I'm going to repeat that you will make a million dollars within three years of your first day of
employment at JT Marlin there is no question as to whether or not you'll become a millionaire
working here the only question is how many times over there are a few things more abhorred in our
world than the good old-fashioned nine-to-five job everywhere you look on the internet you will
be met with advertisers and influencers telling you how you can quit the rat race by starting a
business retire early by Saving and investing prodigiously or telling your boss to shove it
after Your Meme coins have mooned it's a nice dream that sells well because honestly sometimes
jobs can really suck I hate my job commuting an hour a day to spend eight hours in an office for
five days a week all with little to no flexibility is not most people's idea of a life well spent
especially since the dream of retirement is going the same ways as the dream of home ownership for
young workers so when an alternative is presented it's easy to see why these ideas sell so well but
that's exactly the point disliking your job is just part of the sales pitch if someone enjoys
or at least appreciates their job it's much harder to sell them and escape from it in whatever form
that may take a get rich quick course a vacation or an over price piece of consumer junk that they
work hard for and totally deserve there is little to no money involved in convincing people to enjoy
their jobs so the overwhelming message they hear is that they shouldn't be enjoying this but what
if I told you your job was actually pretty great yep it's time to learn how money Works to discover
why you should stop worrying and learn to love your nine to five I myself on this channel have
been critical of modern working practices the glamorization of overworking and hustle culture
the total loss of care around staff loyalty and the jobs themselves being complete [ __ ] are
some of my most popular videos it's all still true the standard 40 hour a week is an outdated
relic of a bygone era but that's also what makes it so great the nine to five is something our
ancestors fought very hard for in 1926 the Ford Motor Company introduced a five-day 40-hour work
week for its Factory and office workers this was done to appease labor unions that were protesting
poor working conditions while simultaneously making forward the most attractive employer in
the highly lucrative new industry of Motor Vehicle manufacturing as an added bonus besides halting
riots and attracting top talent the 40-hour work week meant that Ford employees had the same time
for recreational activities which necessitated the use of a brand new motor car you have probably
heard this story before but it's worth reminding yourself that a 9-5 schedule is something that
was highly desirable and only came about because a move that most considered borderline Reckless at
the time okay look this is the part of the video where I say just because something was a big step
forward a hundred years ago doesn't mean that we should stop pushing for improvement entirely we
may have already peaked and are now starting to go backwards in a lot of professional full-time
jobs starting early and finishing late has become the norm so too as taking work home with you and
prestigious careers universally involve pulling long hours working eight hour days five days a
week as an analyst at a consulting firm a junior at an investment Bank resident at a hospital
associate at a big Law Firm or even a developer at a tech company would be a dream these industries
can get away with exploiting their highly talented young workers because they are a reliable way to
make enough money to live in upper middle class or an upper class lifestyle first-year graduates
in these fields can expect to make six figures and compensation escalates rapidly with seven
figure packages being achievable within 10 years people are willing to sacrifice their
free time their relationships and even their health to stay on that track for as long as
possible because if they do put in the hours and work diligently it's a sure thing
actually Sweetie maybe you need to go home I'm not going home I cannot get sick right now I have way
too much to do but then again there is also the darker side to this career path to get into any
of these roles you need to go to good schools to go to these good schools you need to be a decently
intelligent and B spend a lot of money it's a little bit different for software developers
but the way the industry is going these days it's hard to get an entry level six figure job without
a college degree at minimum for investment bankers lawyers and especially doctors it's six figures
minimum to get the schooling you need to get in on the ground floor this feeds the Vicious
Cycle of exploitation because most employers know that quitting is not an option for employees that
would be crushed by student debt without the six-figure income they took the dead on to get
in the first place mental health amongst workers in these fields is something that is really not
talked about enough especially amongst doctors who are forced to hide their mental health problems
because any diagnosis could result in their board certification being revoked causing them to lose
their job that they are dependent on to meet the repayment of their student loans even still for a
lot of people including myself personally these careers are worthwhile because of how much of a
sure thing they are if you put in the hours and avoid being fired in any of these career paths
you will be rich like top one percent Rich so why aren't you doing it these jobs are there and they
have a very clear path of entry and progression so why are you working the job that you currently
do instead of one of these jobs there is arguably never been a better time to go into these fields
as companies are struggling to attract Talent so why not make the switch if it's because you enjoy
your job that you work then congratulations I don't need to prove to you that your nine to
five is great maybe you think that it's too risky but really risk isn't part of it you will have to
take on a lot of debt and maybe you won't get into the most prestigious institutions in these
fields but you are always going to make a lot of money if you dedicate your career to doing any of
these things perhaps you are being really honest with yourself and you think that you aren't smart
enough dedicated enough or have enough time to go back to school and work 80 hour weeks between
your other commitments maybe you think you just aren't in a position where you can afford to go
back to school well what if I told you that these were all totally legitimate justifications right
the reason that these jobs pay so well is about 20 because you need to be smart to do them but
80 because you need to be entirely dedicated to them above anything else in your life that
20 intelligence is probably an overestimate too if you are willing to do anything for 80 hours
a week you are going to get very good at it the hardest part is qualifying for limited positions
at schools but the people that make it aren't uniquely remarkable they just work really hard
being able to sacrifice the best years of your life is a different story though type the phrase
why I quit big law or medicine or Investment Banking into Google and you will find countless
stories about people losing relationships gaining an unhealthy amount of weight and not being able
