9-5 Jobs Are Great Actually - How Money Works

id rather die over taking over the role of boss/ceo

I work 9-5. It hasn’t made raising a family very financially possible without additional jobs. In the past a husband could raise his family on just one of these college edumacated jobs. I have a 4 year degree. These days it doesn’t seem worth it when it really doesn’t pay that well anymore for many of us. Granted, if you live in a big city, maybe you’ll get a good paying one or if you work for a great big and generous corporation. That’s not the worst part of the 9-5. It is that these jobs often depend on endless growth goals that aren’t realistic and end up concentrating profits among a smaller pool of suppliers and distributors. Corporations are able to grow huge because they hire a lot of w2 employees, expand globally, then try to make a profit.
But at what cost? Who loses in this economy? Sometimes it works well and the world benefits, but sometimes it just takes the same type of business away from all those 5&10 cent store owners that no longer exist because of these tactics. There’s a long history of hatred against big biz because of how all this went down. It feels a little dirty and something is off.

But what if the economy was transformed more into a smaller business economy again? What if employees were treated with more trust, freedoms, and ownership? I can hear the complaints now. If they aren’t at their desk 8 hours a day, how can we justify a 50k salary? It would have problems to overcome if things were different. 9-5’s encourage compliance, ethics, productivity and profits. These are all wonderful results. There are still good reasons people hate the 9-5. We are hooked because of the security and regularity they provide us with. And that’s the tradeoff. Yes we who work them know the tradeoff and the benefits that we show up for. I for one am grateful but not convinced they are the best way to do things. We also know there are serious downsides and it would be amazing if we could solve some of those issues somehow. It’s going to take time and lots of debate and experimentation to get there. But as it stands, it’s a tradeoff many people wish they could reform or find a way out. If there is a good way out, people will take that, simply because freedom is what many are after if they can afford it.

I like my 6-230 more 🤣🤣

A lot of these comments are misunderstanding what’s happening. 9-5 are necessary they are just shit because greed and poor management

Most people that own businesses nowadays, just bought and took over a business that someone else started and either ran them to success or ran them into the ground.

In japan its 9-6 with 1 hour rest. I am a mechanical engineer working in product development for $17700 after tax. ❤❤❤

In thailans its 8-5 job...

To all comments saying it's management...100% AGREE

Bad management can easily fuck everything up.

I used to be a Manager/Sr. Manager within the insurance industry and I can say this is 100% correct. Even worked for a Tech company from San Fran and this is nothing but spot on. The big salaries look appealing until your body/mind cannot keep the 60-80 week pace - most times aren’t worth the stress.

Does anybody have an idea on what should a person do, if he cannot complete any school whatsoever, and nobody will hire him because he has not finished school?

I dont enjoy 9-5.

9 to 5 in europe or australia is a luxury

Here in Thailand, most of the company are working 6 days a week 💀💀💀

A decent paying 9-5 job is very rare these days. The job we get is 9-7 on paper and at times it becomes 9-9 without even any extra pay!

Anyone who buys the concept that the human soul is supposed to toil our hours away for most of our lives is a tool, a useful fool for the 1%. We are so much more than spending our health making wealth Only to turn around in retirement in our 70s (if we're that lucky) to use that wealth gaining back a little bit of health to enjoy the last few years of life. We are not supposed to live like this.

Ya know what's better than spending 40 hours a week creating excuses for an exploitative bureaucracy in exchange for a third of what you need to survive?

Working 20-30 hours a week in the privacy of your own home to make everything you need to survive with your own hands, plus a little extra to share with your neighbors.

Which is how most of the world lived through most of human history.

6 hour workdays would honestly make so much more sense in so many fields. Most people just don't have the ability to think at a high level for 8 hours straight and most jobs don't provide 8 hours of work. Cutting hours by 25% (without cutting wages) would probably make no difference at all to most companies bottom line.

Start by working for a business, learn how the business works, then after a few years start your own business and you'll have a higher chances of success running your own.

For Chinese 9-5 work/study schedule is 9 am- 5 am next morning!

Im work from 6 to 6 and i feeds fine

Actually the residency program was designed by a cokehead who was strung out that's why the hours are so crazy medical community just decides to not remedy this.

Is great but not enough, 9-3 for 5 days or 9-5 for 4 days is the end goal (from 7-5 for 6 days perspective)

There is no such thing as “a sure thing” anymore. There is no such thing as “loyalty” anymore. There is no such thing as a “long term career” anymore. If you want a competitive salary, you jump ship every 2-3 years and only put in the bare minimum.

