Why is business better than a 9–5 job?

You will not hear this from your parents or surroundings, but there are very useful reasons to leave 9 to 5 job.

Lets’ consider an example of this day job.

Will you be able to fulfill your dreams by this? Odds are it’s far from it.

I know everyone is excited in the early moments but when the time passes you become fed up with all this stuff.

Lets consider some reasons to quit 9 to 5 job.

Job security is dying

Your grandparents had a period of job security like none other after World War II. And your parents job security wasn’t bad either.

But things are different in 2017 with new technology, the Internet, and a different way of doing business.

For example, the World Economic Forum explained that the top 15 global economies might lose more than 5 million jobs in the next five years because of robotics and other trends. That’s a ton of workers who will be unemployed if this comes true.

And companies across the board are shifting from hiring full-time workers to hiring part-timers and freelancers.

Advisor Perspective finds that 18% of workers are part-time in 2017, which is close to the record high of 20% in 2010.

I’m confident this is a trend that will continue and employees won’t ever have as much job security as they did after World War II.

So if you build skills and provide enough value to others to work for yourself, you don’t have to worry about a changing economy where big companies are laying off their staff. You control your own destiny.

But if you stay on the big corporation wagon, you’re at the will of your boss, their boss, and their boss all the way up the ladder.

That’s a dangerous proposition going forward.

Stress is awful for your body

Remember when millions of people thought smoking cigarettes wasn’t bad for you? That’s a joke.

And by now people understand that eating unhealthy junk food and processed fast food is a serious threat to their body.

But do you really understand what stress does to your health? I’ll help you out.

Here are a few of its terrible effects:

• Puts you in a negative mood
• Damages friendships and family relationships
• Leads to high blood pressure
• Can cause heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and a heart attack
• Interferes with your sex hormones
• Advances aging
• Poor decision making or addictions

If you work 45 hours a week and you’re stressed during every second, that’s clearly a dangerous way to live and you’ll face the consequences.

And we all know that work stress doesn’t stop at work. People bring it home and suffer on the weekend too.

To lower your stress it’s smart to get enough sleep, eat healthy, work out, and meditate. Though it’s wiser to still do all of that, and more importantly find a job that doesn’t drown you in anxiety.

Consider finding a job that not only doesn’t stress you out but it doesn’t feel like work for the sake of your health.

I promise you that these jobs exist if you put in the work to find them.

Work destroys your relationships

If work gets so out of control that it starts destroying your personal relationships, you may need to switch up where you go to work.

For example, one of my best guy friends worked as an accountant for a Big Four accounting firm. He made excellent money and enjoyed the job for the most part.

But he was always gone on work trips, which took a toll on his marriage with his wife.

And he didn’t want to be in a terrible marriage, get divorced, or end up like the miserable senior partners at his company with wrecked families.

So what did my friend do to protect his marriage and his future happiness?

Despite his manager’s warning that he was making “the biggest mistake of his life,” he quit the accounting job he studied endless hours for in undergrad and to get his CPA.

Then he pursued a passion of his, coding, through free online classes at MIT and practicing.

Turns out he loves coding far more than accounting. And with his new knowledge, he went on to co-found a software startup that is highly profitable.

It worked out beautifully for him and his wife because he now has greater freedom and flexibility to navigate his work.

9–5 Job will not make you rich

I admit this is probably the least important reason on the list.

Because money is not a top priority for finding work you enjoy, you shouldn’t make a career decision solely for the income or you’ll be disappointed.

But if you’re looking to become wealthy or mega-wealthy, you won’t achieve it as an employee.

They didn’t make their fortune climbing the corporate ladder. They built their own ladder.

And technically my claim that a 9 to 5 won’t make you rich depends on your definition of rich. Though you have to admit an Amazon employee’s net worth doesn’t come close to founder Jeff Bezos’ fortune.

This isn’t to say that you can’t end up with millions of dollars at the end of your career through investing your salary and compound interest, you 100% can as I show in this video.

Though if you want tens of millions or hundreds of millions, my advice is don’t be an employee for long. In this case, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow goes to who you work for, not you.