DailyJim: Creating the jobs we want to exist: from crowdfunding to crowdemployment

Hello everyone welcome to another daily gym today is monday september 23rd 2024, and what i want to talk about today is creating the jobs we want to exist, from crowdfunding to crowd employment so the concept of this came uh just yesterday i believe it was um people have really challenged the work that i do um or at least the business model that I do asking people for money. They're like, you shouldn't ask people for money. You should charge for your services. And then I thought, you know, most people, at least in the U.S., but probably around the world, are employees. They work for somebody. And what that often means is that they work at a company, they have one employer, and that the employer pays them money to do services for the employer.

So most people maybe negotiate their rate once a year, maybe, maybe more often or maybe less often, but most of the time they are helping other people or helping people within the organization for free. And I started thinking about this and I was like, well, maybe I've been framing this the wrong way because if I go from helping, like I want to help a lot lot of people, then how does this model work? Okay, well, if I go from being an employee of a company to being self-employed in the U.S., the definition of being self-employed or an independent contractor is working for multiple employers, providing services to multiple employers. Actually, if someone is providing only to one employer, then it can be considered kind of a breach of employment law because there are certain protections if you are an employee of a specific organization.

So being an employee is providing services to one individual or organization. Being self-employed is providing services to a few individuals or organizations and receiving payment from those few individuals or organizations.

So what is the option if we are providing many services or services to many individuals and organizations and being paid by many services and organizations?

There's not really an option. So I started thinking about how crowdfunding works, and crowdfunding isn't really set up for that. Crowdfunding is set up for maybe a project that somebody is trying to launch on Kickstarter or Indiegogo, and often the people who are paying are early customers. These are people who are pre-paying for a product, and once the product is made, they get the product, and they get it at a discounted price. Now you have other crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe. GoFundMe is when people typically have some type of financial emergency. It can be a medical emergency. It could be a going to school emergency. Sometimes it can be a dream, but often very project-based. And I think friends and family contribute to these to help somebody go on this specific project. But more often than not, it's to help somebody who's really struggling in like a tough emergency financial situation. And then there's another platform, Patreon. And the idea about Patreon is that artists can have their fans support them. And so artists will do YouTubes, they'll do podcasts, they'll do animations, things like this. And people who are fans of the work will subscribe and contribute money. And often that contribution is to achieve a certain level of access to the creator, whether that's behind the scenes access or whether it's a special podcast or whether that's, you know, sometimes even swag, like getting things in the mail, et cetera, et cetera. So that's kind of fans supporting creators or artists that they are fans of. But I started thinking like, what if there were a way to support, the jobs that we wished existed in the world. That if there are certain things that we want done, there are certain services we want performed in the world, and they're not being performed right now. Or people are performing them right now, but they're not being paid to do them.

And I started to think about myself, because I think a lot of people look at what I've done over the years and go, oh, you're just sitting around, you're just twiddling your thumbs. I am doing a lot of stuff. And over the years, people have asked me, what's your business plan? I'm like, I don't have a business plan. They're like, but you need a business plan. I say, I don't need a business plan. They say, you need a business plan. I say, I don't need a business plan. Well, how are you going to make money? And then I thought, well, what if instead of writing a business plan, I could write a job description? What if I could write the job description not only of what I am doing, but what I want to do? And why I think it's important. important?

What if by writing this job description, I can find other people who believe that it is an important job and they believe in my ability to do that job?

What other jobs could we create if we could collectively pool our resources to fund these jobs, to pay people to do these services for us and for other people?

How could that change society if we no longer had to wait for an organization to pay somebody to do a specific job, that we didn't have to wait for certain structures to come about out for us to pay somebody to do a specific job. Or if sometimes these jobs are much bigger than what we can pay for, we could collectively pool our money to pay for somebody to do a job. So yes, I can talk about my situation, but I can also think of other people. I have a very good friend of mine who worked on this technology. And it was a technology like a medical space that It really helped a lot of people, but it was open source. It was free.

And he had some serious medical issues and had to get a job at a really nice company so that he could get the health insurance. What if people like that could work on the really powerful open source software to help people in the medical community? Or people could create these new jobs. Like, for example, me, I want to go around and I want to work and train people in emotional combat. I want to train people on how to deal with conflict, emotional conflict, and come back to loving each other and just get really good at rejection and guilt tripping and being ignored and complimented and all these things and keep fighting for love.

Which organization is going to pay me for that? Maybe there would be one, maybe. But why do I have to wait for an organization to pay me? What if we started looking at this as almost, you know, you have early stage startups, early stage companies, maybe early stage nonprofits as well, organizations. But what about early stage jobs? Jobs that don't really exist yet, but we can start making them exist. We can start funding them. We can start paying people to do these jobs already. ready. And then maybe over time, individuals continue paying, or maybe organizations say, hey, we want to pay. This may be one specific organization. For example, I was thinking, you know, if I'm going around and I'm traveling to Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Germany, Romania, Cyprus, different parts of the US, and doing this, running workshops, trainings, meeting with people, connecting on a deep level, demonstrating, having podcast episodes, really just getting into the community, connecting with people, and fighting hard to bring more love to the community.

Why couldn't the United Nations or somebody create a position for that? What if we had more people going around the world doing things like this? What if we had an organization like the UN or, who knows, like International Refuge, like IRC, doing things like this? These are jobs that organizations could eventually pay for, maybe. But in the moment, in the beginning, when it's a new concept for a job, who funds it? Or when it's a job, when people are providing services to many, many individuals and organizations, who funds it? Who pays for these services?

Should we expect one organization to do it? What if there were a way for people to actually pay and make sure that these jobs happen by people who are really good at them? Because you know you could come up with a job, but not match it to the right individual because maybe that individual has certain salary requirements and they can't make that sacrifice in their life or they're unwilling to make that a sacrifice.

What if we started to figure out the services we want done in this world and pay people to do them?

Collectively, together.

So I hope you hear this. I hope you may be reinvigorated for your life. I hope you feel some hope and inspiration for your life. I also hope that you take a second and think, do you find value in the work that I'm doing? That's the podcast. That's one-on-one conversations I have with people. That's training and emotional self-defense and emotional combat skills. That's giving talks, that's visiting organizations in Uganda and Tanzania and Germany and connecting with people in these places. If you find what I do valuable and you think that somebody should be doing this job and you think I do that job well, please check out jimklyber.com slash helping slash, oh gosh, hashtag with dash crowd employment.

Oh God, that's long. Just go to the bottom of the page and you'll find it. But please, let's start supporting the jobs we wish existed in the world and supporting the people that we want to do those jobs. Because if we start doing that, then maybe we can actually transform the society and not wait for big organizations to do it for us. Alright, talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.