Hi Jacqui D,
With all due respect, I was a little suprised by your answer.
Do we have a choice regarding work? Of course we do! We decide what we want to do. Unfortunately people allow circumstance to define what they do. It's all wrong.
I need to work for someone. Wrong!
I need to work to feed my family. Wrong!
I need to work so I can buy the things I want. Wrong!
It's all wrong.
I have never been ashamed of being poor. I have passed by some really bad times in the UK when I left home at 17 years of age. But I decided to never backtrack and always move forward.
A few years ago I read the book "The Art of War" by Tzun Zu. This book confirmed my thinking of always moving forward, saying that we had to 'burn our bridges' so that we couldn't go back even if we wanted to, that we would be encouraged to fight tougher because of it.
Since I was 22 years old I left the UK and became a musician / vocalist (I was already semi-pro in the UK). I travelled a great deal, made some good friends on the way and got by very very well, thank you very much. I worked whenever I wanted, I mixed with whomever I wanted, travelled wherever I wanted. It was all down to me. I enjoyed it so much I didn't even consider it work. I've been on holiday for over 25 years!!
I don't see the intelligence in working 40 hours a week to buy food for a family. It's like the old saying that modern man works all week to feed his family and the cavemen worked a day to feed his family for a month. I tend to look a little in between. I have a small farm that satisfies some of what I need and I try and swap or sell what I grow for the other things that I need.
We seriously need to think about if we want to rule our lives or allow our lives to rule us.
Working to buy things we want is relative. We need to ask ourselves if what we want is too much. That was the main cause of the problem with the US economy, they have been living above their means.
So they become their own slaves to try and pay off debt.
Although I do have seven credit cards, they are only for unforseen circumstances and are paid off immediately.
If I aint got it, I can't have it.
So basically that's my way of life and I must say, without trying to be arrogant, it has worked for me.
Many people get into trouble by allowing peer group pressure, advertising, social etiquete etc. etc. get in the way.
I'm not saying that everybody should live the same life, but what I'm trying to say is that we need to set the bar as to what we want out of life and not the other way around.
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by Jacqui D
I undersand what you are saying Steve but you say the rest of the time people believe they need to hold a job down behave in a certain religios way.
Do we really have a choice regarding work?
Yes i would love to live differently but with a job no money no living basically
The way we live i agree must change but until the mass see that change is needed those who favour change have no choice i feel.
We still have to eat to survive well in this reality at least!
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