Types of Workers

Though there are many more types of workers on earth the two categories I would like to break them down into for what I'm writing right now is the Plodders and the Idea people. Though it is also true anyone can be both whenever they absolutely need to be if you actually want to be paid for your creative ideas you have to not so exhaust yourself being a plodder that you have no time or energy for anything else. And in times of various time of survival in one's life plodding at a menial job is necessary just to feed yourself and your family if you have one. However, you do have to understand that as long as you are a slave to your job you likely aren't going to have the energy to do anything else with your life.

I just went through this with my older daughter. She and her boyfriend have lived a more alternative lifestyle which is less expensive to live the last few years. They were used to life being more fun and less awful. They didn't have children so this worked okay for them until about last summer. Then things started to change because they either needed to break up or have a higher degree of commitment including financial to each other. So, this year since about January all both of them have been doing has been working, that's all. They moved to Portland from out in the country living on a Horse ranch to Portland. Since neither of them had ever lived it a big city before they were unprepared for just how much everything costs. Then they decided to rent a 450 square foot apartment and I told them that was too small and the size might break them up in time with them both working. So, when we passed through they were thinking of getting different places to live. So, I realized they had been had by living in a city for the first time when all they had known was country lives in Oregon and Colorado. So, I realized I needed to step in and get them a better place because they were doing the right things for the wrong reasons. Today, my daughter told me she wasn't feeling well and didn't want to work at her job. I told her that that job wasn't taking her anywhere she wanted to go and that she was only working at this job to make her boyfriend feel better about working all the time. And since he was now happy in his new job she might go back to her business of modeling again full time. I spoke of how unless she was able to put more energy into her modeling business that it couldn't develop. Besides whether that business was successful or not it would teach her how to better run a business since she is a very intelligent and very capable girl in her 20s. So, even if this business wasn't successful she could start other businesses in the future that would be.

I also told her to never take a job on a salary. A salary is the death of any entrepreneur unless the entrepreneur is paying himself a salary to run his own business. When you work for a salary you will have no energy to do anything else in your life. They own you for as many hours as they need you, 60, 80, 100 hours a week on a salary is common. So, I told her never work for anyone on a salary because that would be the death of her life as a business owner now and into the future.

If people go to college and work for a salary because they choose to that is one thing. But it is important to know that if you ever want to be a successful entrepreneur don't ever work for a salary unless you decide you have to do this only for a year or so and then stop to make enough money to make your business work.

Most people who are small business people work part time at a job while getting their small business off the ground. But you will never be able to have enough energy to do this while working for a salary for anyone else unless you want to put yourself in the hospital.

My wife's point of view: She has a Master's in Business Administration:
Her point of view is this that you often cannot ask for time off when you are working hourly most of the time but often you can ask for time off and get it when you are on salary. For example, my god daughter is a 

Sommelier which is a wine steward with credentials that works at a fancy restaurant in Southern California. She wanted to take the next higher test (i think there are either 3 or 4 levels of Sommelier testing, so they flew her to new York to take the test even though she is on salary here in California.

So, my wife and God daughter's point of view might be this: "If you are being paid enough for being on salary it might be worth it. However, I still say if you are going to have your own business often being on salary can be counter productive when you are starting your business unless you are paying yourself the salary. However, each person has to made up their own mind regarding this because everyone's life in the end is different.