5 things every 9–5er should know
9–5 is not a bad thing, but losing yourself into it is. A view for those who are and are not yet pursuing their own thing.
This post is not meant to wrongly encourage anybody to take drastic decisions in their work life. If you understand this language, then keep these points to yourself, and use them to push you in your hustle to break through this cycle.
These are not steps to follow or any procedure to achieve some static result. This is a mindset and all the points tie into each other, or have some overlap with each other.
It is good, for a while.
I myself owe a lot to all the 9–5 jobs I did in the last decade. It has helped me gain stability for my family. Sacrifice would not be a lesser word to describe the time, energy, and intellect I spent during that time. That too, for someone else’s benefit who lived in a different continent altogether. That someone, who already had enough to feed a village (and they still didn’t).
Getting whatever salary I got paid during that time was peanuts against everything I gave. But this statement is not entirely true. Apart from salary I did get those life lessons as well. Even today I am grateful for those opportunities and lessons which made me understand the gap between what I want, and where I need to head. Settling in 9–5 was…
