I Just Can't do the Nine to Five Thing

From being an employee, manager, independent contractor, entrepreneur, I have finally come to the conclusion that a Nine to Five J.O.B is not for me. I've tried it, quit, gotten fired, etc. and it is just not for me. Maybe it's that strong entrepreneurial spirit in me, or the fact that I cannot give an employer 8 to 10 hours of my creative mind.

I have been working in the comfort of my home for about a year and 2 months now. I LOVE IT!!!. I can schedule my time in 30 minute increments. I can schedule, commit, uncommit depending on my needs or the needs of myself, family or friends. I can be available if need be for unexpected emergencies, grandchildren, etc. See, I determined on my last nine to five that Allah(God) wanted be to make myself available for a larger whole. The job was crazy and the Masters (management style) was crazy. Can I just take a minute of your time, (well this make take 10 minutes, I haven't released enough since I quit this job (2 years ago?). Okay I was working for a third party collection agency. Granted I also had previous experience working for one of the Major credit card companies, as a collector, and then promoted to the retention dept. This later company had great benefits, incentives, vacation pay, etc. It was the job I prayed to get (and you know what they say, "be careful what you pray for". It was a great job until I ended up in the physiologist's office like 70 % of the staff. I figured out why they granted so much vacation pay, sick leave, etc. ...Because you were going to need it!!!

Okay, so let's go back to the last job I QUIT!! Yep QUIT!! Said take this job and SHOVE IT!!! Bare with me people, I'm releasing here. Now as I mentioned earlier this was a third party debt collection agency. Therefore customers were seriously delinquent. We were strongly encouraged to be mean to people, rude, some supervisors were downright fraudulent in collecting payments. The retention of employees for this company was probably around 10 % in my estimate. They hired them and fired them. Not only that but it was a call center environment, and whenever someone collected a payment, the whole office had to blow whistles, clap, scream, whatever to applaud that collectors success. Never mind you had a customer on the phone. And then there was your quota. In the midst of this madness you had to meet daily, monthly quotas. And get this, when the supervisors had an announcement to make they just screamed at the top of their lungs, (whether they were behind you, beside you, and you did were talking to a customer, It did not matter to them.) Management promoted no respect for customers or me. After about 6 months of this I said, "You know what, I am not going to participate in this madness. I did not struggle all these years to dehumanize myself.

Their firing policy consisted of calling you in the office, and while you were in the office, they packed your things, put them in a box and put the box outside the door. So when you came out of the office you were escorted out the door with or where your box was.

Which leads me back to the reason for my posting today. Now I work from the comfort of my home. I have made as much as $1600 in a two week pay period. It was hard, but I had that option to achieve it. And spent much time in my pajamas working.

So stay tuned and I'll give you some insight to finding legitimate companies that hire Independent Contractors or employees to work from home. Feel free to post and tell me why you are ready to "STOP DOING THE NINE TO FIVE THING".