How to make money...

a reply to: Quantum12

well I tend to think that as humans we have to work. Either you're:

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POOR: You don't have to punch a clock, but if you don't have assistance, then you have to really scrowng around to make ends meet. Like you're a bottom feeder. You might have to resort to dumpster diving, and other cheap and freebees out there to feed yourself.

MIDDLE CLASS: This is the biggest scam out there. But sort of a necessary evil I guess. It's the route we're all trained to try to aspired to from the schools we pay to get brainwashed at. But if all the stars align you can get a normal career and resign your life to being a slave for life. This is got to be the biggest scam ever. I can't believe people would actually sign up for this. Like you get two weeks a year off? Oh joy, just shoot me now, please do it!!! I'd way rather try live out in the woods off the land any day than sign up for this nightmare. But by working your azz off you just barely make ends meet. JOB = just over broke

RICH: You can strike out on your own. Try and start a business etc etc. But again, it's very competitive. And there's a million things you need to know, which you won't learn in business books. So essentially you're screwed. Because even if you get business going there's just far too many things you'll never know about that could so easily derail you. But if you're very lucky you work usually about part time hours and you might come out of it with an earily retirement.

SUPER RICH: about the same odds as winning the lotto. Chances are you're not gonna be the next face book.
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personally I think that the most freedom lies in being poor. Because less is more. Small is the new big. The less you have the less you have to worry about. You have freedom to roam and see the world. You'll get thrifty and you'll be able to make ends meet one way or another. I wouldn't asipre to this but I'm saying if you want freedom this is an easy and immediate route.

but ya money is a pain in the azz. But personally I don't believe in any law of attraction BS. I believe if you want it you go get it. Because we're a modern society so we exchange value between people. But if we were back in the stone age we'd have to plant seeds to grow crop. And we wouldn't sit around wishing the seeds would plant themselves. We'd go and do it, knowing that's how things grow. But now that we're living in a modern society we have lost touch with the idea that you have to work hard and hussel to get ahead. By doing that you're planting. But anyway I tend to think that I still feel at times like I'd like to just get lost deep the back woods and take my chances living off the land, sink or swim.

a reply to: lavatrance
I love all your magical points! Thank you kindly. Did you notice what you wrote is in italics? For a reason. Lov u bro!

a reply to: Quantum12

I agree with a lot that you said, but at the same time, Sales? A salesman is a middle man to profit on the weak minded gullible people. If I needed or wanted something, I don't need a salesman to tell me what I want in the information age. Just saying, I don't want to pay commision for buying what I would have bought because an idiot is present to sell me their pitch, thus I overpay for a product I would have bought anyways. That's just me. But if you were going to spend a couple grand on something like a refidgerator or any home appliance, wouldn't you consult reviews about that product before buying it? So why is there a salesman? Salesmen make money off of duping people out of their money for things they don't need or are even the wrong choice, as long as it makes them money on commission they will say whatever you want them to say...Erghh that's my rant on salesmen.

I have bought a few things in the past few years from department stores and I tell the salesmen to leave me alone, I will buy what I want and I know just as much about what I need as anyone else in the store. When I pay for it they ask for who helped me with the purchase, and I say me, do I recieve a discopunt for not needing help? Nope. So ya the rant continues.

originally posted by: lavatrance
a reply to: Quantum12

well I tend to think that as humans we have to work. Either you're:

==============================================================

POOR: You don't have to punch a clock, but if you don't have assistance, then you have to really scrowng around to make ends meet. Like you're a bottom feeder. You might have to resort to dumpster diving, and other cheap and freebees out there to feed yourself.

MIDDLE CLASS: This is the biggest scam out there. But sort of a necessary evil I guess. It's the route we're all trained to try to aspired to from the schools we pay to get brainwashed at. But if all the stars align you can get a normal career and resign your life to being a slave for life. This is got to be the biggest scam ever. I can't believe people would actually sign up for this. Like you get two weeks a year off? Oh joy, just shoot me now, please do it!!! I'd way rather try live out in the woods off the land any day than sign up for this nightmare. But by working your azz off you just barely make ends meet. JOB = just over broke

RICH: You can strike out on your own. Try and start a business etc etc. But again, it's very competitive. And there's a million things you need to know, which you won't learn in business books. So essentially you're screwed. Because even if you get business going there's just far too many things you'll never know about that could so easily derail you. But if you're very lucky you work usually about part time hours and you might come out of it with an earily retirement.

