Startling Upside For The Recently Unemployed
Here’s the upside for the over 250,000 people recently repurposed (unemployed). Good for you. You thought you were worried about work-life balance, KPIs, workplace equity, quiet quitting and your side gig. Now you have something else to think about. So think about this. The United States of America is the only nation whose laws, tax structures and underlying philosophy advocates entrepreneurship. Being yourself, living your dream.(Which is why people have always wanted to emigrate to the U.S.A. And still do. Over 60% of high value tech companies, for example, were founded by immigrants.) Our society has promoted this rags-to-riches phenomenon for centuries. Often under the guise of “Yankee” ingenuity (the origin of this phrase was British and sort of a put-down). The irony (highlight this) is that our parents, teachers, churches and others teach us to fit into the model of good grades, higher education, find a job and retire on a fixed income. Even if you break out of school and become an entrepreneur, your mother silently hopes that you’ll stop the cray cray and find a job that has health insurance. The best piece from last year’s great workplace walkout was evidence of an expanding sense of what calculates success: Not letting teachers, parents, or social hierarchy hijack your life. It’s not about how much money you make. It’s not things, or how much you can own. Don’t get a job, get a…
