Jan
20
Free electron
Filed Under Faith and fear, Freedom, Income, Money, Travel
Working in a office, having to devote all my time and energy to employers, seeing the same sights everyday. I’m going to leave this way of life forever.
A few years ago, after dropping out of high school, I worked as a laborer in various factories and warehouses. It lasted for two years before I decided to study by myself and pass an admission exam that would allow me to go to college. At that time, I thought having a college degree meant having a job in which I’d find myself happier, freer, and wealthier. I began studying various subjects before finally opting for taxes and accounting. I actually loved those classes, rocked at it and found what is called a good job in a matter of days after receiving my degree.
Coming from a family of laborers and social welfare abusers, I was seeing it as a huge social evolution. The feeling of accomplishment lasted a few months, accompanied by an actual feeling of self-worthiness to be a part of the system. I was happy to provide value to the company I was working for, because making it perform well meant being a part of the global economy of my country. Being good at it meant more profit, thus more employment, more taxes, more money to pay for schools and road. Everything seemed so beautifully set. Working there was good to me and to the community. At least, that’s what it felt like. The human mind is so flexible I’d conditioned myself to believe that a white collar job would make me happy and was the right thing to do.
Then monotony and lucidity set in. Those good high-on-pot feelings began dropping in intensity, as I realized there was not much difference between an office job and a factory job. I was still a slave. I’d spent years studying, only to become more of a slave than I actually was without college education. School had only contributed to make me more of a sheep than I would have been if I’d stayed education-free. Without going to college, I would have kept working as a slave, but at least I’d have stayed conscious about it.
In 99% of office jobs, you don’t get paid enough for the devotion you give your employer, even if you have a 6 figures salary. Spending at least 40 hours a week in a office, pretending you care for the company and spending actual mental energy to make it go well although deep down you couldn’t care less, when you could be spending that time and energy on a project of your own, is both a lie to yourself and to your employer. This is the way of the weak. Because what you really care for is your wife, your children, your friends and the activities you like doing outside, these things you really enjoy doing and that you do whenever you actually feel like it, (not from 9 to 5 convincing yourself it’s good for you).
Here’s a list of the things I most like doing :
- I love writing.
- I love traveling and feeling free, being on the road.
- I love thinking uncommonly.
- I love playing backgammon.
- I love studying animal behavior.
Five stuff I love and that count for me. Five ways to earn the necessary money to live.
I’m combining number 1 and 3 in this blog. It’s not bringing any money at the time of writing, but that’s because I need to provide more and more value. When there will be enough valuable articles in here, I know it will pay back.
I’m about to live number 2 full time in a few months time, and along with that I have two projects : one involving business that goes with traveling, and the second one is writing online on a day-to-day basis about my traveling experiences.
Number 4 has yet to provide a way of bringing in some cash. I’m not good enough to play for money yet. But I’m practicing everyday in the hope to become an excellent player.
Number 5 is a longer term idea. If someday I decide to set in, somewhere wild in the world, I would love to work freelance on helping humans and animals to live together. Bringing the first ones to understand and respect the seconds more.
What are the things you love doing ?
Don’t hesitate sharing your ideas below 
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[...] Original post by Just act [...]
Hi,
thank you for your words. I skipped work today. I said I was vomiting cause I was stressed. I did not vomit, but I wish I had. I feel so sick with my life right now! I am 33 and can´t believe where I´ve gotten: where is the free thinker I have always been? Where is the good I thought I could do in the world? I was raised to be special, now I am just a gray person on a gray chair in a gray office slaving virtual stuff… I miss when I was a waitress, at least I was moving! I found your site by googling up “how to be happy”… yes, that´s where I am at right now… I need Internet to tell me how… I have forgotten when it was the last time I felt really fulfilled… Your honesty helped me be honest as well. Thank you for that. The things I like (really like) doing are:
1) Reading and thinking. I enjoy just letting my thoughts drift and coming up with excentric ideas and reveries about life´s (actual) beauty (which I seem to have forgotten now)
2) I love being on the beach and getting the sun on my face. Sitting with a friend with whom I don´t need to explain myself.
3) I love discovering. Things I have never seen before, that I had not known, that are brand new (to me) are really exciting! And show that there is so much more to life than the usual …
4) I love accomplishing a goal. The feeling you get from finishing, completing something you wanted to do.
5) I love cats. I don´t know why I don´t have a cat. I told myself the cats I want are too expensive (I like the fat fluffy hairy type, and you have to buy those)… but what is money compared to the joy it could give me?
6) I love helping people and being generous. I am actually quite generous in my everyday life, and I love it.
7) I love my family. My family is a bit all over the world, and we are not perfect, but I love them madly and beyond reason.
Okey, I could really go on and on and on forever… so I will finish it up for now. I thank you again, for the chance to reflect on those things and to get to know me just a bit better. Wish you good winds beneath your sails.
Lara
Lara, thanks for your nice comment. It seems like you REALLY need to consider at least changing jobs, and perhaps think about ways you can work freelance. You know, start you own business or even a non-profit organisation (you seem to be a generous and nurturing woman). Anyway, I’ve been there and I can tell you need to sit back and think about a new goal and a new direction you want to give to your life. May I suggest you go on stevepavlina.com , read some articles he wrote and join the forum. There’s a huge community over there that will be very willing to help you… It has been of a great help to me in the previous year.
Goog luck and keep us posted.