Entrepreneurship, Employment and Money

People sure know how to make money. People almost always know a strategy to get to financial freedom. So do I, so do you.

But financial freedom, to what end? To finally be able to live it up, parties with the Glitterati, trips to the Vast Nowhere, to be able to dive into a pool of money like Scroodge McDuck while not having to work a day? What if you get bored out of your skull, take to doing more exciting things like a certain Solomon - and know pointlessness of trying?

It takes a lot of wealth and success to get there, but some rockstars make do.

What about self-betterment? Isn't that better than an endless flow of money? Knowledge, wisdom, the pursuit of a passion, or passions? After all, the more you see the more you understand, the more you understand the wiser you get. The wiser you get the easier it is to not get angry, bear a grudge, be mad - the easier it is to be at peace. I want that peace, and I want that competence that goes along with it.

Don't you? Because, like beauty, competence is a good feeling, and so is self-security/confidence.

Thus. Show me a businessman who fails to be brilliant and personable and I'll show you a failure waiting to happen. People can choose to not work with you. And if you have the chance to learn to be both, why not?

Sure, it's understandable sometimes why people can be "not ambitious" in a particular vocation: some have their attentions elsewhere (say, family, or they're taking a course for something else and the current job is an interim one, or they're just happy with their work-life balance and don't want to put in more effort than what they're currently putting in now), but in this day and age - a job ought to give you more than just enough for monthly savings.

Unless, of course, it's agreed between yourself and spouse/family that once you've made your money you retire to a cheap Somewhere Else and to hell with past friendships and family relations. It's practically saying "if they want to visit they can damn well fly...*"

Which is not unattractive to some. But doesn't it sound invariably much more attractive, if you were able to say "we'll visit" instead? Almost like a "don't call me, I'll call you".

Of course, there are jobs that pay truckloads of money, like commodities trading. Certain aspects of banking. The likes - but unless you've studied for these specifically - what're the chances that you'll not just be comfortable, but rich?

And ah, there lies the answer to whether you're ambitious or not, and why.

And that one sentence would be more effective than the entire piece, itself. Ha.


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*...over. In an airplane.

**Amy Winehouse.