5 Reasons Why Being an Employee is Great

The Advantages of Working for Someone Else

Natalia Costa
5 min readFeb 10, 2024
Photo by Israel Andrade on Unsplash

Even though we are in the age of entrepreneurship and most of us, at some point, have felt the pressure to start something, there are quite a lot of advantages to working for someone else.

We, humans, have this tendency to focus on what we don’t have instead of focusing on what we do have. Instead of pointing out how incredible it is to have your own business and all the benefits that may come from that, today let’s place our attention on all the good that comes from being an employee.

1 — Everything is taken care of for you

If, like me, you have considered starting your own business, you know what I’m talking about: the ease that comes from having taxes and legal stuff handled for you is priceless. You don’t have to think about it, nor pay anyone to think about it for you. And that feels great!

In some countries, like Portugal, the employee only sees his/her pay receipt after all the taxes paid by the company have been handled. So, the person only actually sees what is received. It would give people quite some perspective if they could see what the company pays to employ them. All the legal stuff and taxes that are necessary to hire someone are quite a heavy load. It is a…

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Natalia Costa

Human being 🐒 Engineer by day, Poet by night ☯️ Writing about emotional intelligence A.K.A. applied quantum physics. www.bynataliacosta.com