Shocking Statistic: 85% of People Hate their Jobs
This is bad…
Do you like your job?
According to a survey by Gallup, there’s an 85% chance that you don’t.
Crazy, right? Also a bit depressing to be honest.
The Poll
I refer to this poll. As I mentioned before, 85% of people hate their job or are not engaged in their job as the poll results say. In Japan, it’s even an alarming 94%. In the US, it’s “only” 70%.
Admittedly, the survey is not exactly the most recent, but I suspect that the situation has not changed very much in the last five years.
People especially seem to hate their boss, as described in the linked article:
Employees everywhere don’t necessarily hate the company or organization they work for as much as they do their boss. Employees — especially the stars — join a company and then quit their manager. It may not be the manager’s fault so much as these managers have not been prepared to coach the new workforce.
Why does a normal 9–5 suck so bad?
Is it really that bad? I can’t tell. I’m still in college and have never really worked in a 9–5 job. I recently read “The Millionaire Fastlane” by MJ DeMarco. So I will take some of his arguments against a traditional 9–5 into my consideration. He influenced my thinking a lot, to be honest. I highly recommend the book, by the way.
For me, the following things would argue against a 9–5 job and make me probably hate it as well.
Working long hours, commuting, etc.
On normal working days, there is not much free time left for many people. If you add up the regular working hours, the lunch break, the commute, and getting ready in the morning, you usually end up with more than 10 hours a day. If you are stuck in a traffic jam, it can be considerably more. Then you also have to cook, eat and sleep. There probably won’t be much time left for other things.
A lack of control
As a normal employee, you can usually neither control your salary nor the success of the company. You simply perform your duties. This is a big disadvantage compared to an entrepreneur, who has full control of his business and can increase his income almost indefinitely since he is not tied to an hourly wage. In 9–5, you trade time for money, if you will. DeMarco likes to call this temporal prostitution.
You make someone else rich
In this case, I’ll let the picture speak for itself. I think there is no further explanation necessary.
How to escape
If you’re tired of your job and want to be your own boss, you should read through this article on what it takes to do that, according to MJ DeMarco:
On this mission, we have an incredibly powerful tool: the internet. Nowadays there are endless possibilities to earn money online. I have managed to make $3400 a month here on Medium in a very short period. I plan on starting a blog and affiliate marketing in the future and hope to get to $10,000 a month pretty soon, which is probably more than I would make in most jobs after graduation.
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