I'll admit it. I woke up a few years ago and after years of wearing out my tires and myself, being in road sales and working long hours to see my boss go on vacation, I slowly but surely became jaded. I felt I had been duped. It all started with the schooling system...since
my 80's school days were not privy to the internet and the leverage it affords us, I excuse my teachers and school mentors for promoting the "you need a JOB" mentality. But it's my opinion that mantra is failing us now tremendously. Instead of learning VALUABLE life lessons, students are doing irrelevant projects. I think back to my kids' school days and I remember the frustration I felt when my kids, upon reaching their senior year, were supposed to have a college preparatory course, yet when when I asked them about a particular college course's cost per credit, they did not know what "cost per credit hour" was or what FAFSA is. Now of course I was able to tell them what a credit hour was, but I'm just making the point that in my kids school, there was a lack of equipping them with vital knowledge. Of course, there are a multitude of skills & concepts I feel students do not receive in school; such as goal-setting, business development and how to be self starting , motivated individuals who are more inclined to desire being "self-supervised" individuals. Instead, we're duped to think all we have to do is graduate from college with a lot of education (and debt), forget our own dreams, get a good "job", submit ourselves to 8 hour days [often trapped in a cubicle] and hopefully climb the corporate ladder, ... personally, after years of seeing where that was not getting me, I wanted out.
my 80's school days were not privy to the internet and the leverage it affords us, I excuse my teachers and school mentors for promoting the "you need a JOB" mentality. But it's my opinion that mantra is failing us now tremendously. Instead of learning VALUABLE life lessons, students are doing irrelevant projects. I think back to my kids' school days and I remember the frustration I felt when my kids, upon reaching their senior year, were supposed to have a college preparatory course, yet when when I asked them about a particular college course's cost per credit, they did not know what "cost per credit hour" was or what FAFSA is. Now of course I was able to tell them what a credit hour was, but I'm just making the point that in my kids school, there was a lack of equipping them with vital knowledge. Of course, there are a multitude of skills & concepts I feel students do not receive in school; such as goal-setting, business development and how to be self starting , motivated individuals who are more inclined to desire being "self-supervised" individuals. Instead, we're duped to think all we have to do is graduate from college with a lot of education (and debt), forget our own dreams, get a good "job", submit ourselves to 8 hour days [often trapped in a cubicle] and hopefully climb the corporate ladder, ... personally, after years of seeing where that was not getting me, I wanted out.
What about you? Are you fulfilled in your job? Are you earning what you want and how you want to earn it? I was not...not only was I unhappy with my earnings, I was also unhappy with the confines of office/cubicle life. I wanted to explore the world or just enjoy my first cup of coffee in my own home, not hamster trailing through traffic jams, running from point A, to point B, to point C, to point D, back to A again. I was dizzy from all the rushing.
What are your desires?
What are your desires?
- Are you happily employed?
- Do you enjoy working for someone else?
- Or do you have a burning desire to work for yourself to reap the rewards of your labor?
I'd love to hear from you. Are you working on your own thing... or do you love your boss, and a 9-5?
For now, enjoy the little joke below.
