MAYBE YOU SHOULD QUIT BEFORE YOU'RE FIRED!

Associated Press - July '95: "A federal commission painted a grim picture of a fast-changing American workplace...the traditional pattern of lifetime jobs with a single employer is growing less common as firms increasingly hire more part-time and temporary workers to reduce labor costs." Secretary of Labor Robert Reich : "The American workplace has undergone extraordinary transformations over the last few decades and will be evolving still more dramatically in the future. Many of our notions about worker-management relations were made for a 1930's world, not the 21st century."

Sound like strange advice?
More and more workers are following this path and finding new wealth and freedom.

Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business? Or maybe you're just plain fed up with the same old daily grind - fighting traffic, going back and forth to work day in and day out (the proverbial 9 to 5 "rat race") - not to mention the increasing uncertainty about the future of your job. (USA Today 03/02/99)

A recent Yankelovich, Skelly and White poll showed that 1 out of 3 people would love to say "Goodbye" to their daily commute to work - and 7 out of 10 would like to start their own business.

It's no surprise. Americans are fed up with broken promises and unfulfilled contracts. Rational people are no longer willing to accept that CEO's are getting 30% raises while massive layoffs are occurring.

In 1985, approximately 100,000 people were employed in a $24 billion industry manufacturing vinyl records - those familiar 33 1/3 rpm discs most of us grew up with. Virtually all of that number were displaced as the digital compact disc swept the music industry by 1990. Who in 1985 could have foreseen that a 100 year old industry which flourished through two world wars would literally vanish in just a few years?

Thousands of other similar technological changes caused the displacement of 20 million blue collar workers in the 1980s. It became socially acceptable in the U.S. to fire workers in outdated occupations, rather than to keep and retrain. Technology moves so fast today that changes which used to occur in fifty years now occur in five.

And today, in the '90s, technology is evicting white collar workers with the same indifference.

Thousands of companies have found that in a rapidly changing world they can no longer afford to honor their unwritten contract to take care of the employees who used to take care of them. It is projected that soon 50% of the population will be employed on a part-time only basis.

It may have been sufficient for our parents and grandparents to go back and forth to the same job day after day, year after year, but for the Boomers and the Generation-Xer's, this doesn't satisfy the longing for fulfillment, challenge, and especially quality of life by most people today. Today's forward-thinking people are looking at non-traditional entrepreneurial ventures to fill the emotional gaps left by corporate fat-trimming, hostile takeovers and mergers.