Are You “Boss Whipped”? (Here’s How To Tell)
Are you willing to do anything to get a certain job, a promotion, or to even keep your job? In this article you’re going to find if you’re being boss whipped.
Getting A Job vs. Getting A Customer
I have a friend, and he has a job where he’s making seventeen dollars an hour. It’s an ok salary. It’s partially copywriting, and partially doing other kinds of stuff. We kind of found him a potential client, and the client would pay him the equivalent of thirty dollars an hour. This would be a project, and if he could do the work faster, he would get paid more.
He got the appointment with the client, and the frame he came from, was that this was like a job application, because he got used to applying for a job. He came into a business meeting, feeling like he has to prove himself, like he has to show he can deliver, maybe doing stuff for free. Of course he didn’t get it. If you come into a business meeting like that, it won’t work; you’re not going to get a client like that.
It’s not his fault that he doesn’t know how to deal with this scenario.He hasn’t learnt by the age of twenty four, because he’s been groomed to comply, he’s been boss whipped basically. Anything the boss says, he has to do it. If the boss requests he has to stay later, he’ll do that, if he has to work weekends, then he’ll do it.
How you were trained in college, or high school, was to go into a job interview to talk about your strengths and your weaknesses, and basically to comply. You were told to sell yourself, and agree with the salary they propose, or maybe ask for a little bit more.
There’s all this training that goes on, and people don’t actually learn sales from these training sessions, they learn how to get a job. To do this, you have to be a compliant little bitch basically. You have to follow step by step, what the company says you have to do, and if you don’t do it, they’ll see that you’re not selling yourself.
You’ve basically been put into this little box, and you’ll be coming from a low frame. The best deal you can get in this situation is a low paying hourly wage.
How The Employee Reality Works
A company works as follows: you have your employees, which you pay the lowest amount possible for the work that you need done, and assign them a certain task to get done, and finished.
If you want a raise, they look at your KPI’s at the end of the year, and see if you performed well, and discuss whether you deserve a five percent raise, or maybe even ten percent, if it’s a fast growing company.
There’s a supply and demand thing going on, and it’s not in your favour.
That’s in a good company, in a bad company, maybe some people just disappear, and don’t come to work anymore, because they’ve not been given a raise for two or three years. Then maybe they might give the other employees a half a dollar raise, per hour, but only to the top performers. This is the only way you can earn more money, in a company like that: you have to work your ass off for a year, and you’ll get a small raise as a token of appreciation.
Getting A Raise: The Entrepreneur’s Way
If you’re an entrepreneur, and you want to get a raise, you just improve any part of your business, and you’ll get a raise. Including if you raise your prices, and people still buy.
Congratulations, you just got a raise. If you improve any part of your funnel, and get more leads, you’ll get more sales. You’ve just got a raise; this is how it works when you run your own business. It’s completely different to working in a company, proving yourself, and doing all these little tasks over and over, till you get a five percent raise.
If you want things to go in your favour, you need to learn how to negotiate; you need to learn how to sell yourself. You need to learn skills that are valuable, that aren’t the average job skills, not sell yourself away, and give away all the power that you have.
Make A Choice
You need to start a business, and not just get a job. Getting a job is buying into a low value frame, a very low value situation. It’s not impossible, but it’s harder. You’ll have to watch videos like these, if you are in that position. Some people have the view that all this stuff is a scam, selling to businesses is a scam; it’s what all evil rich people do.
If you think like that, it’s perfectly fine: go back to your job, do your work, and kiss your bosses ass. But if you’re watching this channel, I assume you want to step up a level. I hope I’m giving you the tools to do this.
There are many skills you can learn to increase your value. Skills like copywriting, sales, web design, SEO services, and others, are very important. Not a lot of people can perform these well, but they can potentially produce a lot of value for a company, or your own business. If you can learn these skills, that’s one part of the equation.
Coming From A Higher Frame
The second part of the equation, is actually coming from the frame, that you’re not a complete underling, coming into a big building, begging to get paid a little bit. You have to be coming into a business and have the attitude that you’re taking them on as a client. You need to know that they’re qualified to work with you, you need to qualify them. You don’t just want to work with anyone, you can choose who you work with.
Make this abundantly clear, there are many techniques you need to learn. Some of them include cold calling, others include talking person to person, that’s actually convincing, and others include building up your brand, your personal brand, which is a very important skill, and maybe even develop a little bit of a celebrity status, having people come to you, instead of you going to them. This is also a very big thing, if you can do that, your value goes up; your negotiation position in a business goes up dramatically.
These are just some of the things you can work on, so you’re not going to a company, and going through the motions of applying for yet another job, where you’re just going to be in the company’s frame, and be boss whipped. If you think it’s worth starting your own company, please comment below.
