{"id":472,"date":"2006-09-26T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T00:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2006-09-26T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T00:41:08","slug":"blogoff-post-95-ten-reasons-why-you-should-never-get-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/472\/blogoff-post-95-ten-reasons-why-you-should-never-get-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #95: Ten reasons why you should never get a job . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to teaching you how to be self-employed, Steven Pavlina offers you ten reasons why you should never get a job<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”<\/p>\n

It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that!  Anything but that!”<\/p>\n

It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job.  But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.  In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself.  There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been self-employed since 1993, and I know that, by now, I would truly hate to have a job. Pavlina speaks for me throughout this essay as he delineates all the disadvantages that accrue to the employed…
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, sellsius 101<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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In addition to teaching you how to be self-employed, Steven Pavlina offers you ten reasons why you should never get a job: In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!” It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2465,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2465\/speaking-in-tongues-for-morgan-brown-a-quick-and-dirty-contributors-blogroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":472,"position":0},"title":"Speaking in tongues for Morgan Brown: A quick and dirty contributors’ blogroll","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I know I promised to do nothing but \"includes,\" and we'll come back to those soon, but here is a real PHP routine, doing an actual real world job. 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