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as a result. By the time we discovered our dream jobs were imaginary, it was too late. We ended up being forced into an assembly line system known as the “real” job.
     
    There were countless people you encountered along the way who could have explained the ways of the real world to you. But instead, everyone consciously decided to shield you from its harsh realities and fill your head with innumerable motivational sound bites. Your mother told you to “Work hard and you’ll go far.” Your high school valedictorian inspired you to “Pursue your dreams.” MTV proclaimed, “You can do whatever you set your mind to.”
     
    But do any of these catch phrases sound remotely applicable to the 9-to-5 lifestyle as we’ve come to know and experience it today? How many employed recent college grads do you know are “living the dream”? Most aren’t even working in their fields of study— if they have jobs at all. I’m sure the individual with the $100,000 degree in public relations is thrilled about his position as the resident coffee and copy grunt for an insurance broker.
     
    No one ever said, “Work hard so that you get better placement in the system.” Why? Because no one actually wanted you to become a corporate slave; they wanted you to fulfill their delusional expectations. And when their concepts of your dream job didn’t materialize out of nowhere, you were told that you needed to get a “real” job. Now you’re expected to forget everything you’ve ever known because you need to pay the bills. But when we can’t even get “real” jobs—or the ones we’re accepting aren’t even in our field—what does that say about the credibility of “the system”?
     
    Contrary to what you may have been told, avoiding climbing the corporate ladder does not mean you are doomed to fail in life. You define your success in this world—not your parents, mentors, or teachers. They have—or eventually will—let their fears for your security, livelihood, and well-being overshadow the core values they instilled in you. Their values are still right; but their applications of those ideals are outdated, flawed, and no longer apply to your reality.
     
    If you’re one of the tens of millions of young people who can’t even get their footing on the corporate ladder—let alone climb it—then now isn’t the time to actively keep putting your future in someone else’s hands by continuing to mail out resumes. Such an action is the equivalent of inserting a quarter into a broken arcade game, losing it to the machine, and popping another quarter in, hoping for a different outcome.
     
    This is not a job market—it is an opportunity market.
     
    Stop trying to fight your way into the system—and fight your way around it instead. If you’re wasting away at a 9-to-5 job, stop hurting yourself and your future. Paychecks come and go; but wasted time is gone forever. Rather than wasting time, money, and resources on sending out resumes or working dead-end “real” jobs to make ends meet, it’s time to refocus your energies on attaining and securing your financial independence.
     
    Never let those around you dismiss your passions and ambitions as a symptom of postcollegiate stress disorder or shrug off your contempt for the system as the ramblings of a disgruntled employee. It’s never wrong to want more, so long as you keep both feet on the ground and a level head on your shoulders. With the proper training, attitude, and dedication, you have the power to build a revenue-generating business and rise above the antiquated social conditioning that is the 9-to-5 mentality.
     
    However—if you think that just because mommy and daddy screwed you up that you’re entitled to be an entrepreneur— boy , have you got another thing coming.
     

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    No One Cares About You—Unless You Make Them Care
     
    “What are you going to be when you grow up?” This is a profound question we’re expected to answer at too young of