I have a longtime friend who lives in a small town and works for the biggest employer in that town.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He told me how trapped he feels and how he basically has to go along with whatever is in the best interests of that company.<\/span><\/p>\n There are local issues with the school, other businesses, politicians and senior executives at the company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But my friend feels stifled from expressing his personal opinions and speaking up, even on seemingly unrelated issues, because of the politics inside his company.<\/span><\/p>\n One of his big problems is that a difficult member of the local school board is the wife of an executive where my friend works.<\/span><\/p>\n So my friend has to be careful what he says. To anyone. Because words can work there way back to people that are in a position to make life difficult, or who might even find a way to have his position eliminated or make him so miserable he just quits.<\/span><\/p>\n On top of all that, there is a corporate culture he hates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The company is an 800-lb gorilla in the local community and the management acts like it. They bully people. Plus, there are internal factions and petty backstabbing as a means to curry favor and move up in the hierarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n That stuff makes my stomach turn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On top of everything else, it\u2019s just a dumb, inefficient way for people to spend their finite life energy.<\/span><\/p>\n You can guess what my advice to him is.<\/span><\/p>\n And It\u2019s Only Getting Worse<\/b><\/p>\n Social media has made a lot of places a \u2018small town\u2019 where what you say to one person or a small group of people can be repeated to the whole community. Stating your opinions on the weekend can get you fired on Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And even if it doesn\u2019t get you fired, it can get you branded as someone who isn\u2019t on the right team philosophically.<\/span><\/p>\n The tangible impingement happens when all of the above starts to have a measurable financial impact on your future, not to mention the emotional stress of not being allowed to be yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the online business world – if you are inclined – you can reveal your personal values, you can not conform to what most people might think, and you can still thrive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That can be priceless.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking for myself, I have strongly held beliefs regarding the paramount value of the human individual over the collective desires of politicians. And that\u2019s easy to establish from what I\u2019ve written publicly. I don\u2019t need to hide it.<\/span><\/p>\n I happen to be in a tiny minority of people who don\u2019t support political efforts to control all of us by force.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t admire the politicians who are Democrats or Republicans in the US, Tories or Labour in the UK, or are with the Liberal or Conservative Party in Canada, to name three countries where I\u2019ve lived.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve never wished that one of my kids would grow up to be just like Senator Pander or Congresswoman Coercion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Those are my opinions (among many) and it\u2019s not necessary for me to hide them or lie about them in order to stay employed or to get a promotion. I can build my own financial future without the constraints of local conformity.<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s a podcast from The Expat Money Show<\/a> <\/strong>where Mikkel and I talk about safely leaving the rat race by starting an online business!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n When you own your own <\/span>nano-economy<\/span><\/a>, you only need a relative handful of prospects and customers out of the 8 billion spread about the earth. So you don\u2019t have to conform to the whims of a small town mentality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Your online customers only care that you deliver value to them and do what you say you will do. You have the direct control to make those people happy customers who are eager to pay.<\/span><\/p>\n Odds are, not a single one of them lives in your town anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, you are not beholden to any local interests, or an employer\u2019s special interests, or the political views of the local majority, or other unwanted external pressures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can be as free as possible to speak your mind, resist conformity, and even deliberately build an online community of people you deem to be likeminded and hold a similar morality.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, it\u2019s not a license to be a jerk. Nobody likes a jerk under any circumstances. But it does remove the stress of having to conform to other people\u2019s agendas and priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Traditional, old-economy employment often comes with a lot of strings. Sometimes those strings require oppressive conformity that can extend outside our work environment and even into our personal lives. When we leave the rat race and own and control our own source of income, we achieve freedom from that conformity.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Are you ready to live life on your own terms \u2013 create your own online income? Reach out to us at <\/span>Safely Leave The Rat Race.<\/span><\/a> We are committed to helping you get from whatever point you are right now \u2013 to the point of earning regular, predictable online income while living wherever you want.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I hope you enjoyed Escape to Freedom #7: Freedom From Conformity. In case you missed them, here are<\/strong><\/p>\n #6: Freedom To Travel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n #5 – Freedom Of Income<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n #4 – Freedom to Create<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n #3 – Freedom of Time<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n #2 – Three Levels of Expat Online Income<\/a> and <\/strong><\/p>\nYour People Are Inside Online Niches<\/b><\/h2>\n
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