Why Do People Hate Their Jobs

Great Article by  James Altucher. Click Here
It's kind of a downer, but really true.

I limped out of the meeting and said, “excuse me”, and took the elevator down 67 stories, went to Grand Central, limped home, and never went back to work at that job. 

Every day I try to practice reversing that. I do that by listening to the body, the mind, being grateful, being around positive people, sleeping a lot, eating well. 

But having a job and being controlled by Masters ruins the practice.  

 Jobs are modern-day slavery. We are paid just enough to live and not more. You are punished if you ask for more.  

- We are often verbally abused on the job and we take it because we think it’s normal that people would yell at us. 

- The government gets up to 50% of your paycheck and then 10-20% of that goes to kill people on other parts of the planet, including our own children. 

- We are deluded into thinking our job-friends are our real-friends. With our job friends we talk about pens, genitals, and cubicles. We stop having real-friends. 

- There’s a glass ceiling. It doesn’t matter if you are a woman or minority or a white man. The glass ceiling is that you aren’t allowed to make more than your Master, even if he’s an idiot. 

- You realize that all the dollars you spent on degrees to get you a job that will make you happy were completely wasted. You were scammed but you can’t let the next generation know how stupid you were so now you become part of perpetuating the scam.  

- A trillion dollar marketing campaign forced you to buy a house you didn’t really want and now you will “lose a house” you never really owned if you don’t bow down to the Masters every day. The words “The American Dream” were coined by Fannie Mae in a marketing campaign 40 years ago to sell mortgages to slaves.  

- Your spouse is tired of hearing about your job after six months. And you couldn’t care less about hers. Ten years later you wake up next to a total stranger. 40 years later you die next to one  

- Your IRA was not intended to provide for your retirement. It was intended to take money from you every month so you remain chained to your cubicle. Inflation then takes 90% of your IRA.  

- Over time everyone is getting fired and being replaced by younger, cheaper, more temporary, more robotic, versions of you. You see this but are afraid to do anything about it. 

Cross posted here.

Three and a half years later

Wow! I am still retired.

Alex graduated from one of the best high schools in the country with every honor imaginable, including valedictorian. He completed enough high school hours to graduate twice! He is a National AP scholar. He has enough college credit to start as a Sophomore. He was admitted to the University of Chicago, but they give no merit money (and very little need money). A quarter of a million dollars for an undergraduate education just does not compute.

He will be going to St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. Great school, and they wanted him! They sent merit money. Yeah! It is a Christian based school, with an awesome music program and a great economics department. It is the right distance away. The students and faculty are real people. Great fit!

Alyssa did just as well in Middle School. She is clearly a (the) top student. She is continuing her dance. She is in the Senior performing company at her dance academy, and made the high school dance team, and the freshman show choir before she even graduated from middle school. She is "front row" in all of these. Wow! Good looking and Smart! She made a wise decision to not run cross-country, even tho she might have been their top runner. There are just not enough hours in the week.

All of this is expensive. Unless I win the lottery, I will run out of money in about two years.
We will see.