Key Points:
- It's always a good thing to take time off from your job to relax and focus on your side hustle.
- Taking a vacation can inspire new online business ideas that'll motivate you to reserve paid web hosting and have a stand alone WordPress blog installed on your Web server to work on it as your passion project.
- Regardless of your college degree "Bachelors, MBA, Ph.D, J.D. or Ed.D," there's still no job security. True job security, believing in yourself and starting a side hustle.
It's so easy to get burned out working for someone else when you have to wake up in the morning and start a job at a certain time. A job requires you to report to work in the morning on a set schedule whether you like it or not. That's the downside of working for someone else. And when you work for someone else, you often experience feelings of "burnout." Burnout is something millions of employees throughout America continue feeling today by working for someone else. Not just working for someone else, but working overtime. And sometimes, working off the clock without potential extra pay in order to get a project done and keep their jobs.
CNBC.com has an amazing story about this woman who works for Automattic. If you don't know already, Automattic.com is the parent company of WordPress. WordPress is the semantic blog publishing platform that has two sides to it. WordPress.com is the free blogging side where bloggers can create a free WordPress account and start publishing content "without having 100% administrative control and not having the ability to add advertisements to your blogs from affiliate networks." Then, there's the self hosted version of WordPress; the version of WordPress that you install on your paid Web server either yourself or by your web hosting provider. A self hosted version of WordPress on your Web server allows you to have complete control and functionality over everything pertaining to your blog. Blogging is a great way to build up your passion project online while experiencing feelings of burnout.
The WordPress-Automattic company allows this employee to have three months off paid. What would you do if your job allowed you to take off for three months and collect a full paycheck? Would you try to overcome feelings of burnout by starting up a side hustle by launching your self hosted WordPress blog and trying to make money in affiliate marketing? Would you virtually break the bank by purchasing a travel package and traveling as you please, risking going broke? What would you do if your job offered you 90 days off with a full paycheck?
The first thing you need to do if your job offers you three months full pay vacation is:
Improvise a plan for your future exit by drawing up an online business plan. The simplest way to get started drawing up an online business plan is by believing in yourself and starting a side hustle by acquiring a domain name, paid web hosting, and launching your self hosted WordPress blog on your paid web server. Blogging with WordPress is the simplest way to get started online with content marketing and positioning yourself to make money online years to come. Job security is no more in today's world we live in.
Second thing you need to do after you return to the job from your vacation is:
If your team leader, operations coordinator, vice president, or assistant vice president approaches you toward the end of your shift and asks you to work overtime, respectfully reject the offer. The reason why you want to reject the offer is because you want to suppress feelings of burnout. And besides, you've probably been experiencing feelings of burnout for quite some time. When you work overtime for your employer, you're virtually putting yourself more and more into "employee bondage." You're committing yourself more to the employer and making them "really really rich," trading more of your personal time for money.
Refusing to work overtime allows you more leeway to work wonders side hustle passion projects, by creating more content for your self hosted WordPress blog. Respectfully refusing to work overtime also gives you time to creatively strategize how you pull and to earn more traffic to your blog by building and sustaining meaningful relationships between yourself and your target blog reading audience.
Third thing you need to do if offered a fully paid three-month vacation:
Don't go on a shopping spree. Always remember that you're still at the mercy of your employer, even on vacation. With that said, monies that are electronically transferred into your bank account you should be looking to the future through some investment means. Investing in your online-based side hustle, looking into investing in the promotion of your blog through paid advertising on Google AdWords, Taboola.com, OutBrain.com, or Ads.Microsoft.com. Investing in your blog through PPC ad services "especially when your blog is monetized with affiliate advertising" will not only put you in the grand position to get more eyeballs to your blog and get more blog readers-RSS subscribers, but paid advertising will also help your blog potentially earn steady streams of passive income for years to come. This is one of many reasons why you shouldn't go on a virtual shopping spree if you're offered a fully paid three-month vacation from your job.
Always remember that a job means "just over broke." It's never too late to get started with a blog and building your online business from the ground floor up.