Sorry for the late response...I've been busy with my recent endevours in the digital world of video games. More about that in an upcoming video.
Hoping that your surgery went well and that you're on the path to recovering. How is it all coming along? And how is your Son? Please send him my regards, and to his personal family too.
Right on, there's many lessons i've learnt from your response!
While doing all this work took time, I discovered that spending 40 or 60 hours a week at an actual job cost me money, that the wages I received as an employee didn't cover. Adding work for my neighbors to the work I was doing on my properties didn't take that much time, and did pay enough to fund my personal projects and make spending the time on it worthwhile. I was surprised that having a job cost me money!
You know in all my life, i have never stayed with a job more than 6 months out of principle. I figured out very early on in my fuck-about days that the corperate rat race is not for me. You want me to fit into the Chinese stereo type of being a Doctor, Lawyer, University Lecturer or even start my own damn Chinese takeaway? FUCK DAT!!!! The thought of me scared (and still scares me) to this day.
The rat race is set up like this, one of the many control mechanisms placed there intentionally to dull the aspirations of people by replacing these aspirations for living life how it should be lived, with lust, consumerism, the-next-dopamine-rush, and an artificial sense (illusion?) of progression in life. So i took to the road and lived semi-nomadically all throughout my late teens, all throughout my 20s, right up til the 30th year of being on this wonderful Earth.
Now, after 4 years of being locked down (hard lockdowns as we've experienced, and now these soft forms of "lockdowns" with everything getting expensive, money not easy to save, unemployment issues, changes in travel including visa's and working permits, etc etc), i find myself trapped in this place. I still have my eye on the fire exit, but it's a slow drag to get back to the place i was in my 20s. Free, on the road, no obligations, no drama, no trouble, just me, my walking boots, a backpack and the road.
The game is set up this way and i hope we all find a way to get outta it, because as you say, it costs too much to be part of corporate "normal" society. Not only monetarily, but beyond that too.
The trick for me was to add providing services to neighbors to the time and expense I was already undertaking for my personal projects, which made the cost of being able to provide those services to them essentially zero, other than the time it took. I had to have the equipment anyway. There was no advertising beyond the improvements to my property observed by my neighbors and drinking at the local tavern daily**** where my antics became a topic of discussion. Doing this business on the side only cost me the time it took to do it, while the equipment I needed became tax deductible as business expenses to defray the cost of all my personal projects, even when the business itself took a loss. I started a lot of businesses to do one job, and all of those businesses failed on paper because they only lasted for the one job or ten. There was a while where I was starting a business every day. Helping folks do things just became a part of getting the things done I needed to do organically, rather than anything I needed to plan and fund.
This i need your counsel on. I too have a broad range of skills (my weakest skillset is in permaculture, DIY, Carpentry and general trade skills like electrical wiring, plumbing etc - but i'm learning!) that is mainly based around the arts and people (i also come from an extensive background in Hospitality).
I am unsure how best to put my skillset to use in this current world-situation. I had a good idea when the world was relatively "smooth", but now things are rougher by the day and i find myself at a loss. I have aspirations to make my small slice of the world a better place, including the people around me, but there are so many obstructions.
I have a schematic of how i will uproot myself from this bollocks, but further counsel would be appreciated.
I have my eye on a few countryside communities i'd like to revisit, and rekindle our lost contact, so i feel thats where i need to be. In a place where i can re-invigorate my skillset, to do less corporate rat race stuffs and live more.
I cannot abide cities. I was raised in wilderness, and that's where I belong. In rural communities the personal relationships are more valuable, and money is less forthcoming, so that's a trade off, but I find it all to the good.
When things are roughest is when comfort is most desirable. I dunno what you have in mind, but that's a principle that always holds true. It is the rarest things that are most valuable, the things hardest to do that are most desirable to them than cannot get them done. If they can't be done, then do what can be done. Whatever is most lacking is what is most needed.
