[sdiy] Self-employment vs. corporate enslavement (was: small business idea)

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe Greg Amann, from writings of Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:15:32PM -0500:
> I cannot second this enough.  I went from a research division at hp  
> where 75 highly focussed people were all pulling in the same  
> direction to being alone.

Sounds like a delightful change.

> It almost killed me.  No that is not a metaphor, suicidal ideation  
> did occur and had to be treated.

Sorry to hear that it was so difficult for you, but, in my case,
looking back on it, I'm very happy that I was fired by bizd'roids and
couldn't get re-hired by any biz'droids and haven't returned to any
corporate cesspools. :-) :-) :-) ...  even though things got extremely
difficult financially and I spent a year and a half working outdoors,
taking care of a horse farm and nearly 40 horses by myself, but even
cleaning horse stalls was far more pleasant than working in corporate
environments,

> Peace, light and a proper amount of social interaction, BFG

Ah, but one can still obtain a proper amount of social interaction
without being a slave to a putrid corporate environment.

On 5-Nov-05, at 1:09 PM, Grant Richter wrote:
>Being self employed is very isolating. You don't realize how much  
>social aspect there is to the workplace, until you are alone 60  
>hours a week.

It's really like a pleasant vacation, unless, of course, one is a
masochist with some extremely peculiar fetishes and desires, such as
getting off on the enjoyment of fluorescent lighting, cow-orkers with
stinking cologne/perfume, bosses who nitpick about things, being a
slave to a soulless corporate entity, working on an unbearably fixed
schedule, mindlessly idiotic and annoying policies and procedures, not
being able to do things the way one thinks they should be done, having
to keep one's mouth shut when pissed off in order to avoid getting
fired, unquestioningly following orders of the vice presidents of the
moron sections of the knuckeheads society when one knows that what
one's been told to do is the screwed up way of doing something,
breathing bad stuffy workplace air, not having hot water for tea in
the afternoons (microwaved water in a styrofoam cup doesn't count - it
tastes horrible), etc. ad nauseum.

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