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Sweet Dreams
Posted by: | CommentsThe one thing I have learned in this world is that song “Sweet Dreams” hold more true than most people will admit.
We live in a world of users, abusers, and those wanting used and abused.
Most of the people you encounter day to day is one of them. This being said it really comes down to being honest with yourself and what you really want out of life. If a 9-5 job just making ends meet is fine for you then more power to you. If you want more though, you need to get out of the cycle you are in an go for it.
People will stay in the cycle or rut they are in because they are use to it and comfortable. It doesn’t matter how much they are being used or abused, if they are use to the situation they will stay in it than do anything to get out. For example, I can walk into a Walmart store right now and tell someone that I can teach them how to make more than they are making now and all they have to do is change the situation they are in, how many people would do it? The truth is very few, the ones that have been there the longest wouldn’t even consider it.
They are so use to the abuse and being used they can’t walk away from it. They can’t break free to seek out what they honestly want in life. They are literally trapped with no ability to escape on their own.
Most people think it is their paycheck or money keeping them from changing their life. They give the excuse of family, illness, and many other things. The real truth is that they are scared to death to even try.
You can blame it on anything you want. It still comes down to you and the mental conditioning you have been put through in school, family, and society that has told you how to act, where to work, what to expect in life, and to not try to get any further. That mental conditioning is something you have to break free of otherwise you will never get free.
I just spent about four hours talking with a woman trapped because she is mentally conditioned. She is stuck and wants a better life, the only thing holding her back is herself. She made 50 excuses as to why she can’t walk away and change her life, after four hours she couldn’t justify any excuse for staying. In those four hours I made her step back and take a look at what is going on and her situation. I showed her what is happening to her and why it is. She now is now considering doing what she has been wanting to do for a while. The same thing she gave the me the excuse she would do it in a year. Her saying a year was just her way to see a light at the end of the tunnel to justify staying. Her one year would turn into two, then three, and then twenty years down the road she would be trying to figure out what happened and be so beaten down by the situation she never would have gotten out of the situation she did not want to be in any longer.
You have to do the same thing. You have to break out of that mental conditioning to get where you want to be. The longer you stay and the more excuses you give yourself the more beaten down you will get and then you will break and never get where you want to be.
Why you should work for yourself
Posted by: | CommentsWhy should you work for yourself?
A question I’m sure many people have asked, but what is the answer.
I just saw a news story on Walmart laying off 11,000 part-time old ladies because they decided to outsource their jobs to a company that has the sole purpose of replacing those ladies with more old ladies to do the same job.
Yes, it is written correctly.
Doesn’t make sense unless Walmart has figured out a way to bring in this company with a cost less than what the people they laid off was costing them.
Which that means the old ladies this outside company has working for them is probably (I’m sure) is now making less than the ones that got laid off.
Walmart also told these old ladies that if they claim discrimination they won’t get their severence pay. Talk about black mail.
In the whole mess of this thing, they are also closing 10 Sam’s Clubs and opening 5 more. Talk about greedy.
So why should you work for yourself? Because the age old ethic of working for a company for 20-40 years and then retiring is gone. Most people work at a job less than 5 years and they are always going where there is more money.
Loyalty is the real problem. Companies don’t care about their workers, just the bottom line. So workers now don’t care about companies because they know they are just a warm body filling a spot that might disappear the next day they come to work without warning.
Working for yourself you at least have choices. You control how you make your money and who is in charge. If you don’t make any money you have no one to blame but yourself. This forces you to drive yourself to success. Working for someone else just gives you a crutch to lean on and give yourself excuses why you aren’t doing in better in life.
Think about yourself. Yes, you have to be selfish working for someone else, because you know the company doesn’t give a rat’s ass about your well being. If you get a chronic illness do they comfort you? Tell you that you will always have a job there because you have be so loyal to them and worked so hard? If you have to quit because of that chronic illness do they even give you a farwell party?
If you answer yes, then you need to realize it was the other employees not the company.
You know the only thing Walmart gave all those old ladies when they laid them off? The only option they got was a box of tissues when they walked into the room to get shit canned.
Walmart
Posted by: | CommentsOk, I’m venting today. At one time in my life I use to work for Walmart and sadly I have friends still there.
I’m not sure what Walmart is up to but I don’t think it is going to work for them. Cutting hours, emptying the action alleys, giving you much less selection, that is suppose to encourage me to buy more?
I went in the store the other day and the place is starting to look like a thrift store. You know like one of those places where they buy a shit load of bulk crap from asian and then have their own brand slapped on it. Selling it for half the price of name brand even though it is worth much less.
You know the stuff was made in a foreign country when the box is in all chinese and it still bears the sweat and blood of the kids in the sweat shop that made it.
You are left with this feeling of uncertainty of “should I buy something” feeling sorry for the kids in the sweat shop knowing they get pay shit and treated like animals. If you buy something the hard labor continues for them, if you don’t buy something they will probably end up homeless on the street.
For a billion dollar company, you would think Walmart would be the responsible corporation they should be and not the greedy company they are abusing the system and people just to make a buck.
I saw a tv program called “The New Age of Walmart”, it might be right now, but what goes up does come down. I think we are at the turning point with Walmart too.