Edit: I have not had the surgery, all sorts of impediments have arisen. An additional medical need has arisen I will not be able to meet, because of financial costs in excess of $200k. Now I'm being extorted by a multinational bank, on top of everything else. All has gone awry, so I went and did some work for an elderly man who had no running water, and now he has running water. I prefer goodwill to good money all the way.
Thanks for asking after my son. He requested the name of a book I read him when he was a child. I remembered him laughing so hard he had tears running down his cheeks at the series of books by Keith Laumer about Retief the Galactic Diplomat. Good times.
Hey @valued-customer !
Sorry for the late response...I've been busy with my recent endevours in the digital world of video games. More about that in an upcoming video.
Hoping that your surgery went well and that you're on the path to recovering. How is it all coming along? And how is your Son? Please send him my regards, and to his personal family too.
Right on, there's many lessons i've learnt from your response!
You know in all my life, i have never stayed with a job more than 6 months out of principle. I figured out very early on in my fuck-about days that the corperate rat race is not for me. You want me to fit into the Chinese stereo type of being a Doctor, Lawyer, University Lecturer or even start my own damn Chinese takeaway? FUCK DAT!!!! The thought of me scared (and still scares me) to this day.
The rat race is set up like this, one of the many control mechanisms placed there intentionally to dull the aspirations of people by replacing these aspirations for living life how it should be lived, with lust, consumerism, the-next-dopamine-rush, and an artificial sense (illusion?) of progression in life. So i took to the road and lived semi-nomadically all throughout my late teens, all throughout my 20s, right up til the 30th year of being on this wonderful Earth.
Now, after 4 years of being locked down (hard lockdowns as we've experienced, and now these soft forms of "lockdowns" with everything getting expensive, money not easy to save, unemployment issues, changes in travel including visa's and working permits, etc etc), i find myself trapped in this place. I still have my eye on the fire exit, but it's a slow drag to get back to the place i was in my 20s. Free, on the road, no obligations, no drama, no trouble, just me, my walking boots, a backpack and the road.
The game is set up this way and i hope we all find a way to get outta it, because as you say, it costs too much to be part of corporate "normal" society. Not only monetarily, but beyond that too.
This i need your counsel on. I too have a broad range of skills (my weakest skillset is in permaculture, DIY, Carpentry and general trade skills like electrical wiring, plumbing etc - but i'm learning!) that is mainly based around the arts and people (i also come from an extensive background in Hospitality).
I am unsure how best to put my skillset to use in this current world-situation. I had a good idea when the world was relatively "smooth", but now things are rougher by the day and i find myself at a loss. I have aspirations to make my small slice of the world a better place, including the people around me, but there are so many obstructions.
I have a schematic of how i will uproot myself from this bollocks, but further counsel would be appreciated.
I have my eye on a few countryside communities i'd like to revisit, and rekindle our lost contact, so i feel thats where i need to be. In a place where i can re-invigorate my skillset, to do less corporate rat race stuffs and live more.
Thanks again for your time!
I cannot abide cities. I was raised in wilderness, and that's where I belong. In rural communities the personal relationships are more valuable, and money is less forthcoming, so that's a trade off, but I find it all to the good.
When things are roughest is when comfort is most desirable. I dunno what you have in mind, but that's a principle that always holds true. It is the rarest things that are most valuable, the things hardest to do that are most desirable to them than cannot get them done. If they can't be done, then do what can be done. Whatever is most lacking is what is most needed.
Edit: I have not had the surgery, all sorts of impediments have arisen. An additional medical need has arisen I will not be able to meet, because of financial costs in excess of $200k. Now I'm being extorted by a multinational bank, on top of everything else. All has gone awry, so I went and did some work for an elderly man who had no running water, and now he has running water. I prefer goodwill to good money all the way.
Thanks for asking after my son. He requested the name of a book I read him when he was a child. I remembered him laughing so hard he had tears running down his cheeks at the series of books by Keith Laumer about Retief the Galactic Diplomat. Good times.