I’m sitting here with a sick princess and its 7:11 a.m. and I should be working. I’m thinking of how insane all this is. We weren’t put on earth for someone else and not be with our family when they are sick, but here I am. Punching a clock, and supposively, we’re supposed to take pleasure in it.

Work wants us to believe that what we should really care about is our family members, yet they terminate us if we take care of them for too long. I can think of a quote that I think is true in this case, “to find out who really owns your house, just stop paying your goverment tax bill.” In this case, to find out who really owns your life, just stop going to work. Your pockets will be empty real fast.

Something that has buzzed around my mind a lot lately is that depending on one source of income is insane. You should have many so that the loss of one can be offset by the many. No company (with out solid marketing, and I’m not talking about the marketing they teach us in school, please no brand advertising) will survive unless its ducks are in a row.

Maybe I’m too much of an S type owner (I really am, if you don’t know what this is, then pick up a copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad). Maybe, I’m just tenacious, and I like flexibility, but I just don’t think this is how we’re supposed to live. Under the thumb of a yes man who is under the thumb of some other boss, who lives under the thumb of a clueless owner who goes to Fiji 355 days a year out of 365 and only comes in to to yell at people to make himself feel like he’s working.

(If you want that promotion that badly, that’s usually all you have to do, as long as you haven’t compromised company policy by doing all your work| you are supposed to do fast and efficiently, getting you ahead of the game, because they can’t stand anyone who isn’t breathing their air for at least 8 hours because that is how the “machine” operates.)

Call me insane, but that does not sound like a real life.

Scott Buendia is a personal development specialist and lover of free time. He writes truthful motivational articles about the realtiies of life and blog posts and continually looks for a way to be totally ecomonically independent. Visit the Uber Article Directory to get a totally unique version of this article for reprint.