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FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2013 Jul 29, 1:08am
You posted about how you worked hard and pulled yourself out of poverty, then conclude that it was largely luck and use it as an example of how others are not so fortunate? Wtf?
Tenpoundbass
2013 Jul 29, 1:23am
old saying: "Once you have a job you can always get another one."
Yes! I'm a true fan of in one door and through the next. Every job I've ever taken. I took on the premise, that I would only work that job, until it had nothing more to offer me. Better position, knowledge or pay raise. Once either of those three plateau, I'm off to greener pastures.
ohomen171 says
Many people down at the bottom are never fortunate enough to pull themselves up.
Because they've been conditioned that when you're down the only way to get up, is to be handed an out. For these people, their Ace in the hole, is they play the Lotto ever Wed and Sat.
You can do anything in this country you set your mind to, but practice law or medicine with out a degree to do so. It may be getting more and more difficult to start a successful business these days. But if you're persistent, you can find a large corporation to buy your idea.
My dream is not to compete with the technical monopolies out there. But to create something, they would give me millions or billions for my idea.
That is doable in this new economy. Trying to successfully be an upstart where you can effectively compete with them. Is not so doable.
And OH! As I'm eluding to, it helps if you dream, and dream big.
But at least dreaming is a start. For most of those down on the bottom, they've been conditioned to not even dream.
You guys should try it sometime. Throw enough shit on the walls and some of it will stick. That is a lesson, young guys today, was not taught by their Dads.
I wouldn't trade the treasure trove of adages, and sayings and affirmations that my Dad instilled in me, for a Harvard education.
I share your viewpoint about in and out of jobs, and my history certainly shows it. And right this minute, I am in the process of selling my company to a larger acquirer, so I assume that Cap'n is working at the NSA now.
But I can say that early on, I was devastated by the actions of the US government, via its affirmative action program, to deny me admission to graduate school, so that applicants of more favored races could be admitted instead with lower qualifications. I had graduated summa cum laude and was voted into Phi Beta Kapa, and was the son of a lifetime factory worker who had never attended high school. So needless to say, I am no fan of our government, and know that the USG can not only reward handouts to folks, they can also penalize folks who are trying to advance themselves.
Tenpoundbass
2013 Jul 29, 1:48am
The trick is not to announce it. Your plans upsets Liberals something awful. They wont have any of it. Why they'll even dislike your post for merely suggesting that you're in charge of your own destiny.
I'm a no good son of a bitch is what I am, I should be drawn and quartered.
I was watching the news and they had a unusually intersting story focusing on the haves and have nots in NYC. To illustrate the have nots, the interviewed a guy and his wife at a food kitchen. The guy was unemployed for two years. They just had a baby, and also had a second 1 year old in tow. No job, eating at food kitchens, and procreating. A more prudent fellow would put off the family thing until finances were stabilzed. This is not my problem, and I do not want to subsidize folks like this. But I also don't want to step over them in the gutter.
marcus
2013 Jul 29, 3:12am
This is not my problem, and I do not want to subsidize folks like this. But I also don't want to step over them in the gutter.
That makes you a liberal for two reasons. You're thinking too much for one thing, and you're bleeding heart. You should be willing to go with this:
This is not my problem, and I do not want to subsidize folks like this
and leave it at that.
The small things in life should mean a lot to you. Sixteen and a half years ago I was awarded two ball point pens by the George S. May Company. These pens were given to me by my boss at the time, Steven Sanchez, for excellent sales performance. Despite all of my good work, I cleared less than $400 every two weeks. I rode a bicycle (that I still have hanging in my garage). I had no medical insurance. I could not even afford to rent a room on this salary. I lived in a homeless shelter. In the end the taxpayers and charities of Santa Clara County, California were subsidizing this company so that it could pay exploitation wages to its workers. Walmart knows this story well. This is how they prosper.
On the other hand that miserable exploitation job gave me pride and hope in life. It also matches with that old saying: "Once you have a job you can always get another one."
I carry these pens with me every day to remind me of how far that I had come in life. It gives me humility.
After George S. May Company I was very lucky to get a job with an incredible man who owned a trading company in Holland. He gave me some profound words of wisdom as follows: "Jack I could lose it all tomorrow." I never forget those words. Everyday I'm thankful for what I have and humble. Many people down at the bottom are never fortunate enough to pull themselves up. The millions of poor people,even in a rich country like the US, are living proof of this.