{"id":159207,"date":"2019-07-29T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=159207"},"modified":"2019-07-29T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:00:24","slug":"being-self-employed-as-a-means-not-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/being-self-employed-as-a-means-not-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Self-Employed as a Means, not the End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When I first started working my first 9-5 job, I desired deeply to become self-employed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? I desired freedom! To show up everyday at an office at an arbitrary time, to leave everyday at an arbitrary time, and to do this from Monday-Friday seemed hyper-bizarre to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thought to myself: We are living in the most modern and technological society. Why do we still need to show up to an office and put in a 40+ hour work-week?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I desired to become self-employed to escape this technological slavery. But what happens once you are self-employed, no longer need to wake up by a certain time, no longer need to attend meetings, no longer need to sleep at a certain time, no longer need to “work” during the day if you don’t want to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is my grand thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To become self-employed as a necessary step or a pre-requisite to attempt to do and create really great things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1. Zen<\/h2>\n\n\n\nHigh-key. Los Angeles, 2019 #cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The greatest benefit of being self-employed: having the power to dictate how to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example if you’re a tech worker, you must check your email 10 million times a day, and usually respond (at worst) by 2 days. You must always be ‘contactable’ and ‘reachable’, and even if you want to do something like go on a random trip or holiday, you cannot. You are at the whims of your supervisor, HR department, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Becoming self-employed has afforded me the ability to become Uber-zen; to truly empty my mind of superfluous B.S. The more I empty my mind, the more space I have to let my own unique\/creative ideas enter my mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSelfie. Tustin, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I have the insanely egotistical belief that I am hyper-unique, hyper-special, and have this really unique mind and set of circumstances which raised me which allows me to attempt, create, and think epic things. That means, I refuse to live a “normal” life, because I do not want to squander my ability to attempt and enact great things<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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