The Myth of Job Security

A few years ago at work in the breakroom one of my fellow coworkers asked me why I kept on trying different entrepeneurial ventures. He said wouldn’t the safest thing for me to do is to work here until you retire. Now I have a job at a major utility and it pays well for the county I live in California. But I responded that is the riskiest thing for me to do. If I never tried anything different I know exactly what my future looks like. But if I try something that allows me to retire five to ten years earlier with a better standard of living in retirement shouldn’t I be going after that. Isn’t not trying the riskiest of all?

Which comes up to the next item. Why do so many people quit after trying one networking marketing opportunity? Then swear off of it the rest of their lives. Ever eat a bad meal. You still eat, don’t you. You have to be willing to take some risk to receive some benefits. How successful would you have been learning how to walk if after the first time you fell you kept to crawling? How many times have you fallen on a bicycle? You still do it because you see the pleasure in walking versus crawling and bicycling.

Don’t you still see the financial freedom the network marketing offers you? Or is it so overhyped that you can’t believe anything?

But how many jobs over the years have been outdated or outsourced within a generation? How many within a decade? Some become outdated in a year. I have always been driven to learn new things. I like to have more than one option. I want to know that if I get downsized from my job that I can make the same or more in another career.

I was born in the 60s when many could expect to work for one company and retire. That hasn’t been the norm for decades.

Job security is a myth. Anyone can be fired or let go at any time. Some are less likely than others, but the risk is not zero. Even government jobs are not as secure as people that don’t work in government think.

There is always the bottom line in the budget which has driven America for the last few decades.

So if job security is basically a figment of your imagination what do you do? You always have a plan B (and C). If you had to start a new career tomorrow how prepared would you be?

Wouldn’t it be better to be looking for your next job when you already have a job?

I want to have a successful career in network marketing for reasons:

• To quit my day job and see my daughter grow up and age gracefully with my wife
• To have money to invest in other passive streams of income.
• To learn the skills to be successful in another network marketing company if that day comes.
• I don’t have to quit my day job until I am successful at it.

What are your reasons? Don’t have any, borrow some of mine.

Here’s to a future of abundance. Thank you for reading my blog and I hope I can help you along the way to your goals through networking.Michael Bilicska