Why 40?

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

George Bernard Shaw 

Now we settle in to being shopkeepers.

7 days a week,52 weeks a year.

You know what they say about entrepreneurs; someone who works 80 hours a week to avoid working for a 40 hour a week paycheck.

Just to be clear, the grand plan does not include us being here every waking hour of every one of those days.

Nor does it mean that we will all be here every minute this place is open.

For now, in the early stages of this new venture's infancy, we are following the W.I.T. program.....Whatever It Takes.

Eventually, like water, scheduling will find it's own level.

However, all of this work and effort has me wondering, why a 40 hour work week?

When did that become the model for success?

Getting ahead in life takes more than that.

Somewhere along the way, people have bought into this complacency and believe that 40 hours a week is good enough.

It never was and it never will be.

I hear a lot lately about raising the minimum wage.

How about raising the minimum work out put?

There are plenty of jobs to be had.

I believe in supply and demand.

If there are more jobs than there are people to fill them, business owners have hard choices to make.

Wages like any other commodity will find their appropriate level naturally.

I hear the argument "how do you expect someone to raise a family on minimum wage?"

I don't.

I expect people to wait until they can afford to have that family before staring one.

I believe that if you have a family, you get with the W.I.T. program.

Nothing in life is a given....you want more, go get more.

I would love a getaway home.

I just wouldn't buy one and expect to just get a wage to allow me to have it.

IF I work hard enough, maybe that will happen.

I am the only one who can make that happen.

One thing I know for sure, it will take more than 40 hours a week to get there.

Shavua Tov!