What is a Job

Job is nothing else than selling your time to someone. You are ready to sell your time on hourly basis. The high pay you get per hour is the salary you get. Indirectly, you are selling. The company hiring you has huge money and they do not have time to do the work as there is a time limitation of 24 hours per day per individual.

To understand about job, let us consider the below scenario:

Lets us take two vessels V1 and V2.  Vessel V1 is filled with hot water and the vessel V2 with normal water.

Now, let us take a frog and put it inside hot water. The frog will feel the heat and jump out immediately.

Now, let us put the same frog on the vessel V2. As the water is in normal room temperature, the frog will swim and keep itself in the comfort zone. Later if we keep the vessel on a burner or stove, the water will boil slowly. The frog cannot feel the heat initially. Once, the water is boiled, the frog can feel the heat but cannot escape and will die.

Similar way, when we get into a job; we will be excited and keep our self in the comfort zone. Later we will be locked with lots of commitment and even if we think of getting out of the company, we will not be able to get out. We will change companies and try to increase the per hour rate. But, we will work till 60’s and retire.

Companies are applying the concept called time compounding. As they are running short of time, they are buying time from professionals and giving them money. If a company has 100 employees, each employee spending 8 hours a day, the company earns 800 hours a day. This concept is called time compounding.

Whereas the employees like you and me does not have the option to compound our time.