SUPER RICH: about the same odds as winning the lotto. Chances are you're not gonna be the next face book.
===================================================================

personally I think that the most freedom lies in being poor. Because less is more. Small is the new big. The less you have the less you have to worry about. You have freedom to roam and see the world. You'll get thrifty and you'll be able to make ends meet one way or another. I wouldn't asipre to this but I'm saying if you want freedom this is an easy and immediate route.

but ya money is a pain in the azz. But personally I don't believe in any law of attraction BS. I believe if you want it you go get it. Because we're a modern society so we exchange value between people. But if we were back in the stone age we'd have to plant seeds to grow crop. And we wouldn't sit around wishing the seeds would plant themselves. We'd go and do it, knowing that's how things grow. But now that we're living in a modern society we have lost touch with the idea that you have to work hard and hussel to get ahead. By doing that you're planting. But anyway I tend to think that I still feel at times like I'd like to just get lost deep the back woods and take my chances living off the land, sink or swim.

Awesome post

Good thread Quantum12, I enjoyed the Reading.

Not sure how to star or flag?, using my phone.

you are sounding a bit like my husband... and it is all true, what you have said. It is what we (my husband and I) are trying to do, make a living out of our passions. I believe we are facing a fast (too fast for me) transformation in that direction. I am terrified. I'm not used to putting myself "out there".

a reply to: DarkvsLight29

Thank you, did you all notice that most of your replies are in italic? The power.

a reply to: Quantum12

did you all notice that most of your replies are in italic?

Yeah, what's up with that Q?
Magic?
MInd control?
Tell your secret...

Just understand that you have the power to change your life in one day!

Perhaps.
Sometimes change takes years of careful planning. Yes, money would make changes happen more quickly but then the process would be denied. Sometimes things just have to run their course. I believe sometimes that's for the best.

a reply to: TNMockingbird

You know the secret Chirp, lol.

One needs to experience working at different jobs/careers before one can identify one's varying natural talents, which may be transferrable to other jobs. Also, starting hobbies or constructive sidelines (volunteering, choir, clubs...) after your day job, instead of computer gazing, can work wonders in adding to your talent pool.

If a dumpster diver or recycling guru (depends on your outlook) finds an plant vase that resembles an agora which cannot stand by itself, then learns how to macrame or teams up with a crafts person who can make a macrame hanger for the vase, then money can be made by learning how to solve a problem, however small. My sister and I did just that, she found a beautiful hand painted agora-type plant stand (free) and I macrame an elaborate red jute with beading hanger for it (jute cost me $6 and I already had beads, but it gave me back enjoyment at creating an art piece and that is priceless), which she sold for $25. All profits went to her, and the hanger was a gift to her from me.

Lower and middle class know how from nurtured talents and experience.

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I believe people can be good at certain things, but I think this idea that everyone can find something they love for work is full of bologna.

Work is hard no matter how you put it.

If it was fun and enjoyable, you wouldn't have to pay someone to do it.

Just having to be somewhere at a certain time, and having to be there for said number of hours is difficult.

a reply to: Quantum12

Guten Morgen- Thank You for the kind words.. I'd be remiss if'n I didn't add some Tao Te Ching as The Tao seems to nail it on many different issues, and $$$ and the pursuit of $$$ is un-healthy and an energy drain.


Heaven’s Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven’s Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People’s Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive... Tao Te Ching 77


The sage does not hoard. The more he does for others, the more he has. The more he thereby gives to others, the ever more he gets... Tao Te Ching 81.

It should also be noted that the "Service-to-Others" is the most righteous 'Service-to-Self'..

Why do the "Ultra Ri¢h" continue to seek even more $$$ ? Look at The Walton Cabal. How many are on the Most Wealthy List, yet continue to seek out even more $$$? Not only that but more than a couple even stoop to using U.S. taxpayer $$$ to accomplish this. (See: "Welfare Ranchers")

I'd opine that answer is the same as the 'why' behind a Bernie Madoff et al. GREED..

Thank You again for the positive jolt...

namaste

a reply to: InTheLight

I agree with you about trying and learning. I had many jobs in life. I found my life's work a few years ago. So we as humans do have to make a path in life to see the light on our forehead. Lol. Once we see the light we have the power to make things happen.

a reply to: nOraKat
My work is hard but I love working in film. Behind the scenes is my passion. Knowing that our team has made a production happen puts a smile on my face and a paycheck in my pocket.

I have had jobs I hated but I made a change.