Now I have never really had a job with any real benefits, but that’s because I never cared about benefits, since I knew it was a temporary job and it wasn’t going to be something that I wanted to do for a long time. I also did not care about benefits as I did about salary or hourly pay. I am 22 years old and am a healthy 22 year old boy, and felt that I don’t need benefits, just money. I needed money like everyone else to pay bills that I had, which was not much, but also keep some for myself to have if I ever needed it, and buy something nice like a new care which I did not to long ago. But if I was going to keep something long term, then yes, I need benefits.
I am currently unemployed as I write this book and have no intention of getting a job at the moment. I always wanted to create something like a book, show or film. My dream job or career, of course would be an actor and writer and maybe eventually director. I have experience working on projects in the filming industry with just about every job, except hair and make-up. I have been an actor, writer, director, producer, editor, choreographer and trainer. I have also worked in the sound department as well as lighting department, I just tried to see what I love in the movie business, and it turned out acting and writing. That is my dream job. Mainly to pretend to be every kind of job, legal or illegal, and jobs that are impossible to be, like a superhero or even god. And the writer has complete creative control of the content and can basically write about whatever he wants, only if gets bought.
Going back to dreams, everyone should at least try to follow their dreams and do something they love or at least try it, who knows, you might not like it. That’s why I want to try and follow my dreams and you should too. It will be a journey, but the journey will make you appreciate the destination more, when you achieve it.
I have experience working several jobs such as management, sales, retail, accounting and reception. My favorite job was actually working in a movie theater, even though that was my only minimum wage job, it was the best since it relates most to my skill. I loved the people and location, but I left that job my sophomore year of college, which I also started that year too, and the year I changed from medical to film. You have to try different things before you choose the path you want to take.
The way I got the job as an accountant, is that I lied on my resume and in the interview because