There are many ways to define the American Dream, but surely being your own boss is one of them.
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Definitely. Although, when I was in that situation, I often figured I had the worst possible boss.
My response to “You can be your own boss!” was always, “I wouldn’t want a boss like me OR an employee like me.” Now that I’m no longer a productive member of society, that’s all by the wayside.
“There are many ways to define the American Dream, but surely being your own boss is one of them.”
Well, yes. That’s the joke. The fact that he hasn’t understood what “American Dream” means and doesn’t realize he has achieved it is what’s supposed to be funny.
It isn’t funny. But that’s what the joke is.
Just beyond those trees is the forest.
A lawyer who represents herself has a fool for a client. A doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient. Does that mean about being your own boss?
A friend who had his own business used to say, “My boss is kind of an a**hole, but he has a liberal leave policy!”
The great thing about working for yourself is that you can work whichever 80 hours of the week you want.
I saw a bit from a franchise owner that said he went into deep debt to buy an 80-hour a week job.
Dad was self-employed as an accountant and as an attorney. (I didn’t finish law school so I only joined him in the accounting end.) He shared office space with my maternal uncle who was also self-employed (in International trade) – they did not work together, just shared the space. Dad’s 2 brothers were separately self-employed – one of them had a lunch counter in the lobby of a building in the NYC garment district – always a fun place for me to go to eat with dad as I was then too short to climb on the tall stools to sit or to reach the counter! Mom’s dad had his own business manufacturing metal cabinets – he would weld together smallish pieces of metal and after they cooled give them to me as a souvenir.
Hence why I am old and still have a minuscule tax practice of 5 clients as it is in my blood to work for myself – mostly because after all the decades between the clients and dad/me I don’t want to leave them needing to look for a new accountant – they are all older than me and I am old myself.
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Definitely. Although, when I was in that situation, I often figured I had the worst possible boss.
My response to “You can be your own boss!” was always, “I wouldn’t want a boss like me OR an employee like me.” Now that I’m no longer a productive member of society, that’s all by the wayside.
“There are many ways to define the American Dream, but surely being your own boss is one of them.”
Well, yes. That’s the joke. The fact that he hasn’t understood what “American Dream” means and doesn’t realize he has achieved it is what’s supposed to be funny.
It isn’t funny. But that’s what the joke is.
Just beyond those trees is the forest.
A lawyer who represents herself has a fool for a client. A doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient. Does that mean about being your own boss?
A friend who had his own business used to say, “My boss is kind of an a**hole, but he has a liberal leave policy!”
The great thing about working for yourself is that you can work whichever 80 hours of the week you want.
I saw a bit from a franchise owner that said he went into deep debt to buy an 80-hour a week job.
Dad was self-employed as an accountant and as an attorney. (I didn’t finish law school so I only joined him in the accounting end.) He shared office space with my maternal uncle who was also self-employed (in International trade) – they did not work together, just shared the space. Dad’s 2 brothers were separately self-employed – one of them had a lunch counter in the lobby of a building in the NYC garment district – always a fun place for me to go to eat with dad as I was then too short to climb on the tall stools to sit or to reach the counter! Mom’s dad had his own business manufacturing metal cabinets – he would weld together smallish pieces of metal and after they cooled give them to me as a souvenir.
Hence why I am old and still have a minuscule tax practice of 5 clients as it is in my blood to work for myself – mostly because after all the decades between the clients and dad/me I don’t want to leave them needing to look for a new accountant – they are all older than me and I am old myself.