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If you’re working for the man, you will in all probability never become a millionaire. That is unless you are ready to save for the long term and settle for the fact that you are going to be working for the rest of your life to attain a financially solvent retirement. If your reading a book titled “The poor slobs guide to becoming a millionaire”, then I’m assuming that you are probably not doing as well as you think you should.

 

Working for other people sucks. Unless that is, you work for a company that really takes care of you. And since I’m in the news business, I know that for most of us the reality of the working world is that most of us work in an environment that is not that far from what it must have been like to be chained to an oar of a slave galley.

 

Corporate America is not in the business of taking care of people. They are in the business of taking care of business which means that the people working for corporate America must deliver something that is making the corporation profit. Most companies do no want to take care of you. If you think for one second that the company that you’re working for gives a flying f*** about you and your life, think again.

 

If the corporation that you work for is large enough, federal government included, then someone who works for that company has already figured out your usefulness to the company and how much it is going to cost to hire you, pay you for thirty years and then cast you off adrift.  Some companies have it figured out right down to the cost of the formaldehyde to embalm you.

 

Bottom line is this. Working for someone else has always been a losing proposition for most of the working class. Oh sure, there are a few of us who may float to the top of the corporate cesspool, but once again, like the lottery, don’t count on it.

 

If you’re going to exert the amount of energy necessary to float to the top of corporate management, then you might as well use that energy to float to the top of owning your own company. Corporations do what they have too to make a buck. That means that they will pay you as little as possible to get what they can out of you, and then it’s off to the paupers field for your card board box funeral.

 

You must never forget that those who you work for are not your members of your family who will take care of you when the going gets rough. Anytime the bottom line is involved you must always remember that when it comes to your personal well being it’s the profit that comes first. Without the profit, you will be the one out on your ass in a corporate second, holding a box with your meager belongings and wondering, what happened? To think otherwise is stupid and will cost you dearly in the long run. 

 

For you to really get ahead and to make a million dollars, you are going to have to start some kind of a business where you either make something and sell it, or provide a service that people need and provide the labor and materials to complete the work. And that means that you are going to have to work hard, and sacrifice to make it happen. Unlike a lot of those books out there that promise you big money for as little work as possible, my book tells you the way that it is. You and only you can fix what is wrong with your life by doing something to fix it. The companies that you work for are not going to do it for you. If you want to succeed, you’re going to have to prepare yourself and make the opportunity to do so.

 

How do you prepare yourself?

 

By setting realistic goals and achieving them step by step. If you have nothing, then it’s probably a lot easier then you think to get started. Work for someone else, then you roll the dice. Your probably not going to ever achieve the potential that each of us has within. But with a little sacrifice and a lot of ass kissing you can do pretty well. Work for yourself, and at least you have a fighting chance to have some sort of control over your destiny.  But remember, working for you is the hardest option. If you are going to choose this path, remember, you are only going to get out of it what you put into it.