A Little Something For Everyone
5 01 2009Work sucks. If you are one of those people who have a job you enjoy, it might as well be the job of your dreams. I struggle to find work that I really enjoy. I know what my hobbies are, and I know why I like them. But if my hobbies could make me money, then I would be excited! I have been building websites now for years, only to make a few pennies at a time. Unless you have the money to start a business properly, according to how the Government wants you to run it, then you might as well look for something else. Government Grants maybe, but still gotta go through some school for that (or they wont give it to you). What do you do?
I stopped caring. Even minute you stress you are shaving minutes off of your life. Don’t let that happen to you. Take control and be excited about life. Don’t let “The Man” get you down. Times are hard for everyone it seams. But to me, it doesn’t matter because nothing has changed, and we are all still in the same situation as we were before.
If there are a few things that will ALWAYS make money, they are the basic things we need in life. Those things regard:
Food, Clothing (not for looks, but for durability) and Hygiene. Those will always be important and needed. So if you are struggling, maybe you should think about working a farm. I personally don’t like the city too much…..all the crime, constant noise, and so many people crunched in together…..it kind of makes me sick.
I want to ask, if you could have any job in the world with or without the schooling behind it, what would you want to do?
Think about it and then leave me a comment below. Thanks!
i think ive talked to you personally before about this but ill share a little about my goals\dream job in life and why on here for anyone else interested in reading about it
my dream job something i currently have plans and are working towards is becoming a teacher, im naturally gifted in mathematics (no i wont do your homework… for free…) and through my life thus far to this date, i have found no greater joy then teaching, simple things right now in my life, no audience in front of me yet, but on a person to person basis, friends, family members, coworkers strangers i always get a huge sense of pride if i can teach someone something, one complicated thing that ive taught a total of 12 people so far is the Rubiks® Cube, i learned it when I was 14, and taught many people how to do it, unfortunately I cant make money consistently doing that
but with teaching mathematics in school i can make a living until im 80 if need be, its not a job that is physically demanding, the mental toll on the mind is not unbearable, and the feeling of satisfaction is limitless, when you see an adolescent boy or girls eyes light up, and you notice their brain opening to an entirely different world of thinking, and you are the sole cause of it, there cant be a better feeling then that, and I’ll be able to do that on not the biggest scale but about in highschool with 6 different classes daily ill see the evolution of anywhere from 120 to 180 kids daily, and to me thats a life well spent 
an Einstein quote for those who care…
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”
thats my two cents
To me, there was something very satisfying about running my own business for over 25 years. It could get real dicey when the projects were not lining up, and I had to “re-invent” myself - by learning another programming language, or another operating system, or other core products. For sure, there’s nothing like “putting yourself through the changes” (as us hippies used to say), to add some spark to one’s existence.
Sadly, I didn’t attend college - I want to do so when I retire, and can devote time and cycles to it.
Let me kick out a couple of thoughts here, John. There is no substitute for education, but it doesn’t have to be classroom taught or “book learning”. Some of our greatest inventors were self taught. Many of us learn best by doing. Now we have the wealth of the Web and Wikis to fill your heads. A day doesn’t pass that I don’t look for somebody else’s thoughts, or a coding fragment in one of several languages. There are some amazing books, too!. Be self-educated, whether you are college educated or not! Not many people work in the field in which they got their degree. And ask friends how many hours total they studied in their major in the four years of school - make them justify the number they pull from their, um, ear - the actual number is astonishingly small for most students. Classroom hours - a very small number, study hours might be a small number as well, if it’s an “art” or pseudo-science.
Running one’s own biz used to be a skosh easier and a lot harder. It was easier because most of us could make a good living, drop the cash and receipts in a shoe box, and support the family. Medical was pretty easy to deal with, unless something big happened. Yikes - now it’s not that easy. The govmutts are after you - most of us have paid our tax bill by the end of July - not so long ago our taxes (income, ss, sales, property taxes, licenses) were only 1/3 of our earnings.
So that part is harder now. What is easier, is the tools we have to run our businesses. Most businesses need to keep track of income and expenses, as well as payables and receivables, and inventory. And then do taxes. And probably create estimates, and write letters and maybe proposals. Yikes -that was a huge amount of work, done on ledgers and typewriters or hand written, and there were no small-office copy machines, so you did everything with carbon paper, or you didn’t have a copy.
And a phone bill could easily be $400 a month if you made a few long-distance phone calls. A cross country phone call was a couple of bucks a minute during working hours. If that hadn’t been fixed, think of a $4000 phone bill - my dad made a great living in late ’50’s - $10,000 per year. That’s equivalent to $100,000 or more today.
I’ve been an “instant expert” for a lot of years, trying to stay a few pages ahead of my competition, and I know you can do the same. It’s somewhat easier, being an employee, and hoping you will continue to have a job at a good income, but the real satisfaction comes from steering your own course.
Charlie