I’m 25, I own my own business that is getting by and I enjoy it. I work a lot but like that I have the freedom to do other things.
This makes me wonder because I have friends who make much more than me in “corporate” roles but don’t seem very happy. The normal office space corporate job hunch.
I personally don’t see myself not doing what I’m currently doing in 10 years, but I also don’t see myself not doing something different. Some of my favorite jobs I had were working 6am-6pm doing landscaping in the summers while in college. Or construction for 2 summers.
Now I own my own company and work all the time. It has its difficulties but I enjoy it. Looking back on my previous jobs I think I liked them so much because it was temporary. I got to learn and work really hard at something new. But if I was still doing landscaping 5 years later. Hell no.
What keeps people from job hopping? I wouldn’t mind doing landscaping-carpentry-roofing-etc over the span of a few years to learn new skills.
Are any of you guys someone who lived your life like this so far? Any takeaways?
I’m not really considering doing that but just curious. I feel like too many people become sheep that don’t want to be and then are unhappy (and there’s people that are and love it, which is fine).
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People dislike their jobs for different reasons. Some jobs are mundane and don’t challenge you. Some people dislike the whole “my boss makes a dollar while I make a dime”, some people are just lazy, and some people work for absolutely horrendous bosses or with terrible people.
I own a business so I can relate to you. But I’ve also worked soulless mind numbing corporate jobs too.
As a business owner it is rarely mundane. You are constantly challenge to either find work, find employees, or challenged by the actual job itself. Rarely a chance to be boring.
Assuming you are successful you are the one making a dollar so the pay can be quite nice.
You don’t have a boss so there is no one above you to hate. Similarly, you hire everyone so while you may not love everyone you work with you can in general at least tolerate them. And if you can’t, you fire them.
You have a whole set of unique problems that your friends can’t relate to. Meanwhile, you have a whole sleep of benefits that don’t allow you to relate to your friends’ problems.
Really just not accomplishing anything meaningful in my case. I was vastly happier tutoring teenage drug addicts than when I worked im software even though the latter paid WAY better.
What does your business do I’m curious.