You know, after reading the Rich Dad Poor Dad series, as well as a whole set of other books, I’ve never been happy with the ‘Rat Race’.

Faithfully giving your company 8 hours or more a day so that some time in the future, you’ll become one of the bosses, where you’ll then start working 12 hours a day. haha.

But you know what? Alot of people are content with that way of life. Especially here in Malaysia.

We’re pretty content with working and working, getting a regular pay check and one day retiring. One day very very far away that is.

But that’s pretty normal in alot of other countries as well.

In Malaysia however, I feel we are guilty of one more thing, which is alot of people are scared to voice out their opinions, especially in the work place.

In most peoples’ minds, they think ‘why bother?’ or ‘nothing’s going to change anyway’ or ‘I’ll just accept it like that’.

There’s an intimidation factor that Malaysian executives have against their bosses which gets me and some of my friends pretty angry.

What they don’t realize is that if they keep quiet, their superiors are just going to get away with it over and over again.

And seeing as most people don’t stand up for themselves, when someone eventually does (and these are the people who are worth something to the company… because they have a voice) they seem like someone shouting in a library – loud and completely out of place.

So remember, if your boss is treating you like shit, instead of taking it, stand up for yourself. Sometimes, if your boss deserves to eat shit, then you should tell him to eat shit.

Hey, who else is gonna do it?

-William