Fire Your Boss: Work For You Instead

Ever want to fire your boss? Everybody does sometimes. The good news is that you can, even without quitting your job. All you need to do is change the way you think.

Have you ever wanted to fire your boss? I’ve never known anybody who didn’t want to at least once a year. I’ve worked with lots of people who wanted to once a day!

I believe you SHOULD fire your boss. That doesn’t mean quitting your job.

You have a choice in your work life. You can work for you, or you can work only to make somebody else rich. I recommend the first one.

No matter who signs your paycheck, you can work for you. All that means is using your work effort to produce a better lifestyle for your family. In my opinion, that means financial wealth (at least relative to where you are now) and abundant time to spend with those you love.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? The bad news is that remarkably few employees do it. The good news is that anybody can, and it’s not hard. You simply have to shift the way you think.

Don’t think like an employee, who shows up, collects a paycheck and depends on his employer’s benevolence to keep getting paid. That makes you a prisoner of your boss and your job.

Instead, think like an owner. Go to work everyday and do your best to find ways to increase company profits. Look for ways to reduce costs or increase revenue. Those profit improvement possibilities are literally everywhere, but few employees bother to look.

If you find great ways to increase profit, that will help your boss tremendously. Your boss and his bosses might be too frazzled with the day-to-day grind to see all of the possibilities themselves. Help them out! Believe it or not, that will help you.

Those profit improvement ideas, if you present them well to the right people at the right time, might just get you a raise, or promoted. Those ideas also can help you build a killer resume.

A steady track record of improving profits sells like hotcakes. A few bullet points like that on your resume will make your job prospects a lot brighter, and open doors you didn’t even know were there.

So, when you go into work tomorrow, start thinking and acting like an owner. Look for ways to improve profit. Make that your mission. That’s how you work for you, without quitting your job.

Copyright (c) 2005 by Roy Miller

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