Here are my thoughts on what a young man can do to build up his life when he exits school. It does not matter if the school is college, High School, or elementary school. There comes a point in time when you need to make the transition from a student to a worker.
Everyone has their thoughts on this. Here are mine.
...And I had so many misconceptions about how the world worked. For example, I thought that in any… Because I had seen it in other fields. I thought that if you are successful in a particular line of work, a particular area, that everybody in that area kind of acknowledges it, recognizes it, and respects it and welcomes you in? Ho-ho-ho. Is that ever not true! -Rush Limbaugh
What Can we do?
If you are a millennial, and you do want to work and provide a living, but cannot. There is some hurdle in the way; some problem. Maybe you don’t even know what it is. You have zero guidance. It’s just a big blank slate.
What to do?
(laughing) It turns out it’s the exact opposite. I was a fool. I was so naive about things. Now, it didn’t take me long to figure it all out, but I wish I would have known some of it before I began this... Nobody that I knew was able to tell me how to deal with it, how to respond to it, how to deflect it, how to ignore it, whatever to do. Nobody told me. -Rush Limbaugh
Here is what you do. You need to seek out help and advice. Do not try to do it on your own. Ask for help. Keep asking until someone helps you. People will brush you off. Ignore them. Get answers get help.
Do not be passive about it. Ask for help. Go to different people. Go one by one. Keep on trying. Keep going until you have someone willing to help you.
Don’t try to do it the hard way, on your own. Seek guidance. Go to a favorite uncle. Ask your father, or your grandfather. Ask. Never be afraid to ask.
Go to a crowded barber shop and ask. You will hear all kinds of bullshit, but through all that bullshit, you will find one or two men who will genuinely offer help and suggestions.
Talk with other men. Heck, I am always willing to take hardworking people under my wing.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. -Ray Bradbury
Education
All my life I was taught, by my father, to get a good education. That education will in turn, enable me to get a “great job”. In which case, I will be “set for life” because I would be valuable to the person employing me.
Hogwash.
It sucks working for another person. That person, can and will tell you how to live your life, and will hold your family income over your head like the sword of Damocles. They will use you as they feel fit and discard you when they are through with you.
Some experiences I had…
- Working 1.5 hours every day, all week, but only during the busy time of the day. They wanted 150% efficiency from me, and nothing else.
- When I won a round trip airline ticket to Europe for the weekend, my boss told me that if I used it that he would fire me.
- Time and time again, I was let go… fired with ZERO notice. Three times it was on a Christmas eve. Once, in Shreveport, it was a half-an-hour after I received my award for “Best Employee of the Month”.
- Having my monthly salary cut to zero because a co-worker made a mistake.
Listen up!
Education serves but one, and only one purpose.
That purpose is to give you advantage. If you do not get anything or any advantage, then that education has zero benefit to you.
Jay started off by asking the crowd if it was weird for them to be listening to a speech by him, since he had never attended university. To him, being extraordinary and to be able to stand in front of everyone does not depend on how much one has studied, but rather, if he has a strong skill set. He named a few of his peers who did not study much, but whose work have been taught in university classes. Advice: Having a particular skillset that you are good at is more important than how much you study. -Five Lessons form Jay Chou
Money gives you Ability
A young man needs to work. He needs to carve out his life, and do it on his terms. That takes money.
The first thing you need to do is get a job; any job. Start getting money into your pocket.
Start putting money in your wallet.
Keep in mind that the hardest and most unpopular jobs pay the best. That might mean that you might need to wash windows in a skyscraper. You might need to crawl inside of a railroad container car and scrub it out. You might need to empty industrial waste, or scrub toxic biological germs out of a hospital. You might need to work from three in the morning to seven in the morning cleaning up an office building. You might need to shovel pig shit, or determine the sex of chickens (you shove your pinky in the rectum of a chicken).
It doesn’t matter what you do. Work. Get some money and save it.
Save the money you earn. You will need it later.
