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It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.

Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:

1. Income for dummies.

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?

Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?

Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.

Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

2. Limited experience.

You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.

The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?

Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?

3. Lifelong domestication.

Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.

Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?

How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?

Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?

Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…

4. Too many mouths to feed.

Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.

Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?

You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.

What a generous person you are!

5. Way too risky.

Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.

Morons.

Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.

Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?

The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.

6. Having an evil bovine master.

When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”

Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.

So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.

Who’s your daddy?

7. Begging for money.

When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?

Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?

If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”

8. An inbred social life.

Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.

If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!

9. Loss of freedom.

It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.

As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.

God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!

Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”

10. Becoming a coward.

Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.

When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.

I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!

Still want a job?

If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.

If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.

Happily jobless

What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.

tank -如果我变成回忆
作词:陈信延 施人诚作曲:tank

累了照惯例努力清醒着
也照惯例想你了
好怕一放心睡了
心跳在梦中不听话的
就停止了

听着呼吸像浪潮拍动着
越美丽越让我忐忑
我还能珍惜什么
如果我连自己的脉搏都难掌握


如果我变成回忆退出了这场生命

留下你错愕哭泣

我冰冷身体拥抱不了你

想到我让深爱的你人海孤独旅行

我会恨自己如此狠心

如果我变成回忆终于没那么幸运

没机会白着头发

蹒跚牵着你看晚霞落尽

漫长时光总有一天你会伤心痊愈

若有人可以让他陪你
我不怪你

快乐什么时候会结束呢
哪一刻是最后一刻
想把你紧紧抱着
可知你是我生命中的
最舍不得
如果我变成回忆最怕我太不争气
顽固地赖在空气
霸占你心里每一寸缝隙
连累依然爱我的你痛苦承受失去
这样不公平请你尽力
把我忘记

 

<如果我变成回忆，你的生命还要继续，愿我能象空气一样陪伴保护着你，看着你一直幸福快乐。。。。>

 

 

点名规则： A. 被点到的朋友要在自己的blog里写下自己的答案，然后去掉一个你最不喜欢的问题，再加上一个你的问题，仍然组成20个问题，传给其他8个人，列出这8个需要回答问题的人的名字，还要通知对方“你被点名了”！被点名者不得拒绝回答问题！完成游戏的人将会永远得到大家的祝福。 B. 这8个人要在自己的blog里注明是从哪里接到的，并且再传给其他8个人，让游戏继续下去，不得回传。被点到名字的人将会得到大家的祝福，并且所有美好的愿望都会在不久的将来实现。
        下面是我的答复：
   1. 最近最快乐的事情是什么?
   答：爱上了吃素和经络学，感觉自己精神状态越来越好了。
   2. 你记得父母的生日吗？
   答：必须的。
   3. 能告诉我活着对你最重要的事情是什么？
   答：好多事情都很重要，最重要的是充实有意义健康的生活。

   4. 最近最郁闷的事?
   答：离爸爸妈妈太远，不能常回家看看。
   5. 你理想中的幸福是什么样子？
   答：有人爱，有事做，有钱花

   6. 你最想去哪个地方？为什么？
   答：想去一切没有去过的地方旅行，外面的世界很精彩

   7. 如果你对过去所发生的任何事都有一次重新选择的机会，你会改变哪件事？
   答：早些开始好好学英语，现在就不那么费劲了。   
   8. 你最执着做的一件事?
   答：执着着让自己幸福快乐。
   9. 你希望自己以后要个小男孩还是小女孩？
   答：都可以。   
   10. 说说你自己的优点 
   答：相信美好

   11. 你会爱你另一半的缺点吗?
   答：不能说爱，应该说接纳，没有绝对的缺点。
   12. 你09年计划里最重要的事情是什么？实现了吗？
   答：身体健康，英语进步。ing状态。。。。
   13. 你对你的近况满意吗？有什么需要改变？
   答：还有改善的空间，希望即将到来的改变能让自己感觉充实有意义，能给我的家庭带来积极的影响。
   14. 工作重要还是生活重要？
   答：生活更重要些~
   15. 如果你的生活太平淡了，你会去改变它吗？
   答：会的

   16. 到现在为止，除了父母和爱人（包括恋人），谁是你最感激的人?
   答：帮助过我的人，肯定我的人。 
   17. 得到意味着什么？
   答：上帝又眷顾了我一次