to go to family funerals but because big projects were due why do you think they pay them this much
you have the opportunity to do this and if you're willing to work 80 hours a week for a decade to
get into these roles you will be rich but you won't do it because it's hard and requires a lot
of sacrifice there is nothing wrong with this and I wouldn't even personally recommend this career
to many people but what makes you think you would have any better luck starting your own business
which requires more sacrifice and a lower chance of financial success you need money to live so
unless you are independently wealthy you are going to need to do something to make money you listen
it's easier than you think every person you're on the phone with they want to get rich and they want
to get rich quickly starting your own business may sound appealing being Your Own Boss setting your
own schedule being the master of your own destiny and above all being able to make more money than
you ever could as an employee but wait starting a successful business is going to take all the
same sacrifices as becoming an employee in one of the most prestigious industries from before
sources vary widely but most estimates say that on average a new business will take 18 to 36 months
to achieve profitability in five years to achieve income comparable to an average American salary
that's the same five years that you couldn't spend at school because you needed the income
starting a business will also normally involve a significant investment of money some of you will
be lucky enough to have this but most of you would need to borrow it it seems more difficult to get a
business loan than a student loan and the terms and interest on a student loan are going to be
much more forgiving then there is the simple fact that most businesses fail and of those businesses
that are successful most are started by people that have had long careers developing great skill
sets by working a regular job but maybe you're unfazed by all of this because at the end of
the day having your own business still has one big advantage over working in any of these other
fields which is that you don't have anybody to answer to people don't quit jobs they quit bosses
working in a high pressure environment for long hours with a boss that thinks Juniors at a firm
need to struggle because they had to struggle when they were a junior should be classed as a
form of cruel and unusual punishment that's a problem you won't have if you're running your
own show which is great but you will be Trading that in for something much worse the author and
Anthropologist David Graber has released several books that I highly recommend the provocatively
named [ __ ] jobs was the basis of my most successful video ever but I don't think it is
his best work I think his best work is actually a book called The Utopia of rules on technology
stupidity and the secret joys of bureaucracy this book starts with Graber recounting his
experience signing his elderly mother up to stay at a nursing home he was forced to work through
hundreds of pages of paperwork for what would have been a simple transaction his mother would pay a
fee to the home from her savings in exchange for a room meals and Elderly Care despite the
straightforward nature of the arrangement Graber was forced to sift through endless
liability waivers that all needed to be signed in triplicate and witnessed by an appointed notary
despite being a great frustration some of this paperwork is necessary it would be important to
know for example if someone being checked into an elderly care home had a preferred physician
or if they were on medication but most of it wasn't most of the paperwork was a construct
of an inherently inefficient bureaucracy designed to keep the businesses functioning and the people
in the types of jobs that one might describe as [ __ ] you would probably agree that we do not
live in an inherently violent Society most of us will thankfully go our entire lives without being
the victim of a violent crime but we are still beholden to a fundamentally violent system see
I'm not the thief I'm not the one charging 85 cents for a stinking soda you're the thief
stray too far outside the rigid framework of the bureaucracy and you will face legal consequences
don't deal with those legal consequences properly and you will face violence in the
form of police enforcement Graber makes the case that most businesses exist because of
this bureaucracy every page of that checklist to get his mother into a nursing home was work
that kept an insurance agency a legal firm and a medical database manager in work within those
businesses are bureaucracies that will necessitate employees that exist for no other reason than a
tick box is created by the bureaucracy in the first place but now that I have said the word
bureaucracy so many times that it's doing that thing where it doesn't sound like a real world
anymore why does this matter graber's point is that you can be one of two people someone like a
business owner would do well from cutting down on needless complexity within their own organization
and they will be endlessly dealing with external rules and regulations about how they can pay their
staff record their transactions display their marketing make their product advertise their
services and deal with customers do anything wrong and they are one step closer to society's thinly
Veiled Threat of violence alternatively you could be someone who feeds off the bureaucracy someone
who is there to tick boxes for compliance reasons and possesses the adequate certifications to make
the operation legal nine to five jobs are a happy compromise for most people they offer
a safe place nestled in the fabric of society's endless rules to let people be present for a set
number of hours in exchange for a set amount of money we like to say that we hate the bureaucracy
but imagine how outraged your place of work would be if they announced that they were changing their
Compensation Plan to a 100 performance-based system graber's book was ahead of its time in
how well it described the phenomenon that is being called quiet quitting workers who are fed up with
their jobs are not quitting to find a new job or to take some time off but instead are simply
showing up to work and doing the bare minimum needed to not get fired with many taking it a step
further and doing nothing at all until they do get fired on one hand you go guys fight power but on
the other hand imagine trying to do this as the owner of a new business the reason that someone
can stop working and not immediately be fired is because of bureaucracy it will in many cases take
the business a long time to realize the work isn't being done due to internal bureaucracy and then it
will take even longer to go through a termination due to external bureaucracies like labor laws you
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in the knowledge that you will be cheating the system the entire time one of my life goals was
to die right here in my desk chair now if you want the best example of people doing a terrible
job but still getting paid a lot look no further than the History Channel what was once a great
Network that produced fascinating documentaries is now just a pit of reality TV garbage to learn
why this happened go and watch my video about the slow downfall of the History Channel right
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tough lots of people don't like their jobs but we do them anyway you gotta do what you gotta do