Don’t be under the impression that I didn’t do what I had to do. I did the ugly stuff, and the difficult stuff, and I smiled when I did it too. That’s life.
You will come home with blood-blisters on your hands, and so tired that your hands shake. You deal with it. Your neck might be so sunburned from the hot sun that when you put on a shirt the searing pain might cause you to pass out. Your hands might be so covered with oil and grease that it would be impossible to clean them entirely. The gasoline stains in your clothes might be so terrible that they never come out. Your girlfriend might want sex, but you are too tired to service her. Hey, that is life, if you are a man. That is what real work is.
The entire time while you are working and saving, plan. Remember that you are a Man. You plan.
Men plan, and map out the life that they will live.
Plan on how you can use that money to improve your work situation. Don’t fall into the corporate trap; you get a good high-paying job and plateau. That is a trap that you will never get out of. Don’t use the money to enhance your life. That you can hold off for a year or two. Just concentrate on a real (short) intense period of making your life happen.
Plan.
Keep going forward. Some days it will seem that you are hardly making any progress. Ignore that. Just keep going. Do not give up.
Keep this in mind. You need to do is understand that everything around you is fake. The news is fake (unless you are still part of the 0.000001% who still thinks that Donald Trump is a Russian spy). The food is fake. The taxes and the promises of what they will be used for is… fake. You are in the world. Fight for what you need. Fight, and don’t give up. You will make it.
- The first and most important thing that a young person can do today is to make money.
- This is your task. Find a way to put money into your pocket. Then once you get that money HOLD ON TO IT.
- Money can be easily squandered. Do not let that happen to you. You get the money, and you stash it away safely.
Do not follow the Herd
No. Don’t follow the herd.
Do not do what the rest of the people are doing. You ONLY what will benefit YOU. Life is not a some-size-fits-all. You take the opportunities as they present themselves to you. If college will help you achieve your goals, then go do it. If it doesn’t then do something else.
Growing up, Jay realized that he wasn’t one for studying hard. Instead of fighting that, he chose to pursue his interests of learning to play the piano and basketball. If not for his interest in piano and music, he wouldn’t have ended up where he is today. If not for his interest in basketball, he wouldn’t have ended up filming “Kung Fu Dunk”. The interests he had when he was younger made him who he is today, but he could only connect those dots looking backwards. Advice: Pursue your interests and life will take care of itself. -Five lessons from Jay Chou
When I went to college, it was at a time when only a handful of people could attend. The education was valuable and you could obtain a job based on your studious efforts. That is not the case today.
Everyone can go.
Today everyone can go to college. As such, you just become a debt-serf in the process. Today, we really need to see if this is what is in your best interests. Are you willing to become a debt-serf and give a huge percentage of any money you earn to a bank AFTER you give a huge percentage of your money to the government in taxes? Think about it. College might not be right for YOU.
Take a good long and hard look at what your options are. Only go to college if there is a very strong chance that you can benefit from it. Otherwise, I would suggest some other avenue of approach.
Today, I look at my High School classmates. You know, the ones that I went to school with a half a century ago.
Today, the rich ones are actually the ones who started their own stores, gas stations, laundromats, and tie-dyed tee-shirt shops. These were the “average” kids in school. They just started a simple business. They worked at it. Rain, or shine. Now they are all quite wealthy. They are, and have always been, their own bosses.
Meanwhile, the smart ones, those of us who attended college, are “professionals”. Like me, I suppose. Yeah. However, the fact is that we generally live “hand-to-mouth” at the whims of market forces. Without a doubt, our employers often don’t give a “Rat’s ass” about our lives. Up-sized, laid off, down sized, restructured, renegotiated positions… it’s all the same. It sucks to be a worker for someone else.
Do NOT be like me. Be your own boss.
Options:
- Learn a TRADE; plumbing, electricity, construction…
- Join the military; Coast Guard, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force…Join a Union
- Apprentice
- Take over a Family Business
- Start you own business
- Community College
- Crash courses and take night classes while you work
- Work with key friends and start a business
College and Universities are now flooded with people, thus diluting the job pool. Further they teach you how to work for someone else. You become a well-taught monkey, or an obedient drone in a big, big mega-corporation.
