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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
You're friend spent 3 years as temp labor at a factory. He could have spent those evenings like ambitious people with goals who fully intend to provide a good life for their family by learning to code, studying online etc etc. He could have done a million things to better his own situation. Just the exact same as every young parent has since the dawn of time. He chose not to. He coasted. He coasted in a job where the very point was that he was expendable. Then he got let go which not planning for in 3 years as a temp hire is beyond irresponsible.
At what point are people themselves responsible for their station in life? Kanye West is not a genius. He's just a dickhead that worked hard and devoted every waking moment to improving at skills. Skills he continued to build on as a job and then as a career. That can be said of anyone, ever thats worked for success.
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The sad thing is, most people aren't taught to think this way, and in fact are taught that jobs are the safe, sensible thing to get, to enable financial security. It's almost as much of a fuckup as religion is, this 'get a job, be safe' mindset that education/society at large promotes. Get taught that from the age of 6 when you get your first "so what job do you want when you grow up" question is asked, and it's a cycle of shit brainwashed into most people from a young age.
If there's any 'breaks', it's those lucky enough to have not had that indoctrinated into them, and those, to use my own experience, lucky enough to be so anti-authority from childhood that they say fuck the status quo I'll do it a different way thanks
I do think the web is opening up more than just the knowledge of academia in that awareness that jobs are just temporary, you *can* learn/do something you love and get paid for it, and so on is becoming more widespread. There's a hell of a lot of people out there who are imprisoned by mental fear thanks to what they've been led to believe - almost breaks my heart when I see close friends of mine truly sad in their 9 - 5 jobs but taking a leap is outside their comfort zone (mindset) thanks to their upbringing.
If I weren't such a lairy cunt who hates being told what to do by anyone I even slightly perceive as having authority, I'd be stuck in that shit too. Rambling as usual on here, but meh, people are people's worst enemy sometimes.