One of the most common complaints people have nowadays is that they have no control over their own lives. While that may well be the case, it probably always has been. However, there are different dynamics at work today than there were in the twentieth century, let alone the nineteenth. Whereas the last two centuries saw the self-employed individual being drawn into a relationship with the factory owner as an employee, whether or not he or she wished it to be so, collectivization made that a logical process. From the water power that drew weavers into early Industrial Revolution factories in Great Britain and New England, to the automobile factories that Henry Ford introduced with the revolutionary production line, there was security to be had in the weekly wage.
The Great Crash of 1929 saw the uncertainties of the capitalist system affect the United States in much the same way as such depressions had done to Great Britain in the nineteenth century, but it was only a minor glitch when taken into account with the demands made of industry throughout the world during the Second World War and thereafter during the Cold War.
Perhaps it is with the crumbling away of the Soviet Empire in the early 90s that there was a stock-taking by people in the West and many saw new technology as showing the way to a new and independent future. The power blocs were collapsing - Jugoslavia fell apart, just as East Germany fell and democracy was restored. The republics that had been under Soviet control in Eastern Europe reasserted their right to self-determination and, at the same time, cell phones became smaller and cheaper, the costs of calls became cheaper as the market began to intervene and smaller, laptop computers came onto the market, many using the cell phones to access the new medium of communication; the internet!
Now, with the current recession following the credit crunch, many people are reconsidering their futures:
One - should they return to employment and face the possibility of being made redundant again in the future, or;
Two - should they become self-employed and have the same problem that many small businesses have had to deal with during the same economic turbulence and find that they are squeezed out of business, or;
Three - opt for both solutions. Secure paid employment for the relative security that offers and, at the same time, use the benefits offered by the internet and set up a small business using a website and some advertising (often free these days) to make a little nest egg for any future rainy days.
The Great Crash of 1929 saw the uncertainties of the capitalist system affect the United States in much the same way as such depressions had done to Great Britain in the nineteenth century, but it was only a minor glitch when taken into account with the demands made of industry throughout the world during the Second World War and thereafter during the Cold War.
Perhaps it is with the crumbling away of the Soviet Empire in the early 90s that there was a stock-taking by people in the West and many saw new technology as showing the way to a new and independent future. The power blocs were collapsing - Jugoslavia fell apart, just as East Germany fell and democracy was restored. The republics that had been under Soviet control in Eastern Europe reasserted their right to self-determination and, at the same time, cell phones became smaller and cheaper, the costs of calls became cheaper as the market began to intervene and smaller, laptop computers came onto the market, many using the cell phones to access the new medium of communication; the internet!
Now, with the current recession following the credit crunch, many people are reconsidering their futures:
One - should they return to employment and face the possibility of being made redundant again in the future, or;
Two - should they become self-employed and have the same problem that many small businesses have had to deal with during the same economic turbulence and find that they are squeezed out of business, or;
Three - opt for both solutions. Secure paid employment for the relative security that offers and, at the same time, use the benefits offered by the internet and set up a small business using a website and some advertising (often free these days) to make a little nest egg for any future rainy days.
To see more of this in detail, go to http://www.4-a-job.com which gives you all the tools to secure a salaried job, but which also gives heaps of down-to-earth information sources to set up an online business of your own. (oh - and there's a free book to download when you click on this site. It's called, 'Internet Business for Newbies'). It's yours to keep.
Drew Gray is the author of a number of websites and ebooks online. Most of his publications relate to businesses which are internet-related and of which he has several years of experience.
Drew Gray is the author of a number of websites and ebooks online. Most of his publications relate to businesses which are internet-related and of which he has several years of experience.
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