I’m sitting down with a ill princess and its 7:11 a.m. and I should be working. I’m thinking of how outrageous all this is. We weren’t born to work for someone else and not be with our family members when they are sick, but here I am. Punching a clock, and supposively, we’re supposed to get pleasure from it. Work wants us to believe that what we should really care about is our loved ones, yet they terminate us if we take care of them for too long. I can think of a quote that I think is true in this case, “to find out who really owns your house, just stop paying your tax bill.” In this case, to find out who really owns your life, just quit going to work. Your pockets will be empty real fast.Something that has buzzed around my mind a lot lately is that depending on one source of income is crazy. You should have so many streams of income so that the loss of one can be offset by the many. No company (with out solid marketing, and I’m not talking about the marketing they teach us in school, please no brand advertising) will survive unless its head is screwed on straight.

Maybe I’m too much of an S type owner (I really am, if you don’t know what this is, then buy a copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad). Maybe, I’m just tenacious, and I like flexibility, but I just don’t think this is how we’re supposed to live. Under the thumb of a manager who is under the thumb of a another guy, who lives under the thumb of a clueless owner who goes to Fiji 355 days a year out of 365 and only comes in to work to pull rank because it strokes his ego. (If you want that promotion that badly, that’s usually all you have to do, as long as you haven’t broken any rules by doing all your work| you’re supposed to do fast and efficiently, getting you ahead of the game, they don’t believe you’ve earned your money unless you spend the time (it’s not necessarily about the work) because that is how the “machine” functions.)

Call me crazy, but that does not sound like a real life.

Scott Buendia is a personal development specialist and lover of family time. He writes truthful motivational articles about the realtiies of life and blog posts and continually looks for a way to be totally ecomonically independent.