You will NEED to be an exceptional person to survive the market trends when you leave college. Instead, consider using the four years (normally reserved for college) to strike out on your own, and give you advantage.
That’s the key. That’s the secret.
You need ADVANTAGE.
'Imagine you're at a concert, and you stand up to see better. Now imagine if everybody stands up.' I already did imagine that which is why I didn't purchase a $100 concert ticket, and I instead purchased the album and stayed home. -MusicIsYou
Here are some ideas on how to obtain advantage…
Be Positive and Kind
The world is full or grouchy old stogies like myself, and young bucks that haven’t a clue. Don’t be like us. The secret of success in this world is an open heart and a willingness to learn. Be kind, and everything will work out.
Turn off the news. It’s full of bullshit.
Tone down the social media. Most people on it, you wouldn’t want to share a pizza with, so why waste your time chatting with them? Shut off your negative friends. Life is too short.
Put only good stuff in your body. That is the stuff that you like, and to hell with everyone else. Don’t listen to anyone else. Follow your heart.
That means good food, good water, good thoughts and surround yourself with the good in his world.
For the longest time, especially when I was down and the world seemed to be against me, I would listen to motivational tapes. Listen to Les Brown. Keep your outlook positive. Follow your dream. Do not get sidetracked. Follow it.
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” ― Les Brown
Follow you dream. Do not allow anyone to tell you that you cannot have it.
My background was from my time. This is YOUR time, and you are a direct result of it. It is neither right nor wrong. It is just simply what it is.
As such, you need to make the most of it.
There is one important step that you need to take to claim this as yours; be kind.
Be a Man
In a cutthroat world, it is refreshing to meet a man who keeps his word, looks another in the eye, shakes your hand solidly and says what he means. You can choose to be the man that you want to be, or you can be the image of what others want you to be. It’s your choice.
If you don’t know what I am talking about, watch the movie “Bronco Billy”. Learn from it.
- Speak with integrity.
- Say only what you mean.
- Never say anything negative about yourself.
- Never say anything bad about anyone else.
- Never be afraid of hurting someone else’s feelings. That’s their problem.
Start today. Start NOW.
Act like an American
I like to say, “Act like an American”, but over the years this saying has turned into a insult. I blame socialist progressives rewriting the narrative. Never the less, when I suggest that you “Act like an American” I mean this…
If you, the reader, are unaware of the saying and what it means then I strongly suggest that you have been propagandized and manipulated by a false narrative and bogus history. Isn’t it great about the internet? You can rewrite anything when you control the history books!
Ha! What are you? (Are you) a socialist puppet parroting the common narrative or a free man living life on your terms? You choose. Be the parrot, or be who YOU are.
If you want to carve out your life, then you will need to saw off those chains that limit you.
Do not take anything personally
Which brings me up to this important point; don’t take anything personally.
Jay never took failure as an acceptable outcome. When the songs he wrote for other artists were rejected, he used them and sang them himself. Several of those songs have become instant hits with people and fans around the world. Advice: Be the best in your field; do not give in to failure. -Five lessons from Jay Chou
Nothing that other people do is because of you. When another person does something, they do it, based on their decisions. They make those decisions based on their knowledge, emotions and personality. If you had any role in it, it would have been a terribly tiny one.
When others blame you, know that they are just using rhetoric . It is a technique to manipulate you. It is a technique used to control you. It plays with your emotions and often results in things that are not in your favor. Do not believe them.
Stay away from people who blame you, condemn you, and make your life miserable. Real men avoid them. Be a real man. You know guys, sometimes you need to cut off an arm when bitten by a rattlesnake.
Don’t make Assumptions
For you to be successful, you will need to be able to communicate.
If you don’t know something, ask. If you want something, ask for it. If there is something that you need, communicate.
You need to have the courage to ask questions and express what you need. You need to do so clearly. Otherwise, you risk misunderstanding and drama.
