[MD] Ham & swiss cheese

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

>From: Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] Ham & swiss cheese
>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:45:22 -0800 (PST)
>
>Dan,
>
>      Dan said:  "You can have that now, if you want
>it. You have to want it though. If you do not have
>quality time with your family, etc., it is on account
>of your own actions, my friend. No one elses. No
>excuses allowed."
>
>      Yeah, maybe your right.  At this moment in my
>life, my job does not allow for the quality time to
>have with my wife.  I work a lot of nights, tonight is
>an exception more than the rule.  I could get another
>job after being in school to get this one, which I
>went back to school after having schooling to be a
>Massage Therapist for 5 years.  I've worked in many
>areas in this culture.  In a movie theater, grocery
>store, fast food restaurant, specialty food store,
>plant nursery, restaurant, catering facility, spa,
>chiropractic office,  telemarketer, volunteer as a
>park ranger for 6 months, had some poems published,
>and now in a troubled youth residential community.  I
>really don't mind the job I have now, except for the
>hours.  My wife works during the day, I at night
>mostly.  She has weekends off, I rarely do (twice in
>six months).  She is a substitute teacher, and if she
>gets a permanent teaching job, well, IF, then
>economically we would be more comfortable.  Maybe I
>should go back to school, find another job, or just
>face it.

Hi SA

It's just a suggestion but maybe you should look at developing multiple 
streams of income instead of relying on one job. There are so many ways to 
make money these days. Try and read every book about building wealth that 
you can lay hands on and put the ideas you find therein to work for you.

>This culture doesn't have many options for
>intellectually motivated person who thinks about where
>he works and wants to use his mind more freely and not
>get trapped in so much habitual work, which this job
>now relys on ones' own wits and spontaneity in dealing
>with social and intellectual jams.  It's just the
>hours that's all.

Here are some options I've discovered along the way: I am a real estate 
broker. I am a paid consultant at a carpet cleaning corporation. I am a 
published author. I own a janitorial service business that I hire a manager 
to run for me. I am the beneficiary of a trust that owns several rental 
properties that not only provide a positive cash flow each month and 
appreciate in value each year but also allow me to write off depreciation on 
my taxes. I am currently involved in creating a mail order business with 
several partners. We're selling dietary products: little patches you stick 
on your skin and they keep you from getting hungry. Have you been to Walmart 
lately? Lots of fat people out there...

It's pretty simple really. Decide what you want and take action to get 
there. Nobody's going to do it for you.

>No excuses, just a need for more
>quality time with the more valuable part of my life,
>which is not the work to buy aspect of my life.  The
>time I do spend with my wife and outside of work has
>high quality, just overall not enough of it exists,
>but maybe all this time I've been having a hard time
>finding what fits me in this culture is my discontent
>with this culture.  Is it me or the culture?

Headcheese. The culture isn't going to change. Change is up to us.

>Well, I am very content in the woods, with my family, with
>friends, even at work with other people, I do not
>anger, stay calm, feel peace and contentment for the
>most part, all except those hours.  Well, everything
>can't go your way, but I could desire more control
>with something that seems to take up much of my life -
>those hours and choices as to what I could do to buy
>things since the population is so high and I can't
>have the quality time to cultivate an option of living
>more self-sufficiently in how I seem to find my
>comfort and contentment, but I guess I should just
>suck it up and just live with what I have in this
>culture and not try to do what seems to come more
>natural for me.

It appears you want to make more money in less time. There are very specific 
ways to acheive that goal. Complaining about it isn't one of them though.

>I should let other people have more
>of a say in my life, maybe, or maybe I should take
>responsibility for who I am and that is SA.

Subject and object thinking says that other people expect us to behave in a 
certain manner. The MOQ would seem to say that there are no others. Social 
patterns of value hold us in place. We're suspended in culture. But social 
patterns of value aren't groups of people. We are slaves to an image, the 
image we have of our self. So. If you're not going to take responsibility 
for yourself, who will?

>Should SA
>change for others or Should SA be SA as long as SA
>just wants what is more valuable to exist in SA's life
>more often than what seems to be a system of problems,
>where problems exist, as evident with the girls caught
>in a system that deems them deviant to society and
>angry possibly the future criminals of this society
>due to their collective rage and unintelligible
>actions?  How many other unintelligible actions exist
>in this society in which we are dragged into in order
>to provide the clarity that is becoming dim?  How many
>people just blindly do and the rest are aware of the
>doing that needs stopped?

Focus on problems and that's what we'll see. Focus on crime and there will 
be criminals everywhere we look. Focus on doing what's best and we'll find 
Quality in thought and deed.

Thanks for writing,

Dan