Why I am writing this piece of opinion? It is to show to
others that being employed with particular job prescription (or identity) like
being a professor or government employee is better than being a businessman.
A good friend of mine was sharing this simple but profound
thought about the importance of identity. This happens in the midst of our
petty business talk. Both of us are regular employees, earning minimum wage.
But our situation is compensated with passive income offered to us by a very
good friend of ours who is into business. Our friend is very successful in his
career as businessman.
But what transpired in our conversation is his
realization. My friend said that being employed is totally different from someone
who engaged in business alone. His thought became clear when he made a
distinction between a businessman and being employed as worker. He used me as
an example - wherever I go, I will be easily identified by anybody else as an
instructor of a certain university without identifying me with money. In short even
though i am without money, I still am called an instructor. It is because money
is not the defining factor of my being a teacher. But a businessman is not the
case. He is identified as such with money. If a businessman has no more money,
he cannot be called anymore as such.