Remember this; if you do not ask the answer will always be no.
- If you want a job, ask for it.
- If you like a girl and want to be with her, ask her out for lunch.
- If you want a raise, ask for it.
- If you want an extra straw for your soda, ask for it.
- If you want to live in a nice house, ask about it.
Take note that some people enjoy drama, and will pretend not to understand you. It is a form of manipulation. Avoid these people. They have nothing to offer you.
Go to Church
If you read some of my other posts, you might be surprised in this. Yet it is true. We need religion and ritual. We need to connect with a higher power and a higher sense of purpose. We need God.
This isn’t an option. We as human beings need, NEED, God in our life.
You might have the entire world up against you. You might be dirt poor. You might be alone and full with negative people. You might be starving, but there is one place where you will be welcome NO MATTER WHAT. Go to church.
Go to church.
I’m not going to preach to you. I just suggest that you go to a place that will not judge you. I suggest you go to a place that will welcome you with open arms.
If I would be so bold, I would suggest an “Assembly of God”. They tend to be very open to new faces. I have attended a wonderful Baptist church in Corpus Christi, and a fantastic Methodist church in Erie.
You might need to “shop around”, but go and seek out a church for yourself. There are churches full of busybodies, and churches that are just “old”. Go to a church that has life, one that is full of people in your age group.
Maybe the church of your parents just doesn’t fit you, well do not let that limit you. Explore and try to understand. God is greater than any of us. Give yourself up and meet others who are exactly like you.
I suggest that you go to church, worship God and join the community there. You might be surprised what you will find there.
Do your Best
By doing your best, you can accept failure.
You will find out that your “best” is going to change from minute to minute. There will be days when you are super healthy and will be able to take on the world, and then there will be days when you cannot. It will be different when you are healthy as opposed when you are sick. If you know that you did everything you could at the time, then you know that your defeat was beyond your ability (at that time).
Under any and all circumstances, simply do your best.
Do your best. Keep trying. Keep on doing your best. You will make mistakes. You will face failures. You will hear from everyone else telling you that you were a fool, a dupe, a rube, and just plain stupid. It doesn’t matter. Just keep doing your best.
Don’t believe them.
The successful people NEVER tell you this. This is what unsuccessful people say. When these losers tell you that you have failed, do what I do. I recite a poem, snort quietly (with disdain), smile, and leave. Never look back. Don’t pause no matter what they say to your back. Just leave.
They usually stand there perplexed not understanding what just transpired.
The formula for individual success is well proven and documented. Do not give up. Keep to your plan. Keep working it. Avoid distractions and keep moving forward. It will be alright. It will work out fine. Things will be ok.
No Excuses
"We have been destroying most of the chances any young White Male has to get ahead for decades. I especially like how old men will talk about how they made it with nothing in their pocket and traveling to a new city when they were young. I always think "Ya try that today". I am an X'r myself and I can see how much easier I had it over these kids today. Sure the bright top 1% still manage but we have placed so many blockers in front of young White Men these days it's a wonder they haven't turned on us by now." -Beltain
Do not use any excuses for anything. Forget about race. Forget about ability. Forget about what other people are doing. Forget what your friends say. Forget it all.
Do not compare yourself to anyone or anything. Focus on one thing at a time. Focus like a laser beam, and don’t give up
Never give up.
Never. Ever. Ever. Ever. E.V.E.R. give up. Fight for what you want.
Be a MAN.
Fight, and fight, and fight, and fight.
When it gets hard, keep it up. Don’t give up. No excuses.
Be the robot that will never give up. You get punched down, and you get right back up and keep on fighting.
Fight. Fight HARD. Never give up.
Even if you are on your knees, and are being pummeled left and right, keep it up. Don’t give up.
Keep fighting.
Fight until you cannot. As you lie there, blood running from between your smashed teeth, open your one swollen eye, push yourself up off the floor. And keep on fighting.
Never give up. Never Surrender.
The girl says no.
You ask her out again. She might say no, yet again.
