If You Could Buy Yourself An Income Instead of Working For It, Would You?
It only takes about 1 years worth of pay…..
While I do not regret discovering this idea later in life, I truly wish someone had approached me at 18 and asked that one question.
Pondering this question and it’s implications changed my life at the age of 38.
I was 3 years into starting my own business at home when I first was exposed to this idea by Tim Ferriss in his book “4 Hour Workweek”, but for most of my life I had been a career employee.
Enterprise Tech Support.
I had already exchanged quite a bit of my younger life behind a keyboard in an office for $45,000 per year, then $100,000. 14 years total.
That $100,000 job took over 60 hours per week of my time average, with an on-call rotation that gobbled up my nights and weekends. I loved the income and at the time it felt like I was making really great money.
Problem was, I never really had time to enjoy that income.
When we grow up, we all have ideas about what we want to be and as we get closer and closer to our adult years, we eventually decide on school, a trade, or pursuing some other line of work where we earn on average — anywhere from $40,000 per year, to $180,000 depending on what…
