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What’s the point of having a job? Why do you even have a job? Why was your job created? Was it made for you? Does your job exist to make you wealthy? Is that what it was designed for? When your company created your job, did they really have your best interests in mind or did they just need someone to do a task? Let me ask you this: If you went to your job tomorrow and asked for a pay cut, would your boss love you for it? Think about it… A company’s main objective is to pay its employees the least amount possible yet at the same time get maximum production out of them.
The Rich Don’t Look for a Job
I’m Wealthy Today Because…
When I realized some of the core secrets of the rich, I also discovered that many people don’t have the entrepreneurial spirit. Having the entrepreneurial spirit is like taking the red pill, but instead of seeing the Matrix, we see opportunity. One thing people should understand is that THEY are the asset, and that it’s more about the skills they acquire than the job itself. For me, work has always found me, and I haven’t looked for a “regular job” in over six years. Making your own schedule and taking back a portion of your life is a great feeling, but even with more time flexibility, you’re still violating one of the core principles of the rich.
There are two essential wealth principles, and they kind of go hand in hand. The first rule of wealth is that you have to stop trading your time for money. Wealthy people leverage systems, which is why a lot of rich people own real estate—because housing is a self-contained system. Having assets that generate positive cash flow is one of the stepping stones of the wealthy. True entrepreneurs buy assets or create them, and they leverage systems.
Don’t Look for a Job… Own One Instead
The second “secret” of the wealthy is ownership. This is why people make a ton of money in the stock market. Essentially, when someone buys a stock, they’re buying ownership of the company (even if it is just one share). Having assets you’ve personally created is great too. Just imagine if you wrote a song, made an album, or maybe wrote a best-selling book. Now you have assets that can pay you for many years to come.
You see, it’s not really about having super awesome abilities and massive amounts of talent and savvy. What it’s really about is creating an asset you can leverage. And the truth of the matter is that it doesn’t take a best-selling novel to make something a good asset. What if you wrote an article about something you could make money from, like a home-based business or maybe just a product? And what if what you wrote ended up on the first page of Google? Would that be a good asset? What if you had 50 articles on the first page?
Look for Opportunity, Not a Job!
Personally, it’s easy for me to disconnect myself from the average mindset of going to school, getting a good job with benefits, and retiring at 60. I am a risk-taker, and I’m not afraid to fail. You know, I actually feel sorry for people who don’t have the ability to dream. It almost seems like they can’t visualize. There are certain scenarios that can’t play out in their lives because they can’t see opportunity. It was once said that if you want to increase your success rate, you have to double your rate of failure. This concept is right in front of us all the time, but I think that we, as humans, stop trying because we’re afraid of falling and making a mistake. The reality is that learning from our failures is how all humans are wired. We fail, we learn, but if you fail and don’t learn, you’ve missed the gold nugget. Truthfully, I say that if you failed in the past, then be ready for the success around the corner.
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Comments:
Maria Rodriguez, October 18 2012, 14:32
I found this post incredibly inspiring! It’s refreshing to see someone challenge the conventional mindset about jobs. The idea that we should stop trading our time for money and start creating assets is a game-changer. I’m definitely going to rethink my approach to work and finances. Thank you, Eric, for sharing these valuable insights!
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Johnathan Lee, October 18 2012, 15:47
I’m not sure I fully believe in the concept that having a job is a waste of time. There are many people who’ve built successful careers through traditional employment. Can you provide any solid evidence or examples of how your approach consistently works better than having a stable job?
Emily Johnson, October 19 2012, 09:15
This post raises some interesting points. I’m curious, though, about how one would start creating these assets you mention, especially if they are currently in a 9-5 job. What would be the first steps to transition from an employee mindset to an entrepreneurial one?
Carlos Garcia, October 19 2012, 11:25
While I appreciate the perspective, I think the post oversimplifies the challenges involved in becoming wealthy. It’s not just about creating assets; there are risks and potential failures that aren’t addressed here. It would be great to see a more balanced view that includes the downsides of this approach.
