrong word or misdeed can get your income shut off faster than you can blink your eyes! This is no understatement!
Another HUGE problem is that most people are still following Industrial Age advice: Go to school, get good grades so you can land a good job with benefits and a pension, Work in that job for 40-or-so years and then retire.
Problem with this is that it's no longer a valid piece of advice...just ask 95% of the entire population why, after all this, they are sick, tired and broke...and will go to their graves that way...many of them with regrets.
People conform. We all do...it's human nature and the tribal thing within us. However, most people conform to the wrong group...the 95% rather than the 5% that owns and controls 95% of all the wealth (in the US.)
Many of us live lives of "quiet desperation" as Henry David Thoreau (if Ihave the right author here,) We are barely scratching by. Most of us live beyond our means and like to flaunt our wealth (however little that is.) Most of us discount the fact that it is our families, our children that pay the price when their moms and dads have to spend most of their time in jobs they hate...only because they think this is something we are "supposed" to do.
For the wealthy this is not the case. It's obvious many rich people have their health and happiness. You might not even know the neighbor next door is a millionaire because he doesn't show his wealth.
But for most of us who are in jobs we hate, there is one sure-fire answer for this...EDUCATION. Not just any education, but the right kind of education. Our schools have failed us! There are AA and BS Grads that cannot manage their money, wind up broke. Folks, I'm talking about Ivory-League students here!
Why are some of these bossed around by practically uneducated bovine bosses? What have they missed? What do folks continue to miss?
They have not followed their passions. They have allowed themselves to be pulled into the rat-race. Folks, you and I are made of the same stuff! We are made of the same stuff the wealthy are!
Why??? EDUCATION! Did we get the right or the wrong education? Today there is some very empowering information behind plain doors right here on the Internet...but they get passed by because the flaunted and sensational doors are more attractive!
If my post here means anything to you who read it, come visit me at my website!
Note that I'm not against employment...just seeing people (and myself) in jobs we hate! Employment, if it is suitable to one's needs (not just a paycheck) and one is passionate about what he does in his or her job, that's fabulous!