I think it goes without saying that I am pretty
lefty/socialist kind of guy. I think the
world is more than a bit skewered towards the 1% and difficult for the working
man and especially the working poor. I
show this in my attitude, I show this in how I vote and I practice this in my
day to day life.
……..But…….
I also get angry, and sometimes very angry and disappointed
in Americans, and especially the Americans I am trying to help with my
attitude, my votes and my day to day practices.
And what I think about and simmer about is…….WHAT THE HELL
ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?????
Life is tough now in the US
Are you kidding me?
Your life is going to be HOW much better if you make $15.00 an
hour????? You THINK that is going to
change everything???
And you THINK “they” are going to pay “you” $15.00?
And let me tell you who I am talking to…….you have seen
them. We have WAY too many people
(!adults!) who look like SHIT! Lack of
personal hygiene, wearing horseshit clothes, tattooed, pierced up the ying/yang
modeling lawn mower accident haircuts, smoking, littering and not giving a shit
about anyone’s concept of society.
Hey, you want to get somewhere, you want to be somebody –
take a look around, see the people with jobs, with skills, with “a life” (that
you disdain) – yeah, all that “bullshit”
- get on board or enjoy your
freedom to be a bum.
And that is just the bottom.
To those barely getting by here are some random thoughts:
Savings accounts come before:
Car
payments
Cigarettes
Nights out
on the town
Cell phones
(that you stare at constantly)
Cable TV
Flat screen
tv’s
Tattoos
Piercings
Getting ahead at work includes
Showing up
on time (which is fucking earlier than others)
Doing more
than your peers (working your ass off)
Looking presentable
showering, shaving
before work
wearing clean
clothes
tucking your shirt
in
Not cutting off the sleeves of
your shirt and wearing a shitty shirt underneath
Not
going outside to smoke every five minutes
Not
having your headphones on
Asking “what
else can I do” and DOING IT
Figuring
out WHAT ELSE CAN I DO and DOING IT
Dealing with
customers and vendors like they are important to your success
Doing what
YOU can to develop skills that your company needs
Getting ahead in life not only INCLUDES the above things BUT
also includes the thought that MAYBE where you are working and what you are
doing IS NOT going to get you anywhere and maybe, JUST MAYBE you may have to
get off your ass and find a better job.
At an early age I learned that if you want to succeed at
something it was not a bad idea to look at the people who WERE successful at
something and study what they do; including asking them what they did to get
where they were. Here is the secret,
calling them brown-nosing suck ups that have “sold out’ is not going to get you
anywhere- nor is laughing at them and calling them names. Look deep in your soul and realize that Aesop
had a fable out describing “those grapes”.
AND he had another one about an Ant and a Grasshopper…….AND if you do
not remember or never heard about AESOP perhaps reading these stories might be
a good place to start getting your life together.
Which brings me to READING
Learn a thing or two – YES educate YOURSELF….. be somebody
and quit your bitchin’.
Quit bitchin about life – chances are if YOUR life is a mess
(i.e. you do NOT have the money you need to get by) YOU need to change
something, and the above “advice” ain’t a bad place to start – BECAUSE the
WORLD AIN”T GONNA CHANGE, so you had better.