A 9-5 is only worth it after college.

I will never listen to someone who is a freelancer or a business owner and would never return to an office job to tell me that working for yourself is not as good as it looks. I've heard this a billion time, and whenever I tell them why don't they just return to a 9-5 then? all of them come back to me with a blank stare and an "euEUHhh, I like what I'm doing". and here is what they don't fucking get. most people who work a 9-5 don't like what they're doing and feel they are meant to do something they like. Never, Never let anyone even this guy who I like to watch to tell you that working a 9-5 isn't a bad idea. If you believe it's not for you, It's not. Go do something else with your life.

Its not even 9-5 anymore. Most companies force you to take qn hour lunch and makes you come in earlier to compensate for you break.... Its fucking 8-5 now.

I have run my own business for 15 years. There is so much less bull. My customers are super happy, and I have more work than I can actually take on. I get to choose what I do, and how long to work. Some weeks I work too hard. But each year, I try for better balance. There is never stupid performance reviews that mean nothing. Yes, I do work after hours some days, but it isn't every day, and it's usually not hard. Wouldn't trade for any amount of money.

When I was a teen, I was working an $8/hr job and kept trying to find ways to start a business or make money with side hustles. Then i turned 18 and got my first grown up job making $12/hr. After a couple years, I got my first salary job at $40k/yr. I still kept looking for side hustles and tried to start different kinds of businesses. Two years later I got a promotion at work that came with a $20k pay increase. That's when I really started focusing more on growing my 9-5 career. Over the next four years, that $60k salary turned into an $80k salary while I kept doing the networking and improving my skills. Then I got my next promotion that took me up to $110k. At this point, I went from $8/hr (roughly $16k/year) to $110k in about 10 years. I did that job for 3 years while getting additional certifications and finally getting my undergrad. By the end of 3 years in that role, I made a lateral move to climb up a different ladder. One year in that new role and I got promoted again to a role making $160k. Eight months later I got promoted again to a role making $200k. This past year I made $250k. It's still just a 9-5 with full benefits and I get to travel around every now and then for work. I'm in my mid-30s making a quarter mil salary and I get my evenings, weekends, and probably take about 8 weeks of vacations each year with my fam. This is a brag post but it's also meant to show how great a 9-5 can be, and if you're going to hustle anyways, putting that extra energy into your career development will pay drastic returns.

9-5 is rare. Most people do 9-7 or more. And even if you finish your job at 5, commuting is added from 30 mins to 1 hour. Do you still have a energy to do anything? is avoided in this video.

This is a channel glorifying the voming New World Order. Screw this channel.

So basically what you are saying is that we should stop having ambitions and be chickens and work our self out of existence for the so called overlords because it’s safer.
Nah man I prefer dying in the ditches than living like a pet.
In God I trust☝️

Median salary in turkey is 300 dollars monthly for a university graduate. Its 15 dollars per day for a 9-6 job. So 1.8 dollars per hour of work. Suicide rates are going UP in Istanbul. Its very very sad

Wasting half your day is not great, and nobody rich works for their money. All the wealthiest people in the world are providing value directly to consumers. Passive income is always better than fixed and linear income.

The problem with 9-5 is that it doesn’t pay enough for this economy for the majority of people

I’m not against 9-5 jobs. I’m against 9-5 jobs that don’t give me enough money to retire.

weakest propaganda i ever seen

Great video. A lot of your videos on the topic of "normal" jobs explicate things I've always felt (and directives I've always followed) without my being able to put them into words.

It's kind of ridiculous to say to get into a 9-5 to make top 1% money. 9-5 jobs just doesnt pay enough and by definition not everyone can be top 1% since by definition only 1% are in that category. What makes YOU think you are good enough and deserve it?

Wow slavery love it 😂

An even better idea is your 9-5 being your and your coworkers business with Worker Co-Ops !!! 🔨 9-5 jobs are needed for a functioning Society so they are good, worker exploitation on the other hand NO

Most millionaires get there with a 9-5 invest 10-15% live modest earlier & have a side hustle/hobby

You constantly leave out disabled people. People who can only work 10 or 20 hours a week. Or people who when they work will lose their benefits. Or people who can't work full-time but don't qualify for benefits either. What about them?

I love my 9 to 5 job. It helps me postpone starvation.

this contradicts the youre going to work you die video

Great for slavery you mean

Bro my mind is fucked what to do with my life as an 18 year old dude

Starting a business is the best decision I’ve ever made