10 reasons why NOT to get a job

Some of you may have heard of Steve Pavlina. He's a very successful blogger, author and expert on personal development and achieving your goals in life, whatever they may be. I recently stumbled across this article on his website that I thought was incredibly interesting called "10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job."

After reading his article, I've decided this is going to be one of my life goals: to never have a job. Although it may sound insane, once you read the article, you'll find out it's actually pretty damn smart. [I'm going to paraphrase it a bit but please refer to the link above to read the whole article. It's truly worth your time.]

1. Income for dummies - Getting a job and trading your time for money is stupid because you only get paid when you're working. Don't you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? The key is to de-couple your value from your time. Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a website, becoming an investor or generating royalty income from creative work.
2. Limited experience - You might think it's important to get a job to gain experience, but you gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well (one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money), or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again?
3. Lifelong domestication - Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet. Are your surroundings those of a free human being? Does your master reward you for your good behavior? Are you falling in love with the color beige?
4. Too many mouths to feed - Employee income in the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. You only get paid for a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you're paid, but most of the money you'll never see. It goes straight into other people's pockets.
5. Way too risky - Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just with the two words "You're fired" sound like a safe and secure situation to you? The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can't have security if you don't have control.
6. Having an evil bovine master -  Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which can mean master or cow? And in many video games the boss is the evil dude at the end you have to kill. So if your boss really is an evil bovine master, what does that make you?
7. Begging for money -  When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more or are you free to decide how much you get paid? If you have a business and one customer says "no" to you, you simply say "next."
8. An inbred social life - Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you?
9. Loss of freedom -  It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break their independent will, then teach them how to dress, talk, move and so on. God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it's against company policy. Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly. The only policy they need is: "Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun."
10. Becoming a coward - Have you noticed that employed people have an endless capacity to whine about problems at their company? But they don't really want solutions, they just want to vent and make excuses why it's someone else's fault. It's as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards, and when you work around cowards all day long, don't you think it's going to rub off on you?

Strong points or not, this guy makes sense. Don't settle for being cattle in an office when you know you can do more, when you know you're capable of more, when you know you're worth more. I will figure out how to do this in my life. Gone will be the days of clocking in and out and earning hourly wage.

(My dad is a business owner - just another reason he's one of the smartest people I know! What an example he has set for me.)