It’s Your Life or Is It?

Written by Bob Dill on Jan 16, 2012 1:08 pm

Life’s Time Constraints:

Total Hours per Week: 168

40 Hours: Employer mandated demands on your
time, the time you must show up, time you can leave, when you can go to lunch,
on and on. Under current economic conditions employers know they have you over
a barrel, 40 hours work week is a joke, more like 50 or 60 hours.

10 hours plus: Average amount of time spent
commuting to and from J.O.B.

56 Hours: Doctor recommended sleep time for
maximum efficiency. Although we all cheat at this time to make up for other
time deficiencies.

Work, Commute, Sleep = 69 % of your
week.

This leaves
about 50-60 hours in your week.

50-60 hours: grocery shopping, children and children’s
activities, laundry, house cleaning, lawn and garden maintenance, recreation,
just to list a few. Usually by Monday morning, you will find yourself out of
time. Just to start over again.

Employer constrictions on your Life:

Most
employers provide:

Sick time:
Most have adopted use it or loss it policies. Many after one day of sick
leave, require doctor’s notes. What if you’re just sick of your job? What if
one of your children is sick? What if you provide care for an aging parent? I’ll tell you what you do; you lie, because
if you tell the truth your job is in jeopardy.

Vacation Time:
Must be scheduled months in advance and then only if your employer
thinks it is convenient to them. Ever hard your vacation canceled or better
still not allowed going at all?

Health insurance:
Each year the increased cost is being passed down to the employee,
that’s you. You can’t afford to have it and you can’t afford the risk if you
don’t.

Add to the mix: Most employees have not had a raise
for a few years.

Costs of
everything are rising faster than we can keep up.

Houses have
been lost at an alarming rate.

Try this on
for size, 18 months from retirement, get canned because of economic conditions,
and lose just about everything.

Is this where you want, you’re Life to go?

Come on people, what is going to take for you to WAKE UP?

You have known
for a long time that there is only one way to combat these problems associated
with a job. Work for yourself!

I’m no
different than most of you, I let my fears and “What If’s” stop me time after
time.

I deprived
myself, my family and my friends from the financial freedom and time freedom
for far too long.

Don’t do the
same thing, start now, and give it everything you got.

I’m not
suggesting you stop what you’re doing.

What I am suggesting is be open to taking a look
at other opportunities that don’t interfere with what you currently do.