Another Beginning of the Whiteaura

When everyone is looking for job security, I am not looking for it. In fact, I am looking for financial security. Job security does not mean financial security, although job is a form of providing for our financial means. A job is only one of the many forms. There are many ways a person can become financially independent without a "proper" job. On the contrary, a person may have a "proper" job, but never financially independent.

I have problems when people ask me what I work as or what's my job. Strictly speaking, I have no job, but I have a few sources of income. A job is to provide a source of income, so why bother to have a job when u already have some sources of income?

Went out to buy dinner and was observing the hawkers. They are businessman, they run their own business. One packet of food cost $3, and perhaps the cost price is $1.50. So for every packet of food, they earn $1.50. On average, if the rental is $10,000 a month, the first 6667 packets is used to cover for rental of the store. 6667 packets.... Think even if the store is very popular, it'll take a few weeks to sell 6667 packets. And if we assume they take 3 weeks to sell 6667 packets, one day they need to sell 317 packets. Normally a store opens for about 8 hours, so on average one hour they have to sell 39 packets. If he earns $1.50 per packet, he earns $59.50 an hour

A teacher, on the other hand, earns much much less than a hawker per hour. Let's say a teacher earns $4500 net per month. One day he puts in 12 hours into school related work, like teaching, admin, marking etc. Let's just say that they work 5 days week, weekends totally free, which is very unlikely, they're only paid $18.75 an hour. Compared to a hawker, they're paid $40.78 less an hour.

Yes, a hawker may earn more money than an average salaried man, but it is through a lot of hard work and sweat, no mc, no leave, 7 days a week. Is there a better way than to get the money bit by bit, dollar by dollar? I'm a lazy person. To ask me to get the kind of money a hawker gets is definitely great, but to ask me to work like them is definitely a no no. I'm looking for the kind of job, or I should not say job, the kind of income that requires less work than a teacher, much less, and earn more than a hawker. In our normal social context, it only happens at night, when one is dreaming, but I'm looking at it from outside the common social context. There's only 24 hours a day. And we can't be physically working 2 jobs at the same time. For example a person can't work as a teacher and an accountant at the same time as they have the same working hours. They cannot be at 2 different places at the same time. Therefore we are all physically constraint by time. In that 24 hours, we can only have one job at one time.

posted by Whiteaura II @ 11:54 PM