   18. 如果明天就是世界末日，你希望跟谁在一起？
   答：没有想过这个问题，没有过这样绝望的念头，我有生之年不会有世界末日吧？

   19. 工作5年之内，如果有机会你会频繁跳槽吗？
   答：不喜欢频繁跳槽，我人比较慢热。。。。

   20. 会因为家人或者其他亲近的人的意见而改变自己的决定吗?
   答：一般不会，除非我真的错了。
删掉一道题目“说出点你名的人的3个优点？”（不难为被我点名的人了……）
加上的一道题目是“说说你自己的优点” （有多少说多少）
      
我从棒棒糖那里接到的，现在传给下面8位：

Sara,Florachen,sweetbecky he,Liying,Chenjing,david li, zhanglei,katherine Zou.

慧律法师《佛心慧语》 　　◆一个人，不能了解生命，生命对他来说是一种惩罚。
　　◆改变别人，不如先改变自己。
　　◆拥有财富的人，不如拥有智慧的人。
　　◆常常原谅自己的人，往往得不到上苍的原谅。
　　◆常常责备自己的人，往往能得到他人的谅解。
　　◆人很奇怪，不了解自己，却又每天想去干涉别人，弄得痛苦不堪。
　　◆人之所以痛苦，在于追求错误的东西。
　　◆有人的地方，就会有是非，把它看作很正常，你就不会难过，因为是——人嘛！
　　◆犯错是平凡的，原谅才能超凡。
　　◆任凭你有多大的快乐，无常总是来到。
　　◆制心一处，无事不办。
　　◆伤人之语，如水覆地，难以挽回。
　　◆大家都知道，生气是一种无知，又无济于事，可是又奈何不了它。正因为少‘悟’，放不下得失之故。
　　◆金钱化妆你的外表，佛法启悟你的内在。
　　◆五官刺激，不是真正的享受，‘内在安详’，才是下手之处。
　　◆自尊太强，优越感太重的人，将不堪一击，少许逆境，足以使他彻夜难眠。
　　◆嫉妒别人，仇视异己，就等于把生命交给别人。
　　◆诽谤他人就像含血喷人，先污染了自己的嘴巴。
　　◆轻信道听途说，就像一只傻狗，别人随便扔了一块石头就急忙跑去捡。
　　◆不能把握现在，就无法获得永恒。
　　◆人心不好，环保、治安自然不好。
　　◆遇到困难时不害怕，心中无事，是名真修。
　　◆时间总会过去的。
　　◆算命不如认命。
　　◆恨别人，痛苦的却是自己。
　　◆律己要严，待人要宽。
　　◆不要浪费你的生命，在你知道一定会后悔的地方。
　　◆怀着一颗感恩的心，忘记别人的缺点吧！
　　◆征服世界，并不伟大，一个人能征服自己，才是世界上最伟大的人。
　　◆平凡之人追求不平凡，智者则甘于平凡，却享受平凡。
　　◆能忍之人，事事称心；善嗔之人，时时地狱。
　　◆与其说你赚钱，不如说你被钱所赚，因为钱赚走了你的青春、时间、体力和生命。
　　◆有志气的人发一次愿，终身坚持。没志气的人天天发愿，浮而不实。
　　◆稻穗成熟，头自然低下。
　　◆事能知足心常惬，人到无求品自高。
　　◆有才而性缓定属大才，有智而气和斯为大智。
　　◆有德不在年高，无智空长百岁。
　　◆彻底的认识你自己，你就会认识佛。
　　◆因小果大，莫以恶小而为之，莫以善小而不为。
　　◆真正的布施，是把烦恼、忧虑、分别、执著，通通放下。
　　◆若无‘是非’挂心头，便是人间好时节。
　　◆扫地扫地扫心地，心地不扫空扫地。
　　◆透视一切变化的结果都是‘空’，就不会挂碍任何事物。
　　◆悟性是每个人的心，所以自己就是主宰。
　　◆各有因缘莫羡人。
　　◆肯低头的人，永远不会撞到矮门。
　　◆不让古人是谓有志，不让今人是谓无量。
　　◆生命是妄想的产物。
　　◆吾爱吾师，吾尤爱真理。
　　◆不要相信权威，权威有时也会错误。
　　◆为而不有，善而不居。
　　◆烦恼比岁月更易催人颜老。
