Trading time for money is a central theme in the life of a middle, working class breadwinner. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, from the mechanic, to the programmer, from the landscaper to the home health aid, waitress, teacher, police officer, … Trading your time to someone else in order for them to give you money. Well, in short, I’m tired of trading time for money. The amount of time that I have is not without bounds. Realistically I have about 450,000 hours left in my life, and about 150,000 of them will be unconcience. This leaves me 300,000 hours. As of right now, I’m scheduled to spend roughly 100,000 of those hours toiling away for someone else’s benefit. This fact sickens me. I work at a publicly traded company and roughly 1/3 of my waking life from this point forward is scheduled to be spent doing things for the benefit of this company, for the benefit of the rich people who make up the majority of the stakeholders in this company. I am a mule plowing the fields of a fat farmer who watches from his porch.
As with all things in my life I now as the question… Why?
To Be Continued…
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