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Post by X factor on Nov 7, 2013 8:09:54 GMT -5
The difference between a career and a job...
Let's explore this.
I'm sure everyone will have their own definition of the two.
To me, a job, is kind of a generic designation for being employed...the President has a job...his job is to preside over the affairs of the nation...
A pilot has a 'job'...his job is to transport passengers through the air on an airplane.
So the term 'job' kind of has to meanings...
But for the purpose of this post...I'm referring to 'job' as a kind of low skilled, minimum qualification, limited advancement employment.
To me a job is a place you show up to, perform a set of tasks, get paid, then go home.
No real career growth, no innsentive to pay more, cause your skill isn't specialized, therefore anyone could do it.
A job, to me, is something you do just to pay the bills....but there's no real love or passion for it...like being a cashier, or maid, or janitor, or low end security guard.
A job is a place where you, the worker, have no administrative influence at all what so ever....none.
A career, on the other hand, (to me) is a wage earning position you planned for and wanted. Usually a career involves going to college, trade school, apprentiship or some other specialized training.
Usually a career is something you actually want to do, want to become, something you enjoy.
And to achieve it you have to pay to learn it.
When I think of careers I think of...Doctor, lawyer, pilot, Firefighter, law enforcement, biologist, accountant, athlete, athletic director, banking, auto mechanic, plumber, electrician, engineer and so on.
These aren't jobs you can just show up for, fill out application and be working the next day.
Careers involve a lot of training...training which costs money.
As such, usually those who graduate college or trade school, had to be very motivated to not only pay for their training, but to maintain decent grades.
That shows discipline and passion to prospective employers...thus you're rewarded more in pay and responsibility.
To me a job is any place you go where you have absolutely no influence to how the company you work for is ran...none, zilch.
You could be Einstein and they still will not listen to you simply cause you're on the labor end of the company.
That's a job...you know you're working a job when you have no influence on how company is ran.
And I'm simply writing all this now, to establish a basis for future posts...
These things matter...it matters to me, you, and everyone else...no one is a slave...everyone has aspirations...(at least motivated people do)...and large companies need to realize this...and stop treating their employees, at jobs, like their mindless, soulless workers who don't think.
Like that term 'You're not paid to think'...
If any corporation or employer ever told me that...I'd kindly tell them to play off and leave...
We're all created in the image of god, and thus thinking, creating, is apart of that image...and it's sad that some employers forget that...
to be continued...
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Post by X factor on Dec 26, 2013 17:47:21 GMT -5
What sucks about being apart of the lower end paying scale, is that no matter how hard you work, those with nothing, the bums who roam the streets, the bums who loiter in front of convient stores, are always there, as if to remind you you're only one or two checks away from them...  It's like they're always there to haunt you, to remind you, that they are your destiny... they do nothing, yet are sustained, you do 10 times more than them to make it, yet are barely sustained. The system requires nothing of them, yet of you, for working, the system drowns you in mandated fees, payments, taxes, this and that... Yet every day, when you get off work, the same bums are there...as if to say to you 'Hey, when are you going to join us?'....'Your destiny is to be like us, so why are you wasting your time working and being responsible, come have a beer'.... When it comes to righteous person living in this world, there is no such thing as fair...only torment... |
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Post by X factor on Jan 28, 2014 21:16:38 GMT -5
President Obama is giving State of the Union speech tonight...I wish him well, as one life form to another.
But I have bills to pay...nothing he, or other politicians say tonight will effect my life one single bit, will effect me having to wake up early tomorrow, in the freezing cold and go to work.
None the less, out of respect, be it him or any other national leader, I wish him well in his speech, regardless of party affiliation, which again means squat to me right now...
Right, left, whatever...I have to wake up and work tomorrow, I'll let the millionaire politicians fight amongst themselves, for me it's time for bed.