　　◆常常使别人过快乐日子的人，自己也必定很快乐。
　　◆诽谤他人就像含血喷人，先污染了自己的嘴巴。
　　◆想编织未来的美梦，现在正是时候。
　　◆千人千般苦，苦苦不相同。
　　◆向人低头，不曾矮小过。
　　◆作福莫如惜福，悔过莫如寡过。
　　◆量大福大。
　　◆遇顺境处之淡然，遇逆境处之泰然。
　　◆风平浪静，训练不出良好的水手。
　　◆填得饱你的肚子，却填不满人心贪念。
　　◆面对现实，逆境也会变为顺境，总有机会转机。逃避现实，虽暂时偷安，但没有翻身余地。
　　◆甩掉你的假面具，你就能享受到自然的喜悦。
　　◆凡夫转境不转心，圣人转心不转境。
　　◆过去，已成过去，它只是记忆的残影。
　　◆智者知幻即离，愚者以幻为真。
　　◆一念放下，万般自在。
　　◆黄金无种子，惟生于勤俭之家。
　　◆世界上的每一个人都在追求快乐，但却没有人真正了解什么是快乐。
　　◆知因果即知进退，知悟性即得‘开心果’。
　　◆圣以正觉为习惯，众生却以烦恼为习惯。
　　◆家里的垃圾知清倒，内心的垃圾（贪、嗔、痴）不知‘倒’。
　　◆学悟的孩子不变坏，学悟的老人不痴呆，学悟的少年永不败。
　　◆智者善植因果。
　　◆圣人可以掌握时空，而凡夫却被时空所限制。
　　◆真正的看破是提起，积极地为大众服务。
　　◆诚恳可以感动人，谦虚可以说服人。
　　◆老实是很平淡的字眼，但是要想成就，就非它不行。
　　◆犯了过错，造了罪业，别人知不知道并不重要，最重要的是自己知道。
　　◆善于保护自己的，永远谦虚谈话。
　　◆好、坏，都会随时间消失，没有例外。上苍对时间的安排，绝对平等。
　　◆临事须替别人想，论人先将自己想。
　　◆‘悟’，就是要在心中留点空间，好作回旋。
　　◆失去了鸭子，你会急忙找回来，失去了良心，却不见有人著急。
　　◆心志要苦，意趣要乐，气度要宏，言动要谨。
　　◆言多必失，尽量少给自己这种机会。
　　◆赞叹别人，要在大庭广众；责备人，必须在私下。
　　◆有智慧的人，从周围取乐，没有智慧的人，希望别人给予快乐。
　　◆贪心，你的嘴脸，就是贫穷相。
　　◆色心不除，生死不了。
　　◆有生必有死，人应惧生，不应惧死。无生即无死，究竟解脱。
　　◆忍人所不能忍，行人所不能行。
　　◆作事不怕不成，只怕无恒。
　　◆一个人如果不被恶习所染，幸福近矣！
　　◆我思故我在，我观故自在。
　　◆人必须在自我中觉醒，才能破除我执。
　　◆凡有追求，必定有烦恼。
　　◆学悟，就是要你认识自己，找到永恒的生命。
　　◆要搞好个人的卫生，尤其‘心理卫生’最为重要。
　　◆得失心不放下，想要不痛苦，都不可能。
　　◆世界上有一种生意，永远是亏本，那就是发脾气。
　　◆有了智慧，自然能了解真理，能了解真理，生活自然快乐。
　　◆鱼生活在水中，所以我们见不着他的泪。
　　◆真正的神通，是把烦恼弄通。
　　◆是非的原则是将心比心，设身处地的为他人想一想。
　　◆健康，是真正的财富，不要糟蹋它。
　　◆我慢高山，不留德水。
　　◆悟是教育家，不是政治家。他慈悲地教导众生，从不控制众生。
　　◆是非天天有，不听自然无。
　　◆愚人求境不求心，智者求心不求境。
　　◆为人正直，则与道相应。
　　◆见一切人皆圣人，唯我一人是凡夫，则心自息怒。
　　◆德修而谤来； 来谤而修德！
　　◆缘由愿来，愿力强，善缘自然具足。
　　◆再大的功德，抵不过一念骄心；再大的罪过，抵不过一个悔字。
　　◆人忙心不盲，即是有定力。
　　◆山不转路转，境不转心转。
　　◆世间一切，为我所用，非我所有。
　　◆觉悟真理的人，即拥有真正的生命。
　　◆体会到生命无常的人，便不会再放荡和贪逸，所以说对于生命无常的觉醒是智慧的开端。