#UNEMPLOYMENT: DO WE REALLY NEED JOBS?

“I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.”…Jarod Kintz

Look around you

I know, it either sounds like a dim-witted or a rhetorical question right? (Yeah right!), perhaps a quarter of the entire world are unemployed and here we are apparently speaking grammar and reducing countless precious lives to facts, figures, pizza-sized pie charts and chocolate-like bar charts, where government enthusiastically release scary statistics of unemployed population, yet provide feigned drastic approach, so much for a presumed sane, negatively stereotyped and culturally flawed and imperfect world that we have to adapt to creatively or weakly. Interestingly, considering relativity, reversal psychology and paradigm shifts, anyway you look at it, you may actually be right, look around you, life is probably perfect.

“People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty…George Orwell

Are you busy?

Did you have any busy body friend while growing up…who didn’t? That is if you weren’t actually one yourself, anyway, remember how a pain in the ‘you know what’ it was? More like getting into very ‘unprofitable’ venture, I could still without guilt give the bumble bee more credit, at least it supplies us with blessed honey which is more than useful to humanity.

My point? The world is full of bunches of potentially multi-talented critics that usually maintain a standpoint for the optimal goal of being vaguely relevant, perhaps due to a pressure on their egos for being or feeling remotely inferior and eventually incompetent, for instance, how many critics do you know that actually made a point and a good living and you choose as a role model? I can’t think of any.

They get busy quite alright, more like wasting precious time identifying problems without actually balancing the equation by finding solutions, this makes them destructive critics. It’s like it’s hard to build a house, so if you actually want to do it then put your back to it and completely get the job done, not stop midway, make someone else look bad and drool over spilled juice or whatever.

Global Issue

Each time there is an international crisis and it is so very well announced on cable news, I get a mischievous smirk hanging freely upon my face, seriously, they actually think that we haven’t actually figured it out yet?

Where do we start to outline global issues and not stop to throw a hiss of it….is it security first of, guns and ammo manufacturing, drugs use and trafficking, trades and investment, manufacturing, money laundering, unfairly stringent economic policies and so much more?

“The problem of getting a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich”…Robert Kiyosaki

There was this very fine article I saw some time ago titled ‘The Emigrant’s attitude’. It kind of outlined the maximum commitment that emigrants put into their work and hustle perhaps because they have literally burnt their bridges while travelling to chart a new course in an unfamiliar territory, working round the clock to earn a good living and reasonable savings, exploiting opportunities that even the true citizens fail to take advantage of.

All of that for what? right? Here, there is a valid opportunity to have a pretty much bigger picture, the desire to actually become rich, rich in a sense however as you’d predict I’ll admit is awesomely relative.

Well, it gets better as a school of thought naturally brings a twist to the story in such an explanatory way. Poor guys keep churning out resume’s while rich folks design and present proposals. This means it is imperative to emphasize the big picture, having intention to do great things all the way, that way you inspire your successors in this world to surpass your big dreams record.

Some folks are not overtly ambitious for lots of material wealth, perhaps it makes them uncomfortable, or maybe they’ve had a near death experience which makes them realize that a life with so much frivolities and overbearing luxury is not at all as worth it as it seems so much that they give most of their wealth away when they start to feel apparently crazy, and so they seek peace, in quiet places which is now actually expensive by the way.

“Some people work to live, and other people live to work. Then some people, like me, are both unemployed and alive (at least at the time of this writing)”…Jarod Kintz

Want to work or just get rich?

Be true to yourself, if you had a billion dollars would you ever work again? You don’t have to tell me the answer, rather you should tell yourself the answer, that way you cannot lie to yourself.

My answer to that question would be, in as much as I’d have as much fun as can be, I’d still work anyway, even if my work would be planning and creatively investing my mysterious pot of gold, it’s just that there might be a slight problem.

Ever heard of ‘self-concept’? Technically it’s the mental image or perception that one has of oneself. It is also called self-identity and it’s a collection of beliefs about oneself that includes elements such as academic performance, gender roles, sexuality and racial identity. So by implication, the proportionality of this to my new found wealth will determine if I will well utilize the money or go ahead to unconsciously destroy it, my choice.

“When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team”…Robert Kiyosaki

Are you employed?

So do you have or want to get a job? I know what you’re thinking, is this guy stupid or crazy, who’s going to pay the bills, duh?

Well let’s rephrase it then, what type of job are you presently engaged in and why?

Perhaps your geographical location is what determines if your current job is by choice or circumstance, and with your level of education and exposure whether you want to be rich and what being rich actually means to you.

All these multiple webs of choices, circumstances, destinies, meaning, content and purpose also have a huge part to play in your life whether you’ll easily adopt the emigrant’s employment mentality attitude or if you’re going to be handing out colourful proposals.

Mind you, if you already have a job you’re comfortable with, you best hold unto it even if you have big dreams, just remember there is a word called multi-tasking, just set a target before all that backlog of personal sacrifice takes its toll on your health (I’m not being judgmental).

Do we really need jobs? Seriously, are you kidding?, of course our jobs are the reasons we are still here, the question is what kind of job are you presently doing, why and how can you use it to make life better? Remember, its an opinion, you choose.

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