Working for the Man (CFFL 0068)
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Jack Butala: [Jack Butala] here from Land Academy. Welcome to our Cash Flow From Land Show. In this episode Jill DeWit and I talk about working for the man. Is it bad? Is it good? I think it's both. Hey, Jill DeWit.
Jill DeWit: Hello.
Jack Butala: Hey, we both work for the man, and we are both motivated enough eventually to leave, so ... Get started by telling your experience about what was good about it, what was bad about it, and if there was anything good about it.
Jill DeWit: I have a lot to share about this.
Jack Butala: Good. Excellent.
Jill DeWit: I think my experience is different from your experience-
Jack Butala: Me too.
Jill DeWit: -because a majority of my experience working for the man was very ... What's the word I'm looking for?
Jack Butala: Painful?
Jill DeWit: Yeah. That's great. Yeah, that's one way to say it.
Jack Butala: [crosstalk 00:00:59]. Let me make one positive comment before we get into this. The worst thing, I don't care how bad your job is and how bad you want to get out of there, what you are getting out of that is incredible motivation to start your own stuff. If that's the worst thing that can happen, then you still win.
Jill DeWit: Exactly. Here's the thing. Big picture, first of all, I think about working for the man is some people are set up for it. Some people are not. Number one. Some people love consistency. They love knowing their benefits are going to be taken care of. They love, you know, they got their child care set up for their kids. They drop them off, they got to work. They know their paychecks going to clear. They can ... They know it's six months or a year. I have that. I mean, I didn't want that, but I worked in that environment and there was a time clock, everyone. I literally had to punch a time clock back ... Log in, log out of a computer. You know what I mean.
Jack Butala: No. You mean time clock.
Jill DeWit: Well, there was a time clock too at one time.
Jack Butala: Yeah.
Jill DeWit: Years ago in the nineties.
Jack Butala: Big green thing sticking out of the wall.
Jill DeWit: Oh my God. [crosstalk 00:02:19]. You know what was nice, though? You also knew that because back then pay was based on seniority, so you knew, "Oh, in one year I get this raise, and at three years I get that raise, and at nine years I max out. Blah, blah, blah."
Jack Butala: Ten years you die.
Jill DeWit: Yeah, in ten years you die.
Jack Butala: Because of that job specifically.
Jill DeWit: Pretty much. I remember going ... It was so funny because I first got that job ... I mean, I've had other jobs like this, but this is the most ... It was American Airlines. They always spelled it out as you know, they are the on-time machine, and they expected it no matter what work capacity you were in it was an on-time machine. You know? You wore a watch. There was a time that I worked there I had to wear a uniform at the ticket counter, and part of our uniform was a watch because we were also portraying an image that we are the on-time machine.
Anyway ...
Jack Butala: Do you have any pictures of that?
Jill DeWit: I do. I might still have the uniform.
Jack Butala: It's working for me.
Jill DeWit: Thank you. Oh, it's a whole other thing. Remember I did that for Halloween? One time I wore that?
Jack Butala: I do, like it was yesterday. I have some pictures of that in my phone still.
Jill DeWit: Thank you.