Our Current System. Mindset and Misguided Beliefs.
What is our common answer when ask about our dreams in life?, mine is "To buy a house and lot, a car and to have my own business". How do we plan to achieve that?, by studying and having a job. Sounds easy right?.
Education is not for everyone. We all know it costs us, public schools are only there until we graduate high school. Others quit because they can't even pay for projects and miscellaneous fees. After that you'll need to find resources like scholarships or a job to pay for your education. The fact that our current employment system is designed and based on our educational background where an under educated person has minimal fighting chance. Let's say a two (2) different person with different educational attainment strive to succeed in life, the sea of opportunity for the educated one is a lot bigger than the other thus a greater chance to have a better life. Get my point?, it's like the world is not meant for the unfortunate ones. Given the situation that you're born poor and uneducated, the odds are unlikely my friend. Chances are that you'll live the rest of your life working each day to bring food on your family's plate as a poor person. If you fail to educate your children, then you're passing that legacy to your children.
I'll try not to be bias on this. I know some individuals who succeeded in life being under educated. Given such inborn skill sets and knowledge learned from their harsh but fruitful life experiences combined with proper timing. Here's the catch, all of those people I knew are businessman and self-employed people. Stories of success featured on Television are commonly from being employee to building their own business from a small capital, tears, sweat and blood. A business company from scratch to a seven figure corporation.
After graduating college, we're obliged to find work to pay bills and start living away from our parent's roof simultaneously helping them financially to gratify their sacrifice in educating us. Well, it's really our duty to take care of family because we're living in a culture where family relationship is valued a lot, specially our folks. It is the way Filipino culture always is, family comes first right?.
Having a job may seem the achievement of our dreams. A steady paycheck, the credibility to apply for house and car loans. Obtain credit cards, buy nice clothes, gadgets and cool stuffs. All sorts of things that makes our everyday lives easy and stuffs to satisfy our hunger to access higher social class. Now we think we're stable enough to start our own family. It all starts to settle into place we planned it to be. Looks much like we are living the dream, having those acquisition for a comfortable and better living. What are we missing?, the reality of we; these people woke up each morning with such regret that we have to work our entire lives to pay for the debt caused by our 'living the dream' in advance. If we're lucky enough to keep a job in a particular company, we're are entitled to a company retirement benefits which is also the payment for the services we've done while being employed. Visualize this, now at last we gain a huge amount of money. We think of what's next for us?. What will we do with it? invest it in mutual funds and other bank investment plans?, it's good if we're saving it for our children, what if we want to taste the fruit of our hard work while we're still alive?. I'm dead sure you're not wasting your money for personal pleasure, family comes first right?, remember our inherited family values?.
Now we all know the solution is to start building our own business, risking a lot to gain a lot. Problem is, the setting up phase of a traditional business is time consuming. If you already have an idea of what the business be like, then you'll need to work on legality issues and all sorts before beginning to establish it.
Bummer dude! how old are you again?. How long do you think will it take to set up and kick start your own business venture. You haven't got forever dude, only few years remaining in your lifetime. So the time is now!, begin visualizing yourself many years from now. Are you the ones being pictured as example from this blog post or are you the ones visualizing yourself as a FREE,FINANCIALLY OVERWHELMED and HELPFUL Individual!
Blowfly
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