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I started my career thinking that a corporate job would provide both security and financial stability.
As I was climbing the corporate ladder, I was convinced that I would pay off my home and retire with the stock options this burgeoning company offered me.
By the time I left, those options were worthless.
I did learn a lot of lessons on someone else's dime, but I also made a lot of other people rich.
One year, I received an end-of-the-year bonus of $10,000.
I thought this was a lot of money until I learned that my boss had received a $1-million bonus-off of my work! I found the same thing to be true with others I knew.
One friend opened the Latin American market for his company, growing that market from $0 to $50 million in four short years.
His reward? A four percent raise! I also witnessed, over and over again, that corporations simply have no loyalty to their employees-only to their shareholders.
I came to realize that as an employee, the idea of security in companies large and small is a myth! It took several years, but I finally discovered that the best path to taking control of my financial and personal future was to create(bootstrapped) my own businesses.
Today, no one can lay me off.
I receive the direct rewards of my own success.
I also get to decide how much risk I want to take.
In the past I had to be ready to fly across the country or the world at a moment's notice.
Now I decide when and where I travel.
I used to have nine vacation days a year.
Now I determine when and where I work.
This is the life of building your company the bootstrapped way.
Do I work any less? Definitely not-in fact, I probably work more.
But I control my work instead of having my work control me.
As a result, I have the ability to enjoy the more meaningful and important things in my life-and to do it on my terms.
Bootstrapped! goes beyond simply telling a person how to start a business; indeed, it promotes the values of achieving balance, reaching for purposes higher than amassing wealth, and investing time and resources into those parts of a person's life that matter the most.
As I was climbing the corporate ladder, I was convinced that I would pay off my home and retire with the stock options this burgeoning company offered me.
By the time I left, those options were worthless.
I did learn a lot of lessons on someone else's dime, but I also made a lot of other people rich.
One year, I received an end-of-the-year bonus of $10,000.
I thought this was a lot of money until I learned that my boss had received a $1-million bonus-off of my work! I found the same thing to be true with others I knew.
One friend opened the Latin American market for his company, growing that market from $0 to $50 million in four short years.
His reward? A four percent raise! I also witnessed, over and over again, that corporations simply have no loyalty to their employees-only to their shareholders.
I came to realize that as an employee, the idea of security in companies large and small is a myth! It took several years, but I finally discovered that the best path to taking control of my financial and personal future was to create(bootstrapped) my own businesses.
Today, no one can lay me off.
I receive the direct rewards of my own success.
I also get to decide how much risk I want to take.
In the past I had to be ready to fly across the country or the world at a moment's notice.
Now I decide when and where I travel.
I used to have nine vacation days a year.
Now I determine when and where I work.
This is the life of building your company the bootstrapped way.
Do I work any less? Definitely not-in fact, I probably work more.
But I control my work instead of having my work control me.
As a result, I have the ability to enjoy the more meaningful and important things in my life-and to do it on my terms.
Bootstrapped! goes beyond simply telling a person how to start a business; indeed, it promotes the values of achieving balance, reaching for purposes higher than amassing wealth, and investing time and resources into those parts of a person's life that matter the most.
