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Fire
Your Boss before He Fires You!
Fire
Your Boss before He Fires You!
These
days, people tell me I'm a lucky man and that they envy me. My
wife and I run a home catering
business and I have a couple of websites
that are making money. I get to work at home, have lunch
and horse
around with my kids every day and generally do what I please, when I
please - I'm my own
boss and in many ways already successful. It wasn't
that way two years ago though. If you had known
me then, you would have
thought I was a ship headed for the rocks - a nervous wreck on the
brick of
a mental breakdown!
Many
of us can remember when our
Dads worked all their life for one company but I learnt the hard
way
that employment for life is a thing of the past. Organizations today
are constantly evolving to
keep up with changes. If they can't keep up,
they either get left behind or close shop. It all boils down
to the
survival of the fittest, and surviving means having to take drastic
measures which very often
means cost-cutting or down-sizing.
It's
a painful fact of life. Statistics today show that up to eighty percent
of the working population will
experience down-sizing either directly
or indirectly during their working life. Being affected directly
obviously means being laid-off and indirectly means having to perform
the functions of two or more
taff that have been laid-off.
A
couple of years ago, the company I worked for was in a financial
crisis. Cost cutting and down-sizing
was taking its toll on everyone -
myself included. When things started getting really bad, my wife and I
decided we had to take control of our own destiny. We started a home
catering business. I continued to
work for my company while we ran our
home catering business in the evenings. When we had built a
steady base
of customers, I felt it was time to leave my company. It felt like a
heavy burden was lifted off
my chest when I handed in my resignation
letter. It felt so good to fire my boss!
Over
the course of
time (after I left), investigations by the authorities uncovered an
accounting scandal in
my previous company. This news resulted in it's
stock falling from 1.58 to 8 cents! At the time of writing
this
article, the company has almost reached the end of the road as it
continues to struggle with depleting
resources, dwindling staff-force
and public scorn.
I
recently received news that six of my
ex-colleagues were given 24 hours notice to leave the company.
Despite
the hopeless situation of the company, none of them expected to be laid
off in that manner,
probably because they were very senior staff. What
happened to them could easily have happened to
me (or to anyone) if I
continued to put my hope in a sinking ship.
What
saved us was
our decision to start our own home based business. That do-or-die
situation forced
us not only to survive, but to triumph! I'd like to
encourage you to take that same step of faith! No matter
how
insignificant your business may seem to be or how little money you make
at first, the most important
thing is the realization that you CAN take
control of your life. You DO NOT need to rely on a job that you
hate!
Don't continue to be a victim of today's volatile job market or
continue to put yourself at the mercy of
someone else's greed.
What's
worse, DON'T work yourself to death making someone else rich!
You
may not think you need a home based business right now but remember
this - if there ever comes a
day when you ARE in danger of losing your
job, YOUR home based business WILL give you the option of
firing your
boss before he fires you! So here's to never having to lose sleep over
your job...cheers!
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About the Author
Andrew Shim is the owner and editor of http://www.PositiveMoneyIdeas.
com
a website which offers FREE IDEAS for those interested in starting
their own
freelance or home based business and http://www.PositiveTones.com
a FREE
resource website for Positive Living.
He and his wife run a successful home catering business.
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