I can’t stand having someone looking over my shoulder and telling me I can’t go get a cup of coffee because it’s not break time. Then having a boss chastize me for taking an unapproved break when I know damn well that I am doing more than my fair share to bailout less competent employees that are either too stupid or too lazy to do their jobs properly. I got sick of being told to do some useless, pointless busy work bullshit, just because I was on the clock and the company doesn’t feel like it’s right to pay me to be there unless I’m doing something tangentially and vaguely resembling work.

I remember as a teenager I worked in a pizza place, and one day it was so slow that there really was nothing to do. So, my boss decided that we all needed to do something to justify our being there. He decided that we had to clean behind the refrigerator, and all other sorts of idiotic places that really had nothing at all to do with making and serving pizzas. This is the sort of thing that you can expect to do when you work for someone else. I personally don’t see what the difference is to pay an employee to do something moronic and useless, or just let them have a little free time on the payroll. The employees are being paid the same either way. In both cases, the employees aren’t doing anything useful, and their pay is the same. Why?

Wouldn’t it be better to pay employees based on output, not on hours logged? Of course it would. Oh, they’ll tell you that is why one person gets a raise and another doesn’t. They’ll BS you and say that the harder you work the more you will get paid, but then when the time comes, the slackers get a 2% raise, and you worked your ass off for a whopping 3% raise. Whoo hoo. Why even bother to work hard? All it really does is screw you.

I was always good at my job, and all that meant was I had more to do. Some other loser would fiddle around for 20 minutes trying to figure out something so basic a monkey could do it, and then I would have to step in and take up the slack. 2 and half minutes later, I’m done. So, after a few times of this, I just automatically get the job, while the other worthless waste of life yaks on his cell phone.

Well, screw that. It’s no wonder I hate being told what to do. It’s no wonder because they’re really just out to use you and throw you away. So that is why I want to have a home based business. You’re reasons may vary, but I’m not a slacker. I do what I need to do, when I need it to be done.

I had a strategy of getting my work done fast, so that then I could spend a few minutes reading, typing out an idea, or just relaxing. Guess how that panned out? I got screwed. That’s how it worked out. I would be better off taking 4 times as long to do everything than I was being competent and efficient at my job. It sucks.

With a home business, I am the boss. No one tells me what to do. It’s all on me. And if there is really nothing to do, I’m not going to do anything. It’s all on me. If I don’t do enough, then I don’t make money. My business doesn’t grow, and I’m only screwing myself. If I work hard, do the dirty work, and put in the effort to make my home business successful, then I get to reap the benefits. I don’t have to answer to anyone. I know full well that if I get in the right state of mind that I can get in the zone and hammer out whatever needs to be done.

Do you think I’m in the right state of mind while the boss is harassing me about getting a cup of coffee? Here’s a hint. If I can’t get teh cup of coffee I want, my mind is on the damn cup of coffee I want, not on my work. Being relaxed and enjoying what you do makes you more productive, but GiantMegaCorp just wants mindless drones to do what they say when they say, and if your not being productive enough, they respond by cracking the whip, not by telling you to take a few minutes to relax and get into a happier state of mind.

Now, with my home based business, no one tells me what to do. If finding out what it will cost to get a repair done on my home is my priority in life at that moment, I can do it, and I don’t have to sit there and explain that it’s important, while the company says I should take care of it on my own time. I would, dumbasses, but I have this little conflict where the contractor works the same freaking hours I do. Duh.

If there’s a snow day, and my step daughter has school, I don’t need to scramble around to find someone to watch her because I don’t have vacation time to take because it’s December and I don’t have any time left. I don’t have to do anything, because I’m home anyway. We call that pajama day. We love pajama day. Maybe a little too much. If I need to do something in the morning, I can make up the time whenever the hell I want, if it’s even necessary to make up the time. Good luck with trying to put in an extra half hour at 11:30 at night at your day job. Ain’t gonna happen.

I didn’t have flexible hours at the punch a time clock day job. I was always under scrutiny from my overlords. They invariably always have some stupid thing or another to nitpick about. Well, I don’t mind my own nitpicking. My sense of tweaking something until it is just right is something I rather enjoy, but if doing something a certain way is stupid, then that’s what it is. Stupid. Do you think that matters to some big corporation? Nope. In fact, the more stupid it is, the more likely they want it done that way.

Here’s an example. One company I worked for seemed to think that if the employees did something, then it didn’t cost any money. Instead of having jobs done by the manufacturer, they would send it to us, and have us do the custom work. It could take 3 people 8 hours each, for a total of 24 man hours of labor, but hey, at least they didn’t have to pay the 150 bucks to have it done before it got shipped. Much better to wind up paying 350 dollars in our own labor.

I’m certainly glad to finally be the one calling the shots. I’m happy to make my own schedule, and more than anything, I am thrilled to make my own destiny. I know that not everything will always work out the way I thought it would, but there are plenty of ways to make money. One thing I have learned in my time at this Interwebtube thing is that you really need to just go for it. Stop overthinking everything and just build whatever pops into your head. Do it the way that seems intuitively right. Do it the way that seems intuitively wrong. Do both.

I have to laugh sometimes when I see blogger noobs asking questions about “Should I do this and then blah blah blah, and when should I add whatever or should I blah blah blah. whatever.Then you see responses like “Yes, You should do this first, then do that.”

NO! The correct answer is to do all of those things. Anyhoo. I seem to have strayed a little in the wanderings of my mind. The main point here is that when you have your own biz, you get to make the rules, and then break them. In fact, when it comes to home business, you need to break the rules if you want to get ahead. That’s why corporate world sucks. Breaking the rules gets you unemployed. In my biz, breaking the rules is how to learn what works.