This episode of Radical Personal Finance will be going out on a Friday, but most likely you're

hearing me on a Monday morning, which means for most of you, you're on your way to work,

which I think is a marvelous place to be headed.

And today I'm going to share with you nine specific and important benefits of having a job.

Time to count your blessings and be grateful. And the Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host.

Thank you for being with me today. I've threatened to do this show for a while and today out of the doldrums of

entrepreneurship for me I finally am creating it and I hope you find it useful because we're going to talk about

the amazing benefits of a job. Great place to go when you're broke to work and a

job is a great way to work. On this show I have a tendency to talk a lot about

entrepreneurship. It's a common theme of the show and frankly of much of the

success literature that you read about. As I was preparing my outline for the

show I was just thinking about how this is really everywhere in a lot of the success advice and money advice and things that you hear and for good reason.

This show might be part one of a four-part series talking about the concept from Robert Kiyasaki's books regarding the cash flow quadrant.

If you're not familiar with the concept he breaks out the different approaches to income in with number one being the

E the employee quadrant number two the S being the self-employed person number, the business owner, the B quadrant,

number four, the I quadrant. And I might do a standalone show on the benefits and

and the advantages and disadvantages of each of those quadrants.

But really what his whole point in doing that cash flow quadrant

and really what the point of it seems like all success gurus is

that being an employee is a bad thing and I've probably

talked a lot about that even in this show. It's easy to overplay the benefits of entrepreneurship. Now I am firmly convinced that for me at

this point in my life it is the best path. I am enjoying the benefits and the

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