Thoughts on this recession
Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of bleeding heart stories on the news documenting the suffrage of those less ‘fortunate’. The people unable to make ends meet financially, the folks who make less than $30,000 a year and have no health insurance, and most recently, the laid-off masses who through industry decline or corporate restructuring are now left sitting at home full time.
If you pay attention the REAL bottom 10% of this country (the news media) you’d be left thinking “In this post-Bush era, we’re now feeling the effects of the past 8 years where fiscal policy took a back seat to our hunger for war, thus resulting in mass suffering among most Americans.”.
Nonsense.
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach, so you get what we had here last week which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don’t like it any more than you men.”
We as Americans seem to have lost our intestinal fortitude. Are the days when we mapped out our own path in life gone forever? What happened to this ‘American dream’ my grandfather chased last century? People have simply become too dependent on others, that’s the root problem in this recession.
It used to be the dream was a wife, 2 kids, 1-car garage, nice neighborhood, and a white picket fence. Now it seems we want guaranteed job security sitting in some cubicle farm on the 45th floor. We settle for 1.5% raises each year and don’t bitch when that raise is negated by a 5% increase in your family heath insurance premium. Hey, it’s a job right and it puts food on the table. Seriously? Leave your balls on the table next time you leave home, you obviously don’t need them.
Forget education too. It’s easier to spend 2 years in college running up $20K in student loans, then realizing that all the booze you drank in the previous 24 months has rendered you more useless than Paris Hilton. You drop out and take a $10/hour job at a call center under the guise of “taking a semester off”. Hey corky, semesters are 4 months, not 5 years, get your ass back in the classroom. Total fail.
There is a simple formula for success in this great country of ours: Research + analysis + resourceful planning + extremely hard work + persistence == profit.
Are you guaranteed to succeed? Sure, if you guarantee yourself. If previously worked as a manager of some restaurant and now find your dumb ass delivering pizzas, you’re doing it wrong. The ones that weather the rough seas of a recession aren’t the ones who settle for just getting by, they’re the people who say ‘screw dropping the anchor, drop that mainsail and set course for the storm’. They find opportunity, they find resources that help them succeed, and most of all, they get aggressive.
A sailboat anchored in the harbor is perfectly safe, but that’s not what sailboats are made for.
If you find yourself sitting home unemployed, or work 10 hours a day for peanuts, or cry yourself to sleep each night, or feel any sort of pain in your current situation, get your ass out of that chair and find the closest mirror. Tell the person you’re looking at “you want change, make it”.
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Holy crap, you and I have wayyyyyyy more in common then I thought
That was pretty damned good….
BB_Wolfe is my hero.
Right on the nose man. Left and right I hear people complaining about their salary cuts, yet I’m having a record high this month. Some people need to grow a pair and get to work on their future.
Jizzed in my pants. Reminds me of my post @ http://www.robadler.com/you-dont-need-the-government-to-save-you/
So good, last sentence sums up everything. Jus as audax, 3 last months for me have been better than all previous ones just because of actions.
Actually pretty inspiring, been thinking about this a lot recently.