I read these job posts, and from an outsiders perspective, I see how most people are trained to work for money. I have tried to educate my children about how important it is to be the one who owns the corporate ladder, instead of climbing someone else's. In the world of business, companies hire individuals, but don't do business with them. Businesses do business with other businesses. That's the world I operate in. The stakes are much higher, but a company can make more money, and operate in multiple physical locations or everywhere at once ( social media platforms) while an individual is limited to their physical ability and the number of hours in a day. I'm not discouraging anybody from being an employee, without good employees a business will go out of business. I am an employee of my own company. There is a trap which lies in wait for all employees, and it plays out in an endless cycle, which goes like this: most children go to school, get good grades, graduate high school, then college, and land a high paying job with excellent benefits. Along the way they rack up college debt, and are deeply in debt before they ever get their first real job. The employee starts climbing the ladder, earning promotions and pay raises. They get married( usually) They buy a home, usually on a 30 year mortgage. They work harder. The kids arrive. Usually there's credit card and car payments, plus the mortgage and college debts. All of this is leverage to keep employees working hard, deep in debt. So what is the Trap? The typical hard-working successful employee will climb the corporate ladder and make their way into middle management with a good salary and benefits. What traps most employees is that their education( the college degree) has become old and outdated and they are very expensive to the company with their salary and benefits. They will be let go sometime between 40 & 60, replaced by a young fresh out of college graduate, or two, who will work for a fraction of the pay that the middle manager employee is being paid. The employees bills don't stop coming in though. Their bills start eating them alive, and they have to pull from retirement funds to cover what unemployment money won't. Now they realize that they need to get another job before they run out of money completely, but no company wants to pay a middle aged worker a manager level salary without a current degree. The age factor hurts also, because the company may only get ten to fifteen years of service from the older worker, versus 30-40 from a 25 year old. So the worker goes back to school while working low pay jobs until they can get a second degree that is current. I see people I know doing this now. Eventually the employee is too old to offer any upside to a company that is hiring. Most career employees have to sell their house to live after they lost their high paying job they could never get back. The best way to avoid this trap is ,well, most can't because they don't know any other way. I started my first business around age 30, and as long as my companies succeed, they will continue to pay me and my family for generations. I recommend people study business and how it works, to avoid a future where they stake their entire livelihood on a paycheck that could be taken away at any time. Sorry for the long post.