I was talking with my a friend about some stuff because they were stressed about the pressures of their job. My friends works for a new company that's well funded and has the potential to become very successful in it's industry.
I noticed how many people, especially young people want so badly to be part of a company and help contribute to a business and be somehow part of any success that business acheives. They feel huge pressures from society, bosses, and even parents to perform. This causes a lot of young people a lot of stress. But if you think about it, most of the time it's really a scam.
Why would you want to sacrifice your mental capacity, all your ambitions and strengths, and most importantly your time to spend it on contributing towards someone else's company and goal?
Even more, stress causes physical damage, it shortens your life and deteriorates your health, so in effect, you are physically sacrificing your body to make other people wealthy, while you often receive little more than a "raise" or a paltry "promotion" for your efforts.
Granted, there are exceptions in companies like Google or Facebook, that because of a company's generosity, they are able to share their success and make many, if not most of their employees millionaires, but the vast majority of the time (including mine and my friend's case) we are given very little in terms of stock options. And in large companies, sometimes you're given no stock options at all, just the pipe dream of one day.....in a distant world, you'll get promoted.....but still have to work your butt off for that next promotion. Maybe you'll get a stock matching 401k or some other junk, but you'll die middle class and having spent your entire life working for someone else's dream.
In the end, no matter how many promotions you receive, or how hard you try, the top leaders of the company will still be flying around in private jets, have million dollar bonuses, and your idea of success will be to dine at Red Lobster or lease a C-Class Mercedes and have the illusion you're living the American Dream.
Why should a person spend their entire life, all their energy, and forfeit all their own personal dreams and ambitions for the sake of someone else's dream?
Why should a person have to work until they're 65 and having spent their youth away for someone else and having nothing to show for it but a cookie cutter house and a leased car?
I'm not rich and I'm not living the true dream yet, I'm like most of you, just working day to day. But I own a business and I hope this will be my ticket out of the corporate rat race. Why do so few get this?
My main question: Why do people give up so much of themselves, just to see someone's dreams of goals come to fruition?
Discuss.
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