Sophia Martinez, October 19 2012, 13:02
Eric, it’s been a while! I hope you’re doing well. Your post really resonated with me, and I’d love to catch up and discuss some of these ideas in person. Let’s grab coffee sometime soon!
Michael Nguyen, October 20 2012, 08:45
Reading this post reminded me of my own experience. I used to work a regular 9-5, feeling stuck and unfulfilled. It wasn’t until I started looking at ways to create passive income that things started to change for me. Now, I’m slowly building a portfolio of small investments and side businesses. It’s not easy, but it’s definitely worth it!
Linda Patel, October 20 2012, 10:12
For anyone interested in leveraging assets like Eric mentions, I highly recommend checking out Mint.com for budgeting and financial planning, or Robinhood for getting started with investments. These tools can help you track your progress as you shift towards creating wealth.
Isabella Torres, October 21 2012, 07:55
I’ve learned so much from this post, especially about the importance of ownership and creating assets. It’s a completely different way of thinking compared to what I was taught growing up. I’m excited to start applying these principles in my own life. Thanks for sharing!
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Fine, stop trading time for money. The post ends by asking you to trade it for a different company’s money instead. Can you even sell what it’s pitching?
Marla’s right that the pivot at the end is the tell. Every one of these posts follows the same arc — philosophy about assets and ownership for several paragraphs, then a sudden turn to ‘so check out this system.’ We called it the bridge in the ’90s: get them nodding on the principle before you show them the product. The principle can still be true. The bridge is still a sales technique.
Gus’s ‘bridge’ point is worth separating from the underlying question, which I think is actually a decent one buried under the pitch: am I building anything that keeps producing after I stop actively working it, or am I purely trading hours. That’s a real distinction worth sitting with regardless of what this particular post is selling at the end. The exercise I’d give a client here is simpler than the post makes it sound: list every activity in your week, and mark each one either ‘stops the moment I stop’ or ‘keeps paying after I walk away.’ Most people find their whole week is the first category, and that’s useful information whether or not you ever act on it by joining anything at all. What does your list look like, honestly, if you wrote it out today?
Tried the ‘create an asset, get on page one of Google’ path this post gestures at, about three years ago. Wrote steadily for four months before the first article actually ranked for anything worth mentioning. Month six is where I understood that ‘write 50 articles’ is doing a huge amount of quiet work in that one sentence — it’s not a weekend project, it’s a sustained, unglamorous habit that most people underestimate before they start and abandon around month two.
Kelsey’s six-month timeline is worth sitting with for a reader my age in particular. At sixty-one, rebuilding after my pension fund underperformed, I do not begrudge the six months she describes, but I am obliged to ask what a similar undertaking would cost someone with fewer years remaining to recoup the time spent, set against someone starting in their twenties or thirties for whom six months is a rounding error against a much longer runway.
Kelsey’s month-six wall matches the pattern I’ve seen from the financing side for years. Most people who attempt this kind of asset-building abandon it well before her six-month mark, not because the strategy is wrong, but because the payoff genuinely does take longer than most people budget for emotionally, even when they’ve budgeted for it correctly on paper. Rare success stories exist. The honest median outcome is someone quitting around month two, exactly where Kelsey says most people do.
The failure-rate framing, double your rate of failure to increase your success rate, sounds bold and is mostly true in direction, but it skips the part that actually mattered in my own experience: which failures you learn from depends heavily on whether you have a system giving you real feedback, or just more attempts at the same mistake dressed up as effort. I failed plenty in my own run at this. Some of that failing taught me something. A lot of it just repeated.
Some people take bigger risks for a chance at more. That’s not the same as everyone else being poor by choice, which is what this post implies.
Ran my diner nineteen years, and I always thought of the building and the recipes and the regulars who’d come whether I was standing at the stove or not as the actual asset, the thing that kept paying even the week I had the flu and my sister ran the counter. That’s closer to what this post means by ownership than the stock-picking example it leads with. The best test I ever found for whether something’s a real asset: can it survive you being sick for a week? Most jobs can’t. Most side hustles that are really just you doing more work in more places can’t either.