3 things I learned working for someone else

7.5 years I worked in a corporation and time spent teaching a lot of things there, and in this article I will outline the three most important things to me, maybe one of you serves as a good guide.

1. Organization of time

Working from 8 to 4 does not take 8 hours as it should include a trip to there and back, and as I’ve been working intensively with Eat Different and doing everything I can to make money out of it and quit my job, I should have pretty well organized my time to keep up with 10 hours of losing at start and 8 hours of sleeping to include training, creating site content and all other activities for the remaining 6 hours.

I learned very well how to organize time, use every minute, and I’ve been through a lot of times that I actually had too much time, and it’s incredible how much time I lost to meaningless and infinite surfing on my smartphone by reading meaningless things.

Fortunately, I do not watch the TV and I’m not reading the news, otherwise it would probably take twice more time for that stuff. The time when we are not productive is necessary for us to work even better in the productive part, but the huge loss of time to go to work has taught me how to organize the rest of the day.

2. Achieving goals

When you are in the corporation, more or less everything is reduced to numbers and goals and whether you will achieve the goal or not. I was the guy who did not want to achieve the goal but to surpass it multiple if possible, so in my prime I knew to go beyond the goal and by 200% and I did not stop there, somehow I wanted to put some of my personal records and go to infinity.

I liked to bustle there and enjoy the status of the best, and that somehow I got to the rest of my life, I like to hustle everywhere and do the best I can, always look to surpass what I did yesterday and ultimately be a lot better than that.

Because realistically, the content I do today with respect to that yesterday simply needs to be better, does not have to go step by step anymore, but as every training needs to be a bit harder than the previous one, so is some of my personal competition with myself.

3. Time is more than money

How much time have I lost in this job! I just understand it now when I’m free to work 0-24 to do what I want, when I want and how I want to. When you’re in the 8-4 frame, you’re not aware that you are not controlling your time, but others are controlling your time. You’re achieving someone else’s dreams, you chase someone elses’s goals, the time you spend working on yourself and investing yourself for someone else in exchange for money.

This is something I realized after I quit my job, how incredibly good is to create your own schedule. How good it is when you do not have a year cvacation, when you do not have a weekend, when you do not have a week, it’s all a huge time line that you can fit as you want.

Time is literally above all.

Conclusion

I’ve learned a lot more stuff, but I would not go to the details. I’ve experienced good and bad moments at work, but if you ask me would I come back and repeat it all again – no way. I would repeat maybe one or two years, but more than that, I would definitely go ahead to develop my business.

But then all these things maybe wouldn’t happen, so it makes no sense to fantasize about what it would be, we have to do with what we have here and that is it.

It’s 15 minutes to write this article and 15 more to translate, but it’s a useful investment!

Take care of yourself and drink water, it’s hot! 🙂

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