Escape the Cubicle

By Mark Germanos
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Published: April 23, 2011
Words: 60,148 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458089458

Short description

How to leave your corporate or government job for something better. Identify what you really want to do, write a business plan, do your SWOT analysis, quit your job professionally and use social media to get your new business up and running. Follow along with Daphne the Dancer as she transforms her career from unfulfilled auditor to self-employed dance teacher.

Extended description

A job it is! Create your dream job working from home. You will find that self-employment is the answer to happiness. Escape the Cubicle is your trusty guide to self-employment.

I was a cubicle dweller too. My last cubicle-dwelling job was that of a webmaster at a downtown Chicago bank. We were the 36th largest financial institution in the United States at the time. We had a server room larger than a tennis court. Entering the server room and building $90,000 servers was fun.

Times were good: I lived 26 floors above downtown Chicago. I paid off my student loans three years early. I took scuba diving vacations to Caribbean islands I could not find on the map. The paycheck was a sure thing. All I had to do was play the political games. (Read more) A job it is! Create your dream job working from home. You will find that self-employment is the answer to happiness. Escape the Cubicle is your trusty guide to self-employment.

I was a cubicle dweller too. My last cubicle-dwelling job was that of a webmaster at a downtown Chicago bank. We were the 36th largest financial institution in the United States at the time. We had a server room larger than a tennis court. Entering the server room and building $90,000 servers was fun.

Times were good: I lived 26 floors above downtown Chicago. I paid off my student loans three years early. I took scuba diving vacations to Caribbean islands I could not find on the map. The paycheck was a sure thing. All I had to do was play the political games.

That was the tough part. The political climate was venomous; my boss’s boss had a very open disagreement with his boss and was reassigned. This drama dragged on for months and was the primary topic of discussion at our staff meetings. I thought that I could not get myself fired. Instead, I feared my boss’s boss would get his entire team fired. Looking back, I cannot recall why these bosses disagreed.

Maybe you have a similar culture at your cubicle job. Someone you have never met may read a report tomorrow and fire your team because it would be a good “business decision.” Stockholders and money managers want profits. If that means firing people in the U.S. and hiring people in Malaysia for 1/6 the cost, most companies would do it. Your employer has to reduce staff; your name is on a short list.

Maybe you’re already unemployed. Great! This is a blessing in disguise. You are free to read all the job-hunting and self-help books you can find. Tell the world you are free. Interview and network at will. There is no shame in being unemployed or self-employed. Make building your new career your primary activity. You are so free and fortunate. Rejoice.

Everybody should be self-employed. Anything else is a sacrifice of the soul. Welcome to Escape the Cubicle.
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social media, social networking, selfemployment, hate my job, swot analysis, quit my job, escape the cubicle, exit strategy, a job it is, job work, escape from cubicle nation, 4 hour workweek

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