Yeah, WestCoast laid it down nicely.
It doesn't matter if you're self employed or employed, what matters is quick upwards mobility and part in the loot. Are you one of the leading males of the pride who gets to feed first or do you passively wait for scraps. Yes, that is a very real analogy for the corporate world.
Do you quickly jostle into position for a management spot and a substantial pay raise/options/commission or do you think the 3-4% a year and job security is great. Do you knock on the door to the boss and ask for a raise and more responsibility? Does the company need you more than you need them?
In reality, you can be alpha as fawk in a corporate setting, but you do have to suffer office politics and incompetents. In almost all circumstances the corporate alpha will out earn the self employed at least until mid to late thirties at which point the self employed is either a broken man or made it good.
Both are difficult things to achieve, however the self employed route is riskier and therefore carries bigger rewards if succeeds.
It doesn't matter if you're self employed or employed, what matters is quick upwards mobility and part in the loot. Are you one of the leading males of the pride who gets to feed first or do you passively wait for scraps. Yes, that is a very real analogy for the corporate world.
Do you quickly jostle into position for a management spot and a substantial pay raise/options/commission or do you think the 3-4% a year and job security is great. Do you knock on the door to the boss and ask for a raise and more responsibility? Does the company need you more than you need them?
In reality, you can be alpha as fawk in a corporate setting, but you do have to suffer office politics and incompetents. In almost all circumstances the corporate alpha will out earn the self employed at least until mid to late thirties at which point the self employed is either a broken man or made it good.
Both are difficult things to achieve, however the self employed route is riskier and therefore carries bigger rewards if succeeds.