Nobody Owes You a Job

Believe it or not, the purpose of a job isn't to be some scheme where a business charitably provides you with money, insurance, and other benefits.

A job exists because someone needs something accomplished, and you can do it for them either better, more efficiently, or less expensively than they could it themselves.

Your job is to make your boss' job easier. If your boss is spending too much time managing you or fixing your mistakes or otherwise reworking your work, or you are becoming more expensive than the value of what you provide, your boss is either going to replace you, do the work himself/herself, or not get that work done any more. Your boss hires you to free himself or herself up to do other things.

That's the way things work naturally. Regulations, laws, and union contracts may interfere with this, but do so to the detriment of progress and growth.

We all have something to offer others. They have something to offer us. Agreeing to voluntary exchange goods or services for other goods, services, or money need not require any involvement by anyone else, and most of the time outside interference shouldn't happen.

Nobody owes you a job unless they have voluntarily submitted to a contract obligating them to employ you for that length of time and you are upholding your end of the contract. You can offer something you have for something you want, and if you find someone willing to make that exchange, you can both get what you want.

When the need to do that work no longer exists for whatever reason, the job should cease. Sure, it would be nice to never have to worry about cash flow, to never have to look for another job, to never have to deal with an interruption of benefits, etc. But if your services no longer meet an existing need at the right price, the natural thing is for the job to end – at least for you.

Very rarely is that the fault of a President of the United States of America, Congress, or a business. It is just the way things are.

The solution? Make sure what you are offering makes your boss want to keep you around, or makes you valuable to some other boss.