Wait a day or two. Ask her out again.
Don’t be a stalker. Just be nice and friendly. Tell her that you like her and you just want to share a coffee or a meal and talk. Expect nothing else. Keep on trying.
Keep trying.
Never give up.
Sometimes it works. I asked a girl out every day for two weeks before she finally went out with me. We’ve been married 51+ years. -chaosagent
Aside from obtaining your goals and objectives, you might find that your ability to get what you desire is extremely attractive to the opposite sex.
Worked for my son-in-law. He asked my daughter out...she said no, he would wait a month or so and ask again. She said the reason she did not want to date him is he was over confident to the point she thought he was “cocky” and she didn’t like men like that. One day she said yes, after she dated him she realized he was not a jerk just confident. Today they are happily married with a son. -Tammy8
Don’t be a wimp. Be a fighter.
Opportunity
By being “out there” and trying, your efforts WILL be noticed.
You can say that others might notice, or you can say that the “spirits” will notice. Whatever. You will be noticed, and opportunity comes from hard work.
Opportunities arise from effort.
When an opportunity does come up, give it EVERYTHING you have. It will come. It will probably be unexpected, and will not be what you intended. It doesn’t matter. Treat each opportunity as exactly what it is and grab it like a starving dog with a bone. Hold on and don’t ever let go of it.
Do your best. You must. Come in early, work better faster and harder than everyone else. Don’t complain. Smile a lot. Be the best worker that you can be. Be the best; get so good at your job that you are “invaluable”. Become important in your role.
Again. Do your best.
You must.
Come in early, work better faster and harder than everyone else.
Don’t complain.
Smile a lot.
Be the best worker that you can be. Be the best; get so good at your job that you are “invaluable”.
Become important in your role.
My company just hired this new 18 year old kid, a real go-getter, always getting up on your grill asking meaningful and relevant questions and actually trying to learn the trade. He's always watching to see how you do things and then wanting (if not demanding!) a crack at it himself. That's one thing I don't mind a young kid demanding: go for it dude, I sense that you've watched me enough and can do it to a quality standard. At the end of the day I don't even have to ask the kid to grab a broom, he just sweeps and packs up tools. He'll really work out. Says he's saving to buy a house and, you know what, he'll have it by the time he's 21 or so without all the college debt and the brainwashed mind. -Zero Hedge comment by Mazzy
Make the person who gave you that opportunity feel good about you. Doors will open wider for you.
Role Models
My dad was a great, flawed, successful failure of a man who taught me many things. He loved us but he was mean, he took care of us but he was cheap, he was fun to be around and a nightmare. He was social but had hangups, he divorced my mom but never abandoned us. He was a showman, a curmudgeon, a viper, a friend, an enemy. A complicated man who enjoyed simple things. About as easy to understand as a rubic's cube. I miss that magnificent bastard. -Three Lessons in Economics that I Learned from my Dad
You should have a good role model to emulate. I am not talking about fictional characters like Tony Sopranos, or Rocky Balboa. I am talking about real flesh and blood individuals who lived life on their terms. I for one, admire the “Rat Pack”. But you can decide who you would like to emulate.
Find a guide. A sure way to get lost in the woods is to explore an unknown area without a guide. In business, find a mentor to guide you through the wilderness.
What ever you do, don’t be a raunchy playboy like Justin Bieber, or some metro-sexual like Barrack Obama.
Choose someone who defines life on their own terms. Like, perhaps, that fellow who landed on the beach on D-Day wearing a kilt and carrying a broad sword. Or, maybe like this man. Here is a man who lived life to the fullest. I can only wish that someone would write up my biography with such amazing aplomb.
