What work appeals to you?
48 Days to Creative Income, Day 13
Day #12: Which of the 10 models of work appeals to you?
Blech! Sickness has sidelined Desk Coder and CubeWarrior for most of the last week. True sickness, not job sickness. That is always present.
48 Days lays out 10 categories of work. Funny because they call them “new work models”, as in new economy. But it’s funny because once again showing how much has changed in the last few years, it doesn’t really take the Internet and the technological possibilities into account. The author would argue that they do because in the new economy the same models apply, just with a change in definition. Look at the list though. It screams 1990’s thinking.
- Traditional Job
- Supervisor
- Sales Rep
- Consulting
- Franchise
- Distributorship
- Licensing
- Business Opportunities
- Personal Service
- Very Non-Traditional Work
Ok this last one is a catch all, it basically means “put anything you want here”. The funny part is the authors example is about buying rem anent fabric and selling it. That is what he considers “Non-Traditional”. Blogging? Not thought of. Affiliate Marketing, Not thought of. Basically everything here still involved traditional roles, even if they had a twist.
What appeals to me? Well, #1-#9 are so close to regular day jobs that I honestly don’t even want to consider them. #1 would be ok, if i were at a company that I enjoyed working for. A place where I was valued.
But I will have to stick to non-Traditional. But even for me, I’m not sure what I want to do. I want something different. Something that makes me interested. Something were my mind won’t be shacked and chained down by people above me who force their (bad) ideas on me.
I’m going with #10, what about you?
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