In your career / life purpose please always chase the next stage & never the money!

[Ivan Dimi]

Stage 1.       The Unhappy Slave – the typical employee selling half of his lifetime to others, hating his job to the bone, and living Friday to Sunday. Far away from following any kind of life purpose whatsoever

Stage 2.       The Happy Slave – the dedicated employee selling half of his lifetime to others, but at least working something that he loves or in the same field related to his life purpose, still far away from following his life purpose and living on his full potential and creativity

Stage 3.       The Unhappy Half-Slave - self employed / company owner in a filed that he hates, having the freedom & the flexibility to organize his own time, still depending financially on his clients. Far away from following any kind of life purpose whatsoever, but at least has some degree of freedom

Stage 4.       The Happy Half-Slave - self employed / company owner in a filed of his life purpose, having the freedom & the flexibility to organize his own time, still depending financially on his clients. NOT far away from following fully his life purpose and has some degree of freedom

Stage 5.       The Unhappy Free Man – absolutely independent, no need to sell any of his time whatsoever, still don’t happy because doesn’t have any life purpose or any higher meaning in his life. Free, but still not happy

Stage 6.       The Happy Free Man - absolutely independent, no need to sell any of his time and at the same time living his life purpose, working only for the sake of his life purpose, a free unrestrained pure artist (*artist in the broader meaning)

[preventingdiabetes]

Thank you. Where is this concept from? Or is it your own idea?  

[puporing]

There may also be a stage where one is "Interdependent" while working on said LP and self-employed/working... but I guess that falls somewhere between Stages 4-6.

[Ivan Dimi]

10 hours ago, preventingdiabetes said:

Thank you. Where is this concept from? Or is it your own idea?  

It is not any particular concept but my own truth proven by life itself ?, so it is more like a deep realization I've had and was always my compass whatever i took any decisions about my career / life purpose / life. Now being at stage 4 and seeing many of my friends losing their way mostly chasing money / security / status and enslaving themself forever i feel sorry, but the lever of social / culutural brainwashing makes it almost impossible for most to realise it.

[Ivan Dimi]

10 hours ago, puporing said:

There may also be a stage where one is "Interdependent" while working on said LP and self-employed/working... but I guess that falls somewhere between Stages 4-6.

Sure, they could be many sub / mix stages etc. But the last stage would be always to become a Free Happy Man. 

[supremeyingyang]

@Ivan Dimi

really good, it put in my repository as a quote

[Zeroguy]

@Ivan Dimi Did you achieved stage 6?

Nice concept by the way.

Edited January 27, 2022 by Zeroguy

[Ivan Dimi]

On 1/27/2022 at 6:02 PM, Zeroguy said:

@Ivan Dimi Did you achieved stage 6?

Nice concept by the way.

No, unfortunately I am not there now, but I am enjoying stage 4 at the moment and can not complain ? I've jumped basically from stage 2 to stage 4 and as I've described above you should never follow the money. For example the first year after founding my company I've earn about 40% less than my nine-to-five job, no paid holidays, no security, no bonuses nothing, but my happiness level jumped like by 10000% ?

The trick here is to do what you love. By doing what you love you are mentally not that attached to money and your deep satisfaction comes from somewhere else and not from money, so the decision for me to earn less but be more independent working for my own company was very easy.   

To achieve stage 6 is of course not that easy for somebody starting from the bottom. Stage 6 would be a mix between clever investments & optimized lifestyle. My goal is somewhere by 2030 to be there, but let's see ?

[Ivan Dimi]

On 1/27/2022 at 7:50 AM, supremeyingyang said:

@Ivan Dimi

really good, it put in my repository as a quote

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