WHAT I HAVE LEARNED BEING IN THE WORKFORCE....

Working at a 9-5 job for almost 2 years straight now, there is a few things that I have observed. Of course the benefits of working a day job includes 2-3 week paid vacations a year, 10-15 days sick leaves a year, medical benefits, 401K and many more. All the security that has in this job, earning a stable paycheck. Why wouldn't you want something stabled right? But what is the price you pay for being in a day job?

Here are some of the things I experienced that I am sure many have noticed after a while, this may not apply to everyone but I am sure it applies to most employees:

1.) Working from 8am-5pm or 9am-6pm sitting on a desk all day in front of the computer screen doing repetitive work.
2.) You must do everything your upper managers says and you often do not have a say in this.
3.) A lot of errands that I would do will have to be saved for Saturdays because I will have no time in the weekends...
4.) If you are just a few minutes late, people would look at you weird...
5.) Takes a lil over an hour to drive to and from work.
6.) Many people lives paycheck to paycheck... they earn their pay and then all of it goes out at the same time to pay bills, morgages, car, food, etc., thus not allowing them to save more money for their future.

AN ESTIMATE FROM 7AM - 7PM, I AM 8 HOURS AT WORK, 1 HOUR LUNCH AND 1+ HOUR TO AND FROM WORK! THERE GOES HALF OF YOUR DAY. PLUS 7-8 HOURS OF SLEEP... SO ONLY MAYBE 4-5 HOURS TO BE PRODUCTIVE?

I believe the worse part of the job in my experience is that pretty much almost everyone around me are fine with settling living such a mediocre life... and I can tell because the person next to me sighs a lot and even admits that he hates his job but it pays the bills.

They lack ambition and they do not care about living life... I can tell that they only care to work for money to survive and get by. For a while I saw it as normal because everyone around me had that mindset so I went along with it. But as I gain more knowledge about money and financial freedom... I feel that this isn't somewhere I want to be in long term.

Another employee says "Whats the use of being intelligent? You do not get much out of it." OR "The more richer you get, the more problems you have." I have noticed that many employees around me have a very close mindset.

One even told me "You have your anime and video games, what more do you want out of life? I am just living to live.". Sure I love video games and anime but I know life it much more than just that.

I see them posting memes on our work group in Whats App joking around how excited they are that its FRIDAY because of the upcoming 2 FREE DAYS known as the weekends. (Saturday and Sunday). I also fall for that too, it's days I can focus on what I enjoy doing the most. Most memes they post are pretty negative even if its to laugh temporaily but does not give much motivation in the long run at all.

The worse feeling is that many people dreads Sunday evening because the next day, they know that they have to go back to work doing the same repetitive thing over and over again. Sometimes I feel that way too because its neverending cycle of doing the same thing again.

And I am aware that job security is a myth because eventually many jobs will be automated and with the fiat currency losing its value every year, I am preparing for the day the company crashes because it is most likely to happen.

HOW AM I PREPARING?

1.) Investing on cryptocurrencies with tech that has the potential of increasing the value of my portfolio 10x or more.
2.) Educating myself on finance, business and technology that will in the long term give me the knowledge I need to work on making passive income.
3.) Saving and investing over 50% of each of my paychecks in general for emergencies or money growth.
4.) Connecting and meeting more like minded individuals with a positive mindset and sees the world more beyond what society views it... which I am starting to build on Steemit, YouTube and other social medias. Thank you all who understands and enjoys my content so far.

I will continue to work there a couple more years to continue building my wealth and invest more as I continue to educate myself to learn how to build passive income to sustain myself so the day I quit my job, I will be well off and dedicate more time on working on my passion, traveling and many more. This may describe what I am doing.

I am thankful my current job allows me to multitask between work, steemit and watching educational YouTube videos so that's good cause if a job starts prohibiting that... I may not last too long settling for this because I am not someone who settles for less if I can achieve more.

What do you guys think about this? I may do a follow up on this post later on if I have more to tell about this. Upvote if you understand where I am coming from. I write all this here instead of YouTube and Facebook because I am a lot less likely to be judged by people saying "This is what life is and you must make sacrifices to make money."

Even if its partially true depending on the situation.

Sadly this is a topic that society will frown upon when you talk about it because most people are conditioned to believe that a 9-5 JOB is the ONLY way to survive and that you are stupid if you do not work a job like everyone else...

That just means that everyone does the same thing... everyone are different and they are meant to do different things in life that they are naturally passionate about.

I am in the position that I am living with my parents still (because I choose to in order to lower my expenses), I am debt free, no kids, wife (even girlfriend) and live a sheltered life. I guess the only reason I am still working there cause I have yet to find another way to sustain me earning me the same amount of money on my own. But one day soon I will cause I never give up finding a way. :3

I do love computer works and passionate with technology, I am working as a Service Desk Agent, do not get me wrong. I guess the issue is doing the same thing and no room for growth unless you change position or work on your own. Thats why I do steemit and YouTube on the side.^^

Sorry for the long post but if you read all the way through, I really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Comment below your thoughts on this and resteem if you want others to read this :) Until next post, take care, God Bless and stay cool!