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Escape The Rat Race - You Know That You Want To

Guest post by: Brigitte Mehr

Article Overview: Escaping the rat race was never an option for my parents generation. My father worked for the same company for over 40 years and this was not unusual. In their day people stayed loyal to the same company and worked seemingly happily for many years.....

Escape The Rat Race - You Know That You Want To

Escaping the rat race was never an option for my parents generation. My father worked for the same company for over 40 years and this was not unusual. In their day people stayed loyal to the same company and worked seemingly happily for many years. They knew what was expected of them and they happily complied. After the years of the war with all the scarcity and lack this created they were grateful for a good steady job, a salary and 20 days paid holiday per year. They and so many others felt a genuine loyalty to the company that provided them with this bounty that their parents never had. I never remember hearing either my parents or their friends talking about being 'escaping the rat race' or wanting to leave the rat race they just talked about years of service and genuinely looked forward to the pension at the end.

However, each generation moves on from the last and what was the norm for our parents now looks positively prehistoric to us. Our generation has been limping on the tail end of this system for a number of years. We have broken free of the constraints that our parents gratefully accepted yet growing beneath this 'freedom' has still been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction, a feeling of a lack of fulfilment that slowly germinating and growing. It is not necessarily a feeling that can be identified and 'labelled' but a slow and insidious movement gathering momentum. It begins as a feeling of knowing that there has to be more to our lives but at the same time a feeling of helplessness because we know changes need to be made but have no idea how or where and this creates fear. A fear because we earn money from 'jobs' to pay bills and support our loved ones and the very thought of not being able to honour these commitments is often enough to send us scurrying back to the office on Monday morning banishing all thoughts of change - for a while at least. Then the feeling returns and each time the voice gets a little bit louder and a bit louder until one day it is shouting in your ear and you can no longer ignore it.

The rat race is a controlling machine creating a population who are generally too fearful and too exhausted and too dependant on it to find the energy and courage to break free. Lets not forget that some people would not want to break free as they feel comfortable and safe in their lives and routine.

However, the recession we are currently experiencing has become a catalyst for thousands of people to actually break those rat race bonds. Admittedly the initial decision to break the bonds may not have been theirs. However, this can be seen as the golden opportunity to assess their lives and look at what they truly do want to be doing with their lives. They were probably sitting wishing they could escape the rat race when they were employed and now this has been forced upon them it feels scary and out of control which is understandable as by being a victim of the recession the decision was made for them. Now they get the time to sit and really think, and ask themselves the question do they really want to go back into the dependence, routine, drudgery of a 9 to 5 job again or is this the chance they had been praying for to escape the rat race forever. Golden opportunities are not always initially presented as this in the first instance, sometimes we need to look at the situation we find ourselves in and find the opportunity sitting there waiting to be discovered. This is the opportunity they deep down wanted where they could actually take the reins and take control for what may actually be the very first time?

Taking back that responsibility for you own life and fortunes is the first step to becoming an entrepreneur. The rat race is no longer accepted to be the norm because the age of the entrepreneur and free enterprise is here. There are now more people than at any other time searching for a way to earn their own living. Home based businesses are booming and with the age of the internet and the online global market place it has never been easier to take back control and create your own life. Working 9 to 5 in an office is rapidly being replaced by flexible and part time hours working from home. There is no recession on the internet because that is the preserve for the big stupid companies that we allowed to control our lives for far too long. The internet is alive, dynamic and constantly evolving in a way old fashioned dinosaur companies never could. The opportunity to create the life you maybe dreamed about whilst sitting in your rat race office is here and you only have to take action to claim it as yours.

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