Working and bringing home the check that makes the housepayment and helps with some of the other bills, I find myself reflecting on the pleasures of working- and the pleasures of NOT working! Alas, in that reflection comes the notion that even though I am at an age where retirement should be looming within the future, it isn't. My income will continue to be needed. And not the paltry sum which is called Social Security.
I am the master of my ship, the captain of my soul. (invictus) How true is it or not?
As a working man, I find the pleasure of home and hearth are considerably more worthy than not having such! People refuse to work and so they panhandle. Those who want more from life than a streetcorner, find ways and groups who help them to get back on their feet. Who is on the street and wants off?
I may be a bit quick to judgment and don't mean to be. That may have sounded hard and callous, but I really don't mean to be. Actually I wonder, how can we as a society help keep people off the streets who do not want to be there? I don't know. By God's grace, we can make donations whenever we can, to those groups and organizations who can do something. In this respect, we can make a difference!
I am a working man and I don't want that to change.
But I know that there is a difference between those happily employed- and those who are emloyed but are unhappy! I keep hearing that you can find the job that won't feel like a job- that you should do what you love- and the money will follow!
So what do you love? What do you love SO MUCH that it would not feel like work to you, every day??
Now THAT is THE question!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Monday, July 28, 2008
NEVER UN-EMPLOYABLE
Aging has nothing to do with youthfulness! Youthfulness is in the mind of the beholder, or rather in the mind of the individual! You are as young as your mind feels or says you are... or as old as your body might be trying to convince your mind to be... or vice' versa.
Reality be told, our bodies age. Our minds do not necessarily age. Our minds go through a maturing process and takes in the scope of our emotions combined with the intellect. Maturity has no one measuring stick for everyone and everyone does not mature at the same pace. What may seem mature in a person might really be so- yet that person may be unbalanced in some other way.
Entering the workforce when we are "old enough", we change through the years and our expectations may change also. Money might mean everything to us... or may not! One thing remains to examine.
Do we retire when society thinks we should? Or do we obey that internal instinct, as to what is right for each one of us? Do our skills begin to fade and to fail? Does the ability to accomplish something with and in our lives diminish? Will we listen to our own thoughts and let our own instincts guide us? Or will we let others dictate how and what we shall do?
No one turns 65 or any other age and is suddenly un-employable. Or done living. Many feel that this IS the case. They are sadly mistaken. Something is broke within and it can be fixed. It can be mended.
Individualism. The strength or lack thereof, in character is the determining factor! Men and women who are strong and able to take a stand at any age on any issue... determine their own use to society. To their own decision to lead a productive, energetic, creative life!
Wow!
21, 35, 50... hike! Pass it down the field... catch it, run with it. The field goal is up to you!
It's my game and I go for a touch-down!
Reality be told, our bodies age. Our minds do not necessarily age. Our minds go through a maturing process and takes in the scope of our emotions combined with the intellect. Maturity has no one measuring stick for everyone and everyone does not mature at the same pace. What may seem mature in a person might really be so- yet that person may be unbalanced in some other way.
Entering the workforce when we are "old enough", we change through the years and our expectations may change also. Money might mean everything to us... or may not! One thing remains to examine.
Do we retire when society thinks we should? Or do we obey that internal instinct, as to what is right for each one of us? Do our skills begin to fade and to fail? Does the ability to accomplish something with and in our lives diminish? Will we listen to our own thoughts and let our own instincts guide us? Or will we let others dictate how and what we shall do?
No one turns 65 or any other age and is suddenly un-employable. Or done living. Many feel that this IS the case. They are sadly mistaken. Something is broke within and it can be fixed. It can be mended.
Individualism. The strength or lack thereof, in character is the determining factor! Men and women who are strong and able to take a stand at any age on any issue... determine their own use to society. To their own decision to lead a productive, energetic, creative life!
Wow!
21, 35, 50... hike! Pass it down the field... catch it, run with it. The field goal is up to you!
It's my game and I go for a touch-down!
TOO YOUNG TO RETIRE, TOO OLD TO BE JOB-HUNTING
Geriatrics anonymous I am not ready for! AARP I am a member of... but then, you can join them anytime, probably, and I did so not too long after I turned 50! Now, I am 59 and 60 rears its dangerous head with it's fangs open wide to strike fear and loathing into the hearts of the unemployed man I think I am!
Yes, unemployed for this moment, laid off last Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008, from Aquila/Perfect Output. No shame in that and I won't criticize either, because I enjoyed 7 years exactly, of outrageous good fortune and blessings at the hands of God! It was, in it's way, the best period of time in my life, as far as earnings are concerned! The temporal successes of this segment of my life were awesome, and by His Grace, can only go forward, onward and upward!
I am too young to retire and too old to be job-hunting- but, that's what's happening, baby! Life will go on, within me or without me! So it is my decision and choice that life will go on within me and working with the stream of time in which I swim, the currents will be manageable and I will find profitable shorelines to cast myself upon!
If I am swept into the middle of deep water and finally swept out to sea, then I know that I will soon find myself upon a beautiful island where the fruits of my labors to build something solid and profitable and uniquely different, will be productive!
Long sentences are one of my bad habits, but sometimes you just have to write'em the way you feel them! The critics are living large- but let them! They cannot seem to live and let live, but, some people need them.
Not exactly being a "jack-of-all-trades", my experiences are so numerous that its' tempting to say it. But ability being what it is, only needs to be harnessed to inspiration, creativity and drive- and things begin to happen!
Shall all of us "laid-off" people feel sorry for ourselves? Probably. At least for a little bit! Shall all of us who have lost jobs due to downsizing, and all the other words used to define a moment in history, get into a mode of depression, whining and otherwise just generally lamenting our situations? Sure. For a little bit!
But let us not stay there, not down and out, but let us get up and move. Pray, get busy and start doing something about living, getting our resumes out there- and thinking "outside the box"- because life goes on.
Within you or without you!
Yes, unemployed for this moment, laid off last Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008, from Aquila/Perfect Output. No shame in that and I won't criticize either, because I enjoyed 7 years exactly, of outrageous good fortune and blessings at the hands of God! It was, in it's way, the best period of time in my life, as far as earnings are concerned! The temporal successes of this segment of my life were awesome, and by His Grace, can only go forward, onward and upward!
I am too young to retire and too old to be job-hunting- but, that's what's happening, baby! Life will go on, within me or without me! So it is my decision and choice that life will go on within me and working with the stream of time in which I swim, the currents will be manageable and I will find profitable shorelines to cast myself upon!
If I am swept into the middle of deep water and finally swept out to sea, then I know that I will soon find myself upon a beautiful island where the fruits of my labors to build something solid and profitable and uniquely different, will be productive!
Long sentences are one of my bad habits, but sometimes you just have to write'em the way you feel them! The critics are living large- but let them! They cannot seem to live and let live, but, some people need them.
Not exactly being a "jack-of-all-trades", my experiences are so numerous that its' tempting to say it. But ability being what it is, only needs to be harnessed to inspiration, creativity and drive- and things begin to happen!
Shall all of us "laid-off" people feel sorry for ourselves? Probably. At least for a little bit! Shall all of us who have lost jobs due to downsizing, and all the other words used to define a moment in history, get into a mode of depression, whining and otherwise just generally lamenting our situations? Sure. For a little bit!
But let us not stay there, not down and out, but let us get up and move. Pray, get busy and start doing something about living, getting our resumes out there- and thinking "outside the box"- because life goes on.
Within you or without you!
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