Fri 30 Apr 2010
I almost reached a breaking point a few weeks ago. I had multiple pointless projects at school due, multiple high consequence projects at work due and a multitude of activities with the family. I recently received a curt e-mail asking why I hadn’t volunteered at some school activity my kids are supposed to be participating in and the honest answer is that the same school has pinged us for MULTIPLE tasks at the same event.
In an era with high unemployment you would think there would be plenty of volunteers to do something but the same dually employed families are asked to do the volunteer work over and over again. So I’ve been busting my butt at school and at work and getting curt e-mails from my third and fourth non-paying jobs and keep reading about people living it up mortgage free in homes they couldn’t afford living off the government dime.
Seriously, I’m thinking of becoming a tea bagger…or whatever those tea people call themselves these days. Better yet, I might become a loafer and just live off the government dime myself. All I need to do is pay off my mortgage (which would be easy), quit my job and just hang out waiting for volunteers, tax payers and everyone else to take care of me and not have a worry in the world.
I’ve finally caught a bit of a break and am almost done with my second semester at MBA school and as I write this, I have serious doubts I will return in the fall. It simply isn’t worth it anymore since the program is fairly uninspiring, boring, pointless and trivial yet consumes so much of my time.
The consequences of all of the other bullshit though are going to hit like a Niagara water fall over the next few years when 80 million boomers become loafers and won’t or can’t work. I can hardly wait….
May 4th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Volunteers have to see the purpose of volunteering, the wisdom to reinvest in the community that supported them. When individuals cannot see the wisdom to invest in themselves that’s not happening. We are a nation fragmenting more and more with the technology to talk around the world but not to the neighbors next door. There are fliers up around school for ‘cleaning up the environment’ by picking up litter along roads. I’m good, picked up enough trash during my four years in the marines, met my quota for community service for a little while.
Reminds me of the men I see in the community college I attend. One in particular last week was complaining about how a girl went for his friend with a car and a job, while he lives with his parents and has neither. Yet working a part time job for ten hours a week would give him both, but that requires hanging out for less hours with friends and less video games. I had to fight the uncontrollable urge not to burst out laughing as he and his friend were talking dead serious about the ‘bro intervention’ they were going to have with their ‘friend’ to have the girl dumped so he could ‘get with her.’ I’m thinking ‘what the heck man, get a job. Oh wait, that’s america, that’s right you should ‘fix’ the unfair advantage of the man with a job and a plan who’s holding you back from ‘success.’
What boggles my mind is that we have more tvs than people in houses now, article sourced below. Makes me sad.
Source site of ratios below.