Lifes too short

One of my newsletters I get in email was talking about the sudden shift in employment issues these last couple years. We all know how there seems to be a shortage of people and a lot of scrambling to fill low wage positions like fast food jobs and such. Its crazy enough that many are offering crazy high rates to attract anybody to fill the slots. I saw a sign at Buc-cees while out last week, and the lowest rank slot started at $14/hr.

What that newsletter stated was that people figured out that life is too short to waste on a job you despise.

Kinda hard to argue that point. My only argument would be that when you are just starting out, you’re gonna have to suck it up and do the crappy jobs to learn the ropes enough to find that ‘dream job’, and good luck there, since those dream jobs are rather like unicorns. True ‘dream jobs’ are self made and those don’t have a hiring process or safety nets of retirement benefits built in. My dream job was touring Live Audio, and I did it for several years, until my ears could no longer do what they were made for. (I am not Stone Deaf, but sure ain’t all that far from it either. I do lip read and do have hearing aids, but the damage is done and not reversible.) Now, instead of assiting others to make beautiful sounds, I make ‘things’, and I enjoy that, even if its not always something ‘way cool’. Things that last longer than the next quarter of the fiscal year or the next 10 minutes as the buyer gibbles down that burger. And because the tools I use are loud and obnoxious, I don’t wear the hearing aids: that makes things ‘odd’ when I do have to interact with people. Especially in Appalachia, where the dialect is borderline Gealic inflection over old english wordings. Its ‘English’ but unless you’ve been immersed in it, you won’t recognize it as such, and if hearing impaired,,,,

My biggest problem, and it has been ongoing for decades (and I know what I need to do, but haven’t found my niche) is that I love the things I do; I don’t necessarily like whom I do them for. I need to break away and form my own little enterprise, but,,,

And everything after that ‘but’ is bullshit excuses, and y’all know it as well as I. Part of that is ‘confidence’, I know I am physically and mentally capable, but not financially capable and that (lack of) financal confidence holds me back. That lack of financial confidence is why I remain an employee, not an entrepreneur.

And why I have to cut this short so I can go to that J.O.B. thingy. Moarlatersss