Irishman Dies from Stubbornness, Whiskey 14DEC16
Chris Connors died, at age 67, after trying to box his bikini-clad hospice nurse just moments earlier. Ladies man, game slayer, and outlaw Connors told his last inappropriate joke on Friday, December 9, 2016, that which cannot be printed here. Anyone else fighting ALS and stage 4 pancreatic cancer would have gone quietly into the night, but Connors was stark naked drinking Veuve in a house full of friends and family as Al Green played from the speakers. The way he died is just like he lived: he wrote his own rules, he fought authority and he paved his own way. And if you said he couldn’t do it, he would make sure he could. Most people thought he was crazy for swimming in the ocean in January; for being a skinny Irish Golden Gloves boxer from Quincy, Massachusetts; for dressing up as a priest and then proceeding to get into a fight at a Jewish deli. Many gawked at his start of a career on Wall Street without a financial background – but instead with an intelligent, impish smile, love for the spoken word, irreverent sense of humor, and stunning blue eyes that could make anyone fall in love with him. As much as people knew hanging out with him would end in a night in jail or a killer screwdriver hangover, he was the type of man that people would drive 16 hours at the drop of a dime to come see. He lived 1000 years in the 67 calendar years we had with him because he attacked life; he grabbed it by the lapels, kissed it, and swung it back onto the dance floor. At the age of 26 he planned to circumnavigate the world – instead, he ended up spending 40 hours on a life raft off the coast of Panama. In 1974, he founded the Quincy Rugby Club. In his thirties, he sustained a knife wound after saving a woman from being mugged in New York City. He didn’t slow down: at age 64, he climbed to the base camp of Mount Everest. Throughout his life, he was an accomplished hunter and birth control device tester (with some failures, notably Caitlin Connors, 33; Chris Connors, 11; and Liam Connors, 8). He was a rare combination of someone who had a love of life and a firm understanding of what was important – the simplicity of living a life with those you love. Although he threw some of the most memorable parties during the greater half of a century, he would trade it all for a night in front of the fire with his family in Maine. His acute awareness of the importance of a life lived with the ones you love over any material possession was only handicapped by his territorial attachment to the remote control of his Sonos music. Chris enjoyed cross dressing, a well-made fire, and mashed potatoes with lots of butter. His regrets were few, but include eating a rotisserie hot dog from an unmemorable convenience store in the summer of 1986. Of all the people he touched, both willing and unwilling, his most proud achievement in life was marrying his wife Emily Ayer Connors who supported him in all his glory during his heyday, and lovingly supported him physically during their last days together. Absolut vodka and Simply Orange companies are devastated by the loss of Connors. A “Celebration of Life” will be held during Happy Hour (4 p.m.) at York Harbor Inn on Monday, December 19.
Amen Chris. Amen.
Alternative Path
Here is another opinion by another person. He has a similar point of view as mine, and I present it here for you, the reader, to enjoy.
Kim du ToitAdvice, Business, Guy Stuff, Men & Women
I have often ruminated that young men need to evaluate their career choices very carefully before picking the one they think will work best for them.
Increasingly, it’s become apparent that going to college is not a worthwhile option for them — unless they want to be hounded, harassed and vilified just for the “crime” of being a man, that is. (10,000 instances of false accusations, man-hating professors and the courses they teach have been omitted on grounds of brevity.)
Now, we’ve seen in other spheres what men do when they feel that the game rules are loaded against them, or that participation leads not only to inevitable failure, but even to a compromised future. The dating game is one such activity, where men have either deliberately turned the rules of the game against women and used them to their own benefit — or have simply eschewed all participation in the face of assured failure (going their own way — MGTOW) and simply created a parallel life outside the game.
I’m suggesting an alternative to the career game.
Don’t go to college, at least until the rotten system has collapsed under the weight of its own prejudice and misogyny misandry,
and been replaced with a better deal. Ignore the vested interests of
people and institutions who preach the lie that you can only be
successful with a college degree.
If you’re super-smart and driven like Michael Dell or Bill Gates, of course, you don’t need to be told this. But only a very few men, in any activity, are in that rare 0.00001% of super-achievers.
But for the vast remainder, there is an option: work in industries where the vast majority of women can’t or won’t participate. I’m talking about the heavy, dirty and sometimes thankless jobs (Mike Rowe-type Dirty Jobs) which not only don’t require a college degree, but where a college degree might even be a hindrance and not a qualifier.
