You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. (Psalms 128:2, NIV)
For most of human history, this was obvious. You worked and you prospered.
Now when someone “loses” a job, they become “unemployed”. The implication is normally fairly dire. This newly minted non-employee is caught on their back foot. No money means no food, no shelter, certain death.
But it doesn’t mean that. Not at all. Look closer. The non-employee didn’t lose anything. His old boss lost a producer.
Employment is supposed to be an expression of work. Instead it has become a false embodiment of it. When we believe the consequence of unemployment is inevitable poverty or ruin, it means that we forgot (or were never taught) that we use employment only as a means to accomplish work.
Concisely, work is essential to thriving and surviving.
Employment is optional. And a privilege granted to one’s employer by the worker.
Employment is fragile. It depends on the approval of people who may or may not know what they are doing. Work is entirely in one’s control.
Once you understand this, you can become Unfirable. You can dominate at your job. You’ll always have the next job loaded and ready. Prosperity will be yours.
When you’re Unfirable, you’re working. Being employed is just a weird side effect.
Ready to make yourself Unfirable? Learn more here.
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Revisions
03-14-2026: Initial post.