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I used to work a job in kfc a long time ago and something that was nagging in my psyche was that I needed a proper job, an office job.

Fast forward a few years when I got an office job and I found that was not what I needed, yes the job payed me more than when I worked at kfc but it was much more stressful, having to deal with crappy decisions and processes put in place by some bureaucratic people at the top who do none of the front line work I did was draining.

Not to mention staring at a screen for hours every day and speaking to people constantly like a cog in a machine  in an unnatural call centre environment was taking its toll on my mental health.

When people speak to you on the phone they speak to you differently as opposed to in real life and often for worse. 

What I’ve noticed in the uk is many people get into office jobs like I was in and then get a huge mortgage thereby locking themselves into slavery.

Slavery to the corporate masters and slavery to the banks they took the mortgage out with. 

This can all be remedied by leaving the corporate world and learning a valuable skill ie like a dentist or a plumber (where you won’t be fragile to redundancies like in the corporate world nor will you be at the whim of your corporate masters). 

And secondo by buying a house you can afford. Preferably in cash. Because these people getting huge mortgages are paying in the hundreds of thousands of pounds in interest over 25-30 + year mortgages.

Whereas when you buy a house you can afford you pay zero interest and you have no large monthly bills coming out of your bank account.

Because when you take out a large mortgage, no matter what happens, you need to pay that mortgage every month. What happens if you get sick or are unemployed and need to take lower paid work? 

All of this boils down to being greedy and wanting more than you can afford.

All financial problems come from living a life beyond your financial means.

So whatever you do, don’t work a miserable job to fund a lifestyle that you can’t afford. Far too many people are.

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