Just last week I came across a guy who was an oil field worker. He’d fled from Venezuela right after that thug Hugo Chávez came to power, and in the eighteen years since had worked his way up the ladder, in oilfields all over the world. Now, at age 45, he’d finally reached the point where he didn’t have to work the oil rigs, just visit them and see how things were going. Along the way he’d acquired a wife, two preteen kids, and a $750k house in Plano where I picked him up to take him to the airport. He’d completely lost his Hispanic accent (when he left Venezuela he couldn’t speak a word of English) and was also fluent in Arabic and (ahem) German. When I asked him if he had a university degree he just laughed and said, “What for?”
What for, indeed.
Here’s the point. I know it’s going to be difficult for Millennials and their successors to handle this, but working dirty jobs is hard. It requires dedication, stubbornness and of course a willingness to get one’s hands dirty, and sadly, because of the education industry’s indoctrination of kids, this choice is often dismissed or demeaned.
It shouldn’t be. If you weigh the eventual benefits of dirty work — where, by the way, your exposure to militant feminism is going to be minimal to nonexistent — against a useless degree coupled with crippling debt, this should not be a difficult decision.
Is this risky? Not as much as you’d think. Just the other day, our local community college broke ground on a campus which apparently is going to be dedicated almost exclusively to the “hard” careers — automotive service and repair, construction, welding, plumbing, electrical work, manufacturing and so on — but I’m not going to suggest you look to such an institution for your education / training; what’s important is simply to realize that for such an event to have taken place, there must be a crippling shortage of young men willing to get into those fields, and this is the Establishment’s attempt to address it. (It’s complete bollocks, of course — you’d do better by getting an apprenticeship at a real place of work.)
So, in the paraphrased words of Ayn Rand, go “Galt” and make your own way in the world. You may not succeed, of course, but remember that failure is equally (or, in these times, more) likely with a freshly-printed college diploma clutched in your hand.
Become a watchmaker, if you’re mechanically inclined. Work in construction, if you’re strong in body. Get an apprenticeship in a trade, preferably an ugly, dirty and tough one where just by virtue of being a man you face no competition from women. I guarantee you, there’s a tough job out there for any man if he’s prepared to go for it. And if your first one (or several) choices don’t work out, find another one that does.
Let women take over non-jobs like human resources, clerical jobs at the DMV, cubicle management, bank tellers or benefits administration at Global MegaCorp Inc., and laugh as the life force is drained from them.
Here’s the challenge: be a man.
Not today’s version of “male” figures who argue over craft beers and fashion accessories. I’m talking about real men, who do things for themselves, push aside barriers with confidence and, eventually, end up with women (like my friend Raul, above) who appreciate them for their qualities and for the security and families they can provide.
When I asked Raul if his wife worked, he looked at me in puzzlement and said, “What for?”
If this guy taught a class, he’d create a generation of achievers. He would never do such a thing, of course, although he would (and does) train other men to succeed as he has.
Now get out there and make something of your life that does not include words like “curriculum”, “term paper” and “Diversity Studies”. You’ll be a world better for it.
Posts Regarding Life and Contentment
Here are some other similar posts on this venue. If you enjoyed this post, you might like these posts as well. These posts tend to discuss growing up in America. Often, I like to compare my life in America with the society within communist China. As there are some really stark differences between the two.
More Posts about Life
I have broken apart some other posts. They can best be classified about ones actions as they contribute to happiness and life. They are a little different, in subtle ways.
Stories that Inspired Me
Here are reprints in full text of stories that inspired me, but that are nearly impossible to find in China. I place them here as sort of a personal library that I can use for inspiration. The reader is welcome to come and enjoy a read or two as well.
OOPARTS
Here are some OOPARTS explained through my eyes while I was associated within MAJestic. In all cases the discussions are based on what I was exposed to. Most of which is considered to be fringe and “tin hat” stuff. Whatever. Enjoy.
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