Self-Employment or Voluntary Servitude - Which Road Should You Choose

Self-Employment or Voluntary Servitude is a decision all of us face at one time or another. It would help if our educational system prepared us for the right decision, but it still does not!

There can only be a few valid reasons or excuses for submitting oneself to any type of employment servitude. These would be either an obvious lack of physical or mental capability or, plain and simple, lacking enough chutzpah to be self-employed. If there is any other valid reason I am certainly not aware of it.

Let's get something straight. Whether an established employer or a new company, whether the company has great benefits, or no benefits, for it's employees, the only thing a company or corporation cares about is itself. When things are going well, no problem. The employed march-step like lemmings toward the inevitable betrayal that awaits them. When the "company" needs to make the bottom line look better, in some times, perhaps such as we have right now, the fastest, easiest, and least painful manner is to cut personnel. Those super benefits you became addicted to just make being unemployed all the more difficult to get past so you can move on to what you should have been doing in the first place. That being self-employed. On the other hand, the self-employed will usually shift gears, bear down and do everything they can to survive. More often they make it. They may get everything they want but usually they get every thing they need.

When a person rises in a corporation to the point where they are directors, or vice-presidents or above they literally can "write their own check". Many companies allow persons in these positions to control, on their own, when they get their compensation. They actually have a company check book from which they may write a check in any amount - up to the balance on their annual compensation.

Persons in this position rarely make decisions that benefit first the employees, or even the company. Primarily every decision they take is designed with self preservation in mind. They will do anything they can to prolong as much as possible the length of time that they are able to "write their own check".