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Forget Job Security - Take ownership and design a better life

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! — Earl Nightingale

For better or worse, the days of having a steady income at a 9–5 job for decades are dying.

Entrepreneurs and freelancers understand this more than anyone.

Creating your own career naturally leads to defining your own day to day activities and creating a workable, scalable plan for your retirement years.

Because those later years depend so heavily on the financial decisions you make now, your career choices carry a heavy weight.

Richie Norton recommends you ponder over these questions and self-reflect to change how you get paid in life.

— When do you get up in the morning? Why?

— When do you come home? Why?

— If you had a different job…your ideal employment (or self-employment), would your lifestyle change…at all? Why?

— When do you go on vacation? Why?

— Do you dread Monday or is it like any other day of the week? Why?

— Who do you hang out with 9–5, M-F? Why?

A recent Future Workplace survey found that 91 percent of millennials expect to stay in a job for less than three years, and that flexible hours and location-independent policies are more desirable than salary.

The future of work is a lifestyle of personal preferences, personal development, and personal responsibility.

The future of work means fewer hours spent on-site, locked into a cubicle, and punching a time clock tied to a rigid set of hours and rules.

“The mind-set of lifetime or long-term employment doesn’t even exist for many employees today. They simply expect to be at an organisation for a few years and then move onto the next thing,” says Jacob Morgan (an Author, speaker and futurist) of Forbes.

With job security a thing of the past, what can you do to set yourself up for success?

“We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organisation for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.” — Bo Bennett

Starting today, you can easily diversifying your income based on your unique skills— a strategic way to create a solid, reliable income now and establish a retirement fun you can depend on in the future.

Aside from the change in the functionality and attitudes of the contemporary workplace, job security is an illusion for an entirely different reason.

If the companies and corporations of the past suffered bankruptcy or any other financial crisis, the pension their employees had worked so hard for simply disappeared forcing many of them back into the working world, often at lower pay scales.

Even when a company closes its doors for reasons other than commercial failure, the security of your job and the security of your pension are plunged into uncertainty.

Taking your career firmly into your own hands is the best way to ensure longevity, career and retirement security, and a diverse income stream.

“Surviving in today’s economy means having the flexibility to let go of the ideas of the past, the courage to constantly reevaluate plans for the future, and the presence of mind to adapt to life, as it is, in the moment,” writes Micha Kaufman of Forbes. 

Don’t become stagnant just because you don’t want to lose your job.

“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely,” writes Seth Godin in his book, Linchpin.

Today, technology has changed everything.

“The trend points to a new era in which most of us will work in multiple “micro-careers” at the same time, leaving the traditional full-time job behind,” writes Kevin Maney of Wired.

Create a stream of passive income!

Ask us, how we were able to create a passive income and secure our future!

Source: https://medium.com/kaizen-habits/forget-job-security-how-to-take-ownership-of-your-work-and-design-a-better-life-592d2bef4ca0