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Post by X factor on Feb 4, 2014 23:00:09 GMT -5
 Truth isTruth is, most of us will never be rich, our induvisual labor is not enough to make us prosper. This idea, of work work work, until you drop, and some day you'll succeed, is kind of a hoax. A hoax created, started, by big industry, who needs 'labor'...your muscles, time and energy. Truth is, labor alone isn't enough to get anyone ahead in life, your body will wear out before you get a return on your labor. But big industry, and hired spokes people like talk radio hosts, tell you that..... it keeps you hypmotized, believing, that if you just put in enough over time at a low paying labor job, that one day you to can be a millionaire, retire, and live in a mansion. False... What's really more likely to happen is your body will begin to break down at 40 or 50, and your savings will be next to nothing, do to medical, or other emergencies that pop up through life, outstanding loans you've pulled out from banks will all be do. So you'll be forced to continue to labor, with sore back, knees, fading eyesight, not cause you want to, but rather cause if you don't you'll be homeless and loose everything. Secret...rich people don't labor... Rich people simply get paid large salaries. And there's nothing wrong with that. But rich people earn salaries based on the labor of others, not themselves. There's many ways to become rich, invent product, like Bill Gates, work in banking, be an investor, get into Real Estate, become a salesperson, singer, rapper, mob, politician, education ect. But what I'm saying is rich people don't labor. Instead they sell ideas, concepts, products, print fake money...but they themselves do not labor. Labor is the least efficient way to get ahead in todays world. The volume of daily, weekly bills is just to high, to allow one to get ahead through pure labor. There are a few acceptions, like oil field jobs that pay extremely well, but again, such jobs take big toll on the body...and can't be sustained for years. I'm glad many are rich, can relax, enjoy life, travel, get paid off the labor of others, get paid inflated salaries 'just because'... Cool. All I'm here to say is labor, the idea that you can get ahead off of $12.00 an hour or $1920 a month...it won't happen. Labor alone is not enough to get you ahead in this world, you'll need something else to supplement that. Second job, investments, start own business ect. |
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Post by X factor on Feb 13, 2014 19:00:28 GMT -5
 This is what millionaires, the investor class, those who accumulate wealth off the labor of others, stock holders, CEO's, ect ect, talk radio hosts like Hannity, ect, this is what they just don't get about physical labor jobs...they wear on u...expecially as you age. Their answer to everything is for you to get 5 jobs, and I guess just work around the clock, to the point where you stress body out so much that you just die. People need rest, and jobs that require you to physically labor exhaust the body.. It's like playing a basketball game or football game or hockey game for 8-12 hours straight. You'd have to be high on cocaine in order to work 3-4 jobs continuously without just dropping to floor do to exhaustion. I don't envy the rich, but never understand why the rich wealthy class is so against allowing others to earn more, paying others more...while they hire Portfolia managers to manage and trade stock for them...and then scream when company they have stock in wants to give employees 50 cent raise. How freagin selfish. Life is short, healthy life, the time when you can actually work, is even shorter. And laboring for a living is the least efficient way to earn an income these days, for your body will wear out long before you get a good return on your labor. Someone who is given 1 million dollars has no idea how far ahead that puts them than the average Joe/Jane on the street. You can never physically or hourly earn that kind of money...(athletes being the exception). Just to save 1 million you have to earn about 10 million. It's impossible to do working normal hourly labor type job. You'd have to earn $100,000 for 10 years to even come close. And people who earn $100,000 a year don't do it mopping floors or cashiering for 7-Eleven. The older people get, the more people realize their chance to accumulate that type of wealth is diminishing by the day. Health or bad health and age will catch you before that time arrives. And is probably why more and more people play the lottery now, regardless of what faith they belong to. People just want the chance to relax, enjoy life a little, while still young, or somewhat young. There's nothing wrong with wanting that, expecially since this system is so 'yogarted'...the system of being a labor slave...and told that if you work long and hard enough, one day when your 75, with no teeth, and knees that don't work, that you'll be able to retire and enjoy life...ye ok. If you're rich and wealthy, just be glad you don't have to labor for a living...cause it would be hell to you, and you couldn't survive 2 days of it. . |
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Post by X factor on Feb 15, 2014 4:29:27 GMT -5
After a while, you really just don't want to work anymore....you just want money, and lots of it.
After a while it's like all labor just becomes generic labor, and regardless of what you do, how you labor, it produces a small check.
You get to a point where there's no more people to impress, no where else to climb...just generic labor.
Just earning enough to subside on.
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Post by X factor on Feb 17, 2014 21:51:25 GMT -5
Not sure how America is free when you're forced to labor and generate income until the day you die...or else.
Regardless of your health, mindset, you're forced to labor for a wage until you die, or else.
The wealthy class, of course, sees it differently, cause they don't earn their money through physical labor.
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Post by X factor on Feb 17, 2014 21:57:36 GMT -5
What if humans really are the 'demons'...and earth is hell...
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Post by X factor on Feb 19, 2014 22:07:49 GMT -5
Not sure how GOP, who claim to hate communism, can't, don't, relate labor exploitation or minimum wage, as being the exact same thing...
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Post by X factor on Mar 24, 2014 8:20:19 GMT -5
The only reason why the labor class was really able to get ahead in the past was do to large pension funds companies laid aside for them, that now only state or gov workers still really receive, or Union jobs.
But for those who just labor, without side benefits, there's really nothing glorious awaiting at the end, same bills will keep coming in whether working or not.
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Post by X factor on Apr 11, 2014 13:10:21 GMT -5
Soon I'll be 'married' again...to a corporate entity...  I mean lets face it, getting employed, ect, is like getting married, contract and all. You even go through all the stages of a relationship, dating, courting, commitment, then the marriage begins, honey moon, then weeks, months, later things slow down, and the true nature of you, and your new employer begin to come out. And if equally matched, it will be a long prosperous relationship, but if rushed, and relationship forged in haste, than it will disintegrate soon there after, and a divorce will follow, termination, quitting, getting 'axed', walking away or layed off. Your place of employment, or place you do business with, is just like your spouse. They will consume more of your time during the week than anything else, and will hold you to high order, and you will trust them to pay you right, after all, you don't cook and walk barefoot in the kitchen for free. You never really know how it's going to go until you get there, and actually 'move in'. Like couples, the husband/wife, who've never lived together before married, are kind of gambling that they'll be able to live under same roof together. The wife hopes husband doesn't snore, or have other annoying habits, traits, and the husband is hoping when wife peels off make-up, he'll still be able to recognize her... In fact, other than marriage, employment is probably the longest contractual agreement most are in during life, and some even longer than marriage, cause whether married or not everyone still needs an income. Oh well, we'll see how it goes. All of us would just rather be free, and win millions, and just be done with it, but until then, must play the game in order to stay economically relevant. |
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Post by X factor on Apr 16, 2014 17:34:46 GMT -5
Like most, I realize now I work, not to get rich anymore, or dillusional idea that labor produces wealth, but rather I work simply to stay busy, to fill time, and to pay basic bills.
Happiness simply has to be derived for other things you do around work, or certain satisfaction you get by performing to your best, even though your best will never lead to wealth.
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Post by X factor on May 8, 2014 13:26:38 GMT -5
After a while you realize your induvisual labor will never be enough to live comfortably on.
You begin to realize 'high salaries' is what makes people wealthy, not their induvisual hard work.
You can work your butt off at $9.00 an hour and still be poor and broke, or you can sit behind desk while working for EPA (Government agency) and earn $120,000 a year while surfing net all day and goofing off.
People who still tell you 'hard work' gets you ahead in life, obviously don't do 'hard work'.
The amount of work one does compared to another doesn't vary so much in that one gets $20,000 and the other gets $30 million.
It's not because the person earning $30 million is working that much harder, it's that they are simply paid that much more.
The money they receive simply doesn't come to them based on their own labor, it may be through sales, commissions, contracts...but not throw own labor.
Or labor class contractors into construction or trucking or plumbing ect...often what you make varies depending on the 'season'.
Credit is another way people hyper inflate their worth or buying power...so do corporations and businesses.
Credit, and being in depth, is more useful than not having credit and living by cash.
Cash is only good if you have at least $300,000 saved up...other wise if you live by cash, you'll always be broke and never be able to save anything.
I really can't blame people for playing the lottery...the alternative is to spend rest of life just toiling away, earning peanuts, saving up just enough money till next crisis in life comes a long and wipes that out.
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Post by X factor on Jun 6, 2014 6:18:25 GMT -5
Certain people in comfortable income earning jobs, have been brainwashed into categorizing others at the lower end of pay. You know they're an ideologue when they say the following 'Well you've always got a choice'...  That's like saying workers in North Korea always got a choice, or workers in Cuba, or any other part of the world where no matter what job you work, you'll get low pay. Now, for political reasons, many want to turn that into an American reality. So scoff at the idea of paying Walmart workers, or any retail/fast food worker more money to live on...not to thrive, but simply to live on, pay bills with...but even that insults some...amazing. Bills are bills, and the same bills someone who's on salary earning $80,000 a year, are the exact same bills someone working fulltime at Walmart has to pay. Bills, gas, heat, rent, mortgage, don't adjust themselves depending on your pay check. 'Low Skill' is another term snobs use...in order to diminish others, while making themselves feel worthier of their salaried pay, which in all probability is way to much. I see people busting their butts daily on jobs snobs could never do, wouldn't last 3-4 hours, yet these jobs and services are essential, and do require skill, focus and concentration or people get hurt or injured. And many of these workers provide services, churn out products, for stock holders, employers, who reap gigantic fiscal rewards. More examples to follow..time for work... One more thing, seems like in the in greedy minded capitolists and communists, are exactly the same in how they view those at the bottom, or 'the masses'... Both Communists and Capitolists view those at the economic bottom as 'resorces' to be used for the good of 'nation' for communists, and 'wealth building' for Capitolists. But to the low wage person at the bottom, whether living under communism or capitalist system, it's simply exploitation. Labor is labor, and if one is laboring, hurting body, wearing body out, and not gaining anything from it, it's exploitation, whether under communism or capitalism...in their end they're both the same when folks aren't paid fairly. |
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Post by X factor on Jun 7, 2014 10:28:48 GMT -5
Most people don't even want to become rich anymore, they've put that whole 'American Dream' thing aside, and simply want to be able to work full time and with income earned be able to pay for
1. Morgage/Rent
2. Utility bills
3. Transportation, fuel
4. Cable/phone/communication devices
5. Food
6. Health care
7. Clothes
8. Emergency funds
And a little left over to save and or enjoy.
I mean after all the whole point of earning an income is to reward self a bit.
If all one is doing is earning just enough to pay basics, then the whole entertainment industry would go away, no movies, no vacations, no sporting events, no new cars, motorcycles, no new Iphone, no computers, no furniture, no clothes, no glasses, no shoes, no gardening, no hobbies, no nothing.
Life would be reduced to a labor camp type experience.
Moral would drop, and revelution would occur.
Slave wage means something, and in an economy that generates trillions in revenue, where corporations aren't suffering, where they take out million dollar insurance policies on their own employees, send money off shore, evade taxes, receive bonuses in the millions for doing little, those who labor for them at least deserve high enough pay to be able to cover basic bills in life.
And it's sad that in this talk radio environment, these millionaire radio hosts have brainwashed their listeners into thinking common people who work and toil at retail, or janitorial, or small business (contract work), some how are baaaaaad, simply cause they don't make 6 figure incomes.
I'm around a lot of these lower wage earners who work hard, have good morals, yet keep falling further behind, while prices go up, yet pay drops or stays the same.
Fast food workers and Walmart workers have a right to demand more...these corporations enjoy selling goods to Americans, but don't want to pay Americans any money...
Spend spend spend, but could care the less that you live in a shack.
You're seeing people now have to work into their 60's and 70's, cause the bills never ever stop coming in.
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