Love your work not so much your job

GregDuBois summed it up beautifully. Greg loves the work he does at his job but not so much the JOB itself. Read what he has to share, "I have to say, I love the work that I do. Essentially I am a paid science guy, investigator, researcher, I help people and companies with environmental problems or issues or help them stay in compliance and in good stead. But I DON'T love my JOB. Having a job means someone else can decide my fate. So I am striving for my financial independence."

Gregs philosophy for emerging at a place down the road to own his destiny is spot on.  Most people who love their work don't differentiate between work and job and tragically don't see a problem with that.  Loving your work is a blessing because most people do not.  Love your work / hate your work it doesn't matter if you don't own your destiny and your income you can loose it all at no fault of your own.  That's the problem with ONLY having a job and doing nothing to build your wealth in your spare time.


If you LOVE your job re examine  exactly what it is you love and you may make a discovery that could change the course of the rest of your life in a VERY positive way.  You may discover that it's the work you love and probably the people you work with you love as well.   But the job itself, if you open your eyes, you will discover has never nor will it ever give you more control over your own life, your income, and your destiny.  It doesn't matter if you love your work or not.  If the job your work is attached to is suddenly gone at no fault of your own what's going to happen to you and your family if you suddenly have no income?  What kind of problems will stem from that?  How about the stress and toll it takes on your health and wellness?


You can build your wealth in your spare time so that a few years down the road you can keep your job or loose your job and either way you will be fine.  Either way you will still be able to provide for your family.  Either way your stress will be in check and you can more easily live a good life.  There is something very logically wrong and against your own self interest if all you have is a job and nothing else.  Putting all your eggs into one basket, a basket you have no control over, leaves you 100% vulnerable to loosing everything.  That kind of life style is for the biggest risk takers to ever walk the earth.  Isn't it ironic that the bulk of the individuals living the riskiest of all life styles live like that all the while citing their core values of a secure and a steady pay check?  That "safety" is a delusion and a dangerous one.

It doesn't matter if you love or hate your job or the work that you do in your job.  Either way if you keep your job or want to get rid of your job for the love of yourself take some initiative to start building up your wealth in your spare time if you have not started already.  If you have ONLY a job then one day TIME is likely to expose your daily slight error in judgment.  You can escape initiative but you cannot escape the consequences of inaction.  MILLIONS of Americans feel that right now who are out of a job after doing years of nothing to build their wealth in their spare time while they did have a job.   The moral here is if you loose all of your income and benefits it's not because you lost your job, it's because you did nothing in your spare time to build your wealth.

If you're one of the "lucky" ones who has a job start building up your wealth in your spare time TODAY it very well could save you down the road.  If you don't have a job start building your wealth anyway there isn't much else out there if you're still looking for a job.  Even if you're college educated the odds are not good in the JOB market.  Most college graduates are earning drastically less than what they are qualified for.  But in the larger scope of things nobody will ever earn what they are worth in a job it's the nature of the unfair beast.  Where ever you are, rich or poor, start building your wealth in your spare time and let it be a residual income of some kind so you can essentially emerge in a place a few years from now to spend your time how you want.

Check out what Greg is doing to build his wealth in his spare time: 
http://teambeachbody.com/worldtraining

What are you going to do?  Are you going to let time expose you or promote you?  My advice to you is to take initiative and put time on your side to promote you!  Time will pass either way so get involved in your own life and OWN IT.

Tom
p.s. If you loved this article you'll probably love this one to, "Money and False Altruistic Moral Egos"