CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
How to Be an Employee
MOST WORKERS TODAY ARE employees and will be all their working lives, working for somebody else and for a pay check.
Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years ago only one out of every five Americans at work was employed, that is, worked for somebody else. Today the ratio is reversed, only one out of five is self-employed. And where fifty years ago “being employed” meant working as a factory laborer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middle-class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring intellectual and technical ...
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