Get a JOB
Getting and maintaining a JOB as a source of steady income is critical to our long-term prosperity. A Job is a tool for earning. Through having a Job we develop our spiritual work ethic, give service to the world, and we channel our Earning Power, creating both active and passive streams of income. By holding a Job, we become Trusted Servants in exchange for pay. Many Financial Underearners have, run or manage Businesses and these Businesses may underearn financially. The FUA program focuses specifically on helping Financial Underearners get and keep a JOB in a Spiritual, Prosperous and Sustainable way. Financial UA is the "get a Job" fellowship.
Many Financial Underearners actively avoid getting a Job. This is called "Work-Avoidance". Many Financial Underearners romanticize, fantasize or become obsessed with the idea of starting a business and working for themselves. This generally leads to failure as the Financial Underearner repeats and replicates their personal habits and patterns of underearning in any business they run. We estimate that running a business profitably and solvently is between 5 to 10 times more difficult than running one's own household profitably and solvently with income from working a Job. Financial Underearners also tend to become fixated on creating busyness rather than generating business. They set themselves up to be overly busy but not productive in terms of generating actual profit. The eventual outcome is that they Financially Underearn and this pattern infects all projects they touch. We recommend Financial Underearners first recover from their underearning in a sustainable and long term way by keeping and maintaining a JOB before considering starting or running a Business.
Our vision for the Financial Underearner in FUA is to help members to get a "Three Dollar Job". This metaphor describes getting a prosperous Job where a person can earn enough to pay for everything they need (to survive), and earn enough to pay for some of the things they want (comforts or luxuries), and still have enough earnings left over to put into savings (such as an emergency reserve, prudent reserve or retirement fund). It is often the case that when the Financial Underearner gets a new job it is far below being a "Three Dollar Job". These types of prosperous jobs are competitive and require specific skill-sets, tool-sets and mind-sets that the underearner does not yet possess. We find that during the journey of Recovery, the underearner can grow, learn and develop all the necessary qualities and resources to become ready to qualify for and sustainably stay employed at a "Three Dollar Job". Often underearners can take their entry level job, often called a "B" job or a "gratitude" job, and develop and evolve this job into a much more prosperous career. It is as if this underearner can grow into a pair of shoes that seemed modest at first but then the shoes become more fancy and valuable the better they are taken care of and the longer that they are worn.
The FUA suggestion for helping members get a Job is to first focus on getting a "Spiritual Job" and then make it prosperous. For example, this process may start as a job earning $43,000 and then it develops over time into a job earning $250,000. We emphasize the idea of a "Spiritual Job" because when something is Spiritual and channels Higher Power, it tends to be sustainable for the recovering alcoholic or addict. People in the disease are often unstable and unemployable. The miracle of 12 Step Recovery shows when we connect with a Higher Power and become more spiritual -- healing and transforming from being an unstable, unemployable, argumentative, disagreeable financial underearner (or alcoholic or addict) and then almost miraculously evolve into a stable, responsible, committed, dependable and highly productive worker among workers. Recovering people of this type typically have a significantly higher than average capacity for earning.
We suggest our members explore How to Get a Job using Recovery Principles under the FUA Spiritual Techniques area of the website.
Many Financial Underearners actively avoid getting a Job. This is called "Work-Avoidance". Many Financial Underearners romanticize, fantasize or become obsessed with the idea of starting a business and working for themselves. This generally leads to failure as the Financial Underearner repeats and replicates their personal habits and patterns of underearning in any business they run. We estimate that running a business profitably and solvently is between 5 to 10 times more difficult than running one's own household profitably and solvently with income from working a Job. Financial Underearners also tend to become fixated on creating busyness rather than generating business. They set themselves up to be overly busy but not productive in terms of generating actual profit. The eventual outcome is that they Financially Underearn and this pattern infects all projects they touch. We recommend Financial Underearners first recover from their underearning in a sustainable and long term way by keeping and maintaining a JOB before considering starting or running a Business.
Our vision for the Financial Underearner in FUA is to help members to get a "Three Dollar Job". This metaphor describes getting a prosperous Job where a person can earn enough to pay for everything they need (to survive), and earn enough to pay for some of the things they want (comforts or luxuries), and still have enough earnings left over to put into savings (such as an emergency reserve, prudent reserve or retirement fund). It is often the case that when the Financial Underearner gets a new job it is far below being a "Three Dollar Job". These types of prosperous jobs are competitive and require specific skill-sets, tool-sets and mind-sets that the underearner does not yet possess. We find that during the journey of Recovery, the underearner can grow, learn and develop all the necessary qualities and resources to become ready to qualify for and sustainably stay employed at a "Three Dollar Job". Often underearners can take their entry level job, often called a "B" job or a "gratitude" job, and develop and evolve this job into a much more prosperous career. It is as if this underearner can grow into a pair of shoes that seemed modest at first but then the shoes become more fancy and valuable the better they are taken care of and the longer that they are worn.
The FUA suggestion for helping members get a Job is to first focus on getting a "Spiritual Job" and then make it prosperous. For example, this process may start as a job earning $43,000 and then it develops over time into a job earning $250,000. We emphasize the idea of a "Spiritual Job" because when something is Spiritual and channels Higher Power, it tends to be sustainable for the recovering alcoholic or addict. People in the disease are often unstable and unemployable. The miracle of 12 Step Recovery shows when we connect with a Higher Power and become more spiritual -- healing and transforming from being an unstable, unemployable, argumentative, disagreeable financial underearner (or alcoholic or addict) and then almost miraculously evolve into a stable, responsible, committed, dependable and highly productive worker among workers. Recovering people of this type typically have a significantly higher than average capacity for earning.
We suggest our members explore How to Get a Job using Recovery Principles under the FUA Spiritual Techniques area of the website.
Financial UA
World Service Office
841 East Fort Avenue -- Box # 177
Baltimore, MD 21230
Email: [email protected]
phone (443) 424-8588
World Service Office
841 East Fort Avenue -- Box # 177
Baltimore, MD 21230
Email: [email protected]
phone (443) 424-8588