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If you're not willing to invest your money with your employer, why are you investing your time with them? Why work for someone or something that you don't beli
by ratg13 3y ago
If you're not willing to invest your money with your employer, why are you investing your time with them?
Why work for someone or something that you don't believe in?
I get it that many people have limited choices in life, but the readers of this forum are typically of a talent level that allows them to have more of a choice.
Don't stay working at a job you don't believe in. Life is too short.
- jerlam 3y agoInvesting your time (working) in the company gets you an immediate return - your paycheck. It has no direct bearing whether the company succeeds or not. In large companies, unless you are very high up, your individual actions have no influence on the company's stock price.
- ratg13 3y agoI used to think this.. and then 10 years went buy where I realised that I was making major contributions to the company that were benefitting them massively, and I was not buying their stock, even though I was directly responsible for their success. (regardless that I am not an executive or manager) I later realised that it only made sense to invest in every company you work for. I also was very disappointed that someone never gave me this advice, and instead I got the opposite advice that my actions don't matter. The same advice that you are trying to give now. It was bad advice then, it is bad advice now, and it is the wrong advice for this audience. The number one rule with investing is diversity. It's not like you would invest your entire portfolio with your company, so why you think it's overly concerning to invest even a small amount with a company you are intimately familiar with is beyond me.