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Whoever has not two thirds of his day for himself is a slave, Friedrich Nietzsche insists.

What can such people derive from job? Means of subsistence, confidence in the future? Our ancestors centuries ago had this confidence not less than us. They could at least go to the kitchen garden, pick some cucumber or something else and didn't even think of starvation.

How did it come that people became Bio-Robots destined to perform somebody else??™s orders? Slaves were formerly kept by force and given a bit of food for their work. Nowadays slaves are kept by a much more powerful means, the ideology. It dwells in their minds, like a ???matrix??™ that will not let them go and make them lose belief in themselves.

Now let us look at the employers or, to put it simply, at the entrepreneurs. They are among us, ever so like anyone else, but the difference is startling. The difference is in their heads and world outlook. They bought back their freedom, confidence and responsibility long ago.

Of all the people only an entrepreneur is capable of turning an idea into profit. If money is the blood of society, the entrepreneur is definitely its heart. All the rest only exist to serve him, being otherwise unable to make a single nail. Unable is a penniless teacher, hardened by life; unable is a big-headed functionary...

They would need to change their way of thinking. And for now they trust their lives to the entrepreneur, giving away their own time in return for fixed salary. He will take risks and win, plan ahead and... pay to those who imagine themselves to be terrifically smart and indispensable. He will pay them as much as he deems necessary or nothing if he feels like it.

What are the implications, then? Should you lose your job? Do not rush to pen a CV, fret before an interview and try as best as you can to look confident. You are given a chance to pause and think about your life a little (thinking usually comes easily at such moments). You are given a chance to become free, a chance to start Your Own Trade. This is what you will need confidence for. But it??™s the only thing you need. As for the widely held opinion that one ???simply can??™t do without an initial capital??™, the entrepreneur starts from scratch and confidence. And have you no belief in yourself, any capital won't be of any use .

You may be furious. You may be inventing scores of excuses why you live like you do. You shudder at the thought of change. You prefer to slave away day after day rather than do something interesting for yourself. Indeed, it is immeasurably easier to perform petty routine tasks than get up and go, and really do something worthy.

You may be wondering who I am to be preaching like that. Let me brief you, not to sound unfounded. Majored in Math at school, I used to love physics madly, and performed chemical experiments at home. I could hardly leave the technical section at the library. Read entire Jules Verne by myself. A Poly graduate, qualified as an automaker, got a diploma with honors. Got a Soros grant, used to go to conferences. After two years of auto-making and a post-graduate degree, hell I gave up both to devote myself to my old hobby, computer programming. I quickly learned to behave properly at ???those interviews??™, what is remarkable, having no previous experience or required education. Funny as it may sound; I even had to overcome the temptation to head a team of programmers or a whole firm.

Now I am a shareware programmer. I don??™t have to ???go to work??™. It is with immense difficulty that I recollect Newton??™s laws. I do not buy a TV on principle??¦ and, catching up with friends for a beer, try to snatch a few moments to program.

And yes, when you get up before dawn tomorrow to get down to your favorite toil, I will be sleeping soundly at my place, what I sincerely wish to everyone.

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Pavel Nosikov