That’s scary. The reason why it is so scary is because of the fact that it reminds me that I cannot be a beneficiary of a sweet-fat paycheck, end of every month.

I could afford to be complacent when I was with a company, I did not have any work to do once I left office premises, I did not have to worry about my next paycheck. I did not have to worry about any learning curve ( to an extent, I had to, but experience would teach you anyway and I was in no hurry).

I always have to worry now. I am scared to death everyday and I need to just gulp it down. I need to accept the stark reality that I don’t have these paychecks coming in every month. I can relax. I’d love to take weekends off, but I can’t. I just don’t. Atleast, not now.

So is working somewhere a better option?

I’d still say no.

Life there in a corporate environment is really not something I can’t live with. Bosses are usually morons who failed their subjects in MBA big time and somehow scraped through. They mismanage and get their non-deserving promotions. Your income is limited to that paycheck thingy, but is not proportional to the work you do ( in sales it might be, but only a little percentage, not really the whole thing!)

Outsourcing is a boon to some but is a bane to some. Fresh talent gets wasted capturing signatures and entering data, doing medical transcription or picking up some useless calls from the U.S or U.K. These jobs pay well, but ruin your creativity and your essence of life remains buried in a hard-to-believe shift timings. No time to spend with family, no time to do anything for yourself. Your life remains buried into the lonely, chilling night.

Your I.D cards can swipe you into hell.

Job is hard but meaningless. Business is Harder, but meaningful. But a business engages me, a job just pays me. Business unleashes creativity, jobs unleash spite. I am the boss when it comes to my own business, my boss is not even a human in that corporate world.

Job loses. Business wins.

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