Two Reasons Why I Work for Myself

I was told, just like everybody else, education is the key to getting a job, work until my 60s in the chosen field I studied, so I can live a comfortable life in the future. Off I went on a journey after school, into the world of University. Studying for three to four years, in the field of Architecture, gaining valuable information, and learning. Now that all sounds like great advice and a decent experience, and while there is not much wrong with it, it offers a sense of false hope.

What you are brought up to not understand, and think of on a conscious level, is that for the rest of your life—after we secure that dream job, that dream role, that perfect career, you are tied down to that same corporation or establishment in exchange for your TIME. Soon, your job starts to consume you, you take your job with you, into your homes, to your family. Your life starts to be controlled by the JOB. Your salary becomes something you hold on dearly to, a collectable item as such, but you soon find it escaping your grasp as the pressures of society, the economy, the cost of living, simply starts to outweigh the production and fruits of your career, thus creating a cycle of spending and saving. Working at a job simply limits you to a certain level of income. A salary of £25,000, £21,000, £18,000 etc. You get the drift.

1. Opportunities

Missed opportunities have been the bane of my existence, I couldn't bear to think creatively at a job, I've worked in retail and security and a host of other jobs, and they all had one thing in common, automation. Adapting to 'falling in line' is not at all a far fetched idea at a job. My last job required of me to spend 12 hours at a fancy corporate building on Fenchurch Street, in the city of London, an extra two hours to get to and from the job, before I knew it, I'd be spending more time at work, than at home with my family, seeing my mother, immediate family members, seeing my younger cousins, seeing friends, or spending time outside of work. I had turned into the guy that's 'always at work'. I remember a friend of mine said to me, I was working as if I have four kids and one on the way. I'd laugh it off, but the reality is, my time was being consumed by a corporation, for their own benefit, not for mine. Because the money that I'd have made at the job was quickly getting burned by bills, helping out my family, spending money on food, and train tickets. So what was I really doing here? My vision for my life would, as a result, get extremely clouded, I'd have very little time for anything else, and only think about work, and being on time, not being late, hoping I'd not get stuck in my daily commutes to work. My creativity? Thrown out the window, there was no need to be creative in an environment where everybody was the same, the routine is the same, the role is the same, the script is the same, the people you see everyday? The same. There is no room for change and adapting.

You see, there is absolutely no security in a job, as soon as we fall ill, we are replaced with ease, we are just an employee number, at the same time, we are told to look the other way when it comes to fending for ourselves, and coming across the opportunities that would bring us back our time, earning unlimited forms of income, unlimited earning potential doing something flexible and working for youself. The world is very big and it is only going to grow in numbers. The opportunities are out there, the relationships, the networks, the right people are all out there, in the big wide world. Finding it, being stuck with one job or a 'career', will not get you there, it certainly will not make you a millionaire any time soon.

2. You only need people

Buying a van was probably one of the best decisions I've made, I quit my job and jumped straight into the world of removals and house clearances. I formed relationships with other van drivers and formed Whatsapp groups in which removal jobs were given out on a daily basis, a sort of take it or leave it approach, making as much or as little as I wanted. People needed to move, and they needed a man with a van. Where there is demand, there is supply. I quickly grasped the idea of entrepreneurship and working for myself in the first few months of this new form of self employment. The stresses of working for someone else, or answering to a manager, quickly went away, and I formed a new way of making money. With my own van, whenever someone needed to move, they'd contact me directly. The money I was making with my van was significantly larger than working at the fancy corporate building on Fenchurch Street.

As the weeks and months went by, I quickly realised, I only needed people. That thought had dawned on me for quite a while. As selfish as it may sound, I really did only need people, the billionaires of the world all do it, their philosophy is the same as mine. Your money is out there in other peoples hands, for you to find away to get it. The more conversations I had with people, the more I was able to get connected with money, which lets face it, is the motivation for everybody in the world we live in. The formula was and still is, conversations = revenue. The more I connected to groups of people as quickly as possible, the more I started forming relationships after relationships, and soon, my days was jam packed with appointments after appointments.

I quickly realised I could brand myself, make myself into a valuable individual, who had something to offer to myself, and capitalize off it, something I would never have time or the brain capacity for when working at a job. I started reading more and more books, educating myself on what moves the world, who are the movers and shakers of the world, who are the millionaires and billionaires, what did they do to get them into the position they're in? What is the nature of human psychology. I started prioritising my time, thus creating more time for myself, I could give myself days off whenever I wanted to, I struggled less with money, and I got CREATIVE. I understood, I'd rather take a day where I may not make any money, and then the next day, make hundreds of £'s, over a job where I'm guaranteed a certain level of income, and nothing more. Forming relationships is the best thing we can ever do, networking with people, and letting opportunities find you. After a few months, heading in the right direction, that's when I met a good friend of mine who introduced me to the world of Multi-level Marketing.