Hi guys! So I want to talk to you about your corporate jobs. Maybe you are not doing a corporate job, but some other job… a job that you hate. A job you do to earn money – it’s sucking the life out of you, and you’re not sure how you can keep doing it. I want to talk to you about some things which can help you to keep going if you are in this scenario (until your escape)… If you are a woman who wants to escape the corporate hell, this article is aimed at helping you… let’s get straight into it!
Some things which can keep you going while you are waiting to escape the corporate hell as a woman…
If you are desperate to escape the corporate hell, you want to have a plan for your self – an exit plan. On this blog I help women learn to trade and invest in the stock market. If you are terrified of trading, you can be more of a passive investor rather than trader and it will still provide you with an exit plan from your corporate hell job. Investing will take a long time – I know what you are thinking! But here’s the thing… do you want to be someone who is completely free in ten years’ time, or someone who is still STUCK IN THE CORPORATE HELL in ten years time? Imagine that!
Those ten years will go by either way. You are going to get there. You will go through those ten years no matter what. At the end of those ten years, you will either be Sarah or Marylin who still works in her awful corporate job or you will be someone who took control ten years ago and freed yourself.
I’ve given advice on my youtube channel and other blog articles about how long it will take for you to become a guaranteed millionaire. Here’s a link to my youtube video on this:
You just need a plan for yourself and you need to stick to it with complete discipline. When you have that plan in your head, it helps you to keep going. The office politics and garbage which goes on in your corporate hell job, where men take credit for your work and you need to work three times as hard as them to get half of the recognition and pay….all of this garbage which goes on and consumes your energy, will no longer be relevant. You will surpass these people. In ten or twenty years time, they will just be distant memories. You will look back and laugh. So i’m guessing after listening to the above video, you now have a plan in mind about investing and your exit/escape, and at what point your exit can literally happen – a guaranteed date in the future, based on the rate at which you can invest.
Some things which can help you on your journey…
Let’s talk about the things which can help (or hinder!) you… I’ve been there, in all walks of life – I used to have a Central London job, commuting on the train every day… each morning, I would buy a latte and a croissant from Costa Coffee… in those days it used to cost about £4 or £5 per day. That was over ten or 15 years ago. These days it’s probably costing a lot more. If I told you how much this would cost over a ten year period, in lost investment opportunity, (or 20 years – even worse!), you may be very horrified… Let’s take a look:
Ten years of spending £5 per day on a coffee and snack in the morning will set you back c.£29,000 in lost investment earnings at an assumed stock market return rate of 15%. Please see the Compound Interest Calculator website, as explained in my above video!
Twenty years of spending £5 per day will cost you a whopping £162k….
Yes, you read this correctly.
One hundred and sixty two thousand pounds, over a twenty year period – on croissants and coffee.
At that point in time, if you had accumulated those funds in the stock market, the return (and therefore, yearly income) would be £162k x 15% = £25k per year, annual income.
So let’s sum that up… if you choose to put your £5 per day into an investment account and keep doing it for 20 years, you will have achieved a capital balance which would be enough to live on in some countries – example, it can cost 1,000 euros per month in living expenses in some of the European countries like the Greek islands, Portugal etc. Half of your annual income on your saved coffee money. You would live like a king in Thailand or somewhere similar I bet!
That could be an escape right there – without any further effort on your part! OR… You could have your coffee and snack on your way to your big corporate hellish job, every day, for the rest of your life/till you retire and always be trapped in that? Which would you prefer? This is just the coffee and croissant money – I’m expecting you might be able to spare a bit more than that, and get your £1m by the time you quit the corporate hell – then you can literally do whatever the hell you like, and live wherever you want.
Don’t forget, you can always buy a multi pack of croissants from Aldi each week and just take one with you! It doesn’t need to be complete suffering and austerity! Get yourself a lovely travel mug and take a nice coffee with you as well! This is also better for the environment so an added bonus! Obviously this lesson does not just relate to coffee – are you spending money on other things which can be avoided and the money invested instead? Lottery tickets? Newspapers? Cigarettes? Chocolate bars from the Central London shop instead of buying a muti pack from Tesco with the weekly shop? The list is endless of where you could find money to invest.
Make the corporate hell worth it…
Hear me out on this…It’s never going to be enjoyable, but overall, you want to make the hellish nightmare of a corporate job worth it in some way – for yourself. You want to be doing it, for YOU… Not your boss, not the employer, not the business. If you use the money in a smart way and built wealth and an escape route you can justify having to deal with it. It is way less justified when you spend the money on coffee and croissants and it’s causing you to be trapped in that nightmare, FOREVER.
A word on switching the corporate hell in one job, for another
So we’ve discovered we always want to have our ‘plan’ in mind while we are putting up with the corporate hell. Another issue I want to talk to you about, is ‘moving jobs’. Sometimes it’s easy to think “if I get a new job, everything will be fine” I can almost guarantee you, it won’t be. The grass will not be greener. You will get the same sorts of issues with different people and managers. All of the jobs are expecting you to work free overtime to sustain the activities of the business. It’s corruption at it’s finest. Tesco is not expected to give out free food, but for some reason, employees are expected to do free overtime and charity work for their employer…This will be the same in any job.
Here’s a reason you might want to actually move though:
- Your boss is a complete narcissist and it is literally destroying you, and is becoming very toxic emotionally for you – it’s way beyond normal corporate hell issues;
- If they are not paying you the market rate for your experience. This can happen if you are in a job for a long time, through lack of pay rise/inflationary rises. This second issue will affect your ‘plan’ because you will need to work longer to get there. So if your rate of pay is negatively affecting your plan, this would be a good reason to move.
If the issues you have in work are the bog standard, free overtime required, your boss is annoying, you have men trying to undermine you as a woman in the work place, my suggestion is you just stay there and invest more heavily and in the back of your mind, laugh at them. Laugh at the fact that you are on your way out, literally, and Derek and Bryan will still be d*ck measuring for a measly 3p per hour promotion in the office, when you are long gone.
So, to sum up, if you want to escape the corporate hell, you need to TAKE CONTROL. Make a wealth building journey ‘plan’. Work out exactly how much you need to invest regularly to become a millionaire. Write down the plan and commit yourself to your escape route. This is 100% doable. This is how the wealthy people became wealthy – by investing in the stock market.
You do not need a lot of knowledge to become a passive investor – you could put a set amount from your salary into one of the indices like the S&P 500 which is the average of the top 500 stocks in America and just leave it there and watch it grow!
Let’s generate wealth independently, together!
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