Jobs, career, and slavery
We validate, rationalize, corroborate each others lives
Pat my back and I’ll pat yours, benevolent conquistadors.
–We March to Beat of an Indifferent Drum by NOFX
Welcome to the great lie: Working for others. We spend our entire childhoods being trained in the skills we will need to work for other people and function in a business environment As we reach young adulthood we are taught that who we are will be defined by the career we pursue. It’s reflected back at you every time you tell someone what you do for a living and see how they change the way they treat you. As you sit at your desk slowly your dreams and ideals start to fade and eventually your sense of individuality begins to flag as well. You didn’t want or expect it to happen; indeed it was hard to say when it happened - it just seemed to be there one day. Like a snake swallowing its prey, it happened a little bit at a time.
The Matrix put it well in saying “Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.”
Thats what happens to many people working in their jobs. Everything about a corporate environment is designed to build that prison for your mind. The rules. The dress code. The schedual. The politics. Hell you sit in a small box - At least at the zoo the animals are allowed to walk around without getting in trouble!
When you have to obey and are bound to your job by the whip of bills then you are no longer free. You’ve become a slave of the mind. The scariest part is that most people don’t know it and willingly accept all the shackles designed to keep them in their place. They ignore it long enough and eventually it doesn’t feel like pain anymore… in fact they don’t feel much of anything at all. By repressing their own creativity and individuality they are choosing to become slaves.
Choosing the entrepreneurial path is more than just being your own boss and doing something that you’re passionate about. It’s about reclaiming your freedom. No more policy manuals and no more having to be politically correct watching your every move for fear of punishment. When you can tell someone you think they’re an idiot and not risk getting fired - then you’ll know what it’s like to be free again.
Tags: career, entrepreneur, freedom, job, slavery
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 am
Some job-seekers thinks that we spend our entire childhoods being trained in the skills we will need to work for other people but this is a wrong way to think like that. They don’t know that trainings in childhood and the trainings before are for the capacity of human beans to learn. On his entire lifetime the humans are learning and learning an learning. By the multitude of trainings we learn how to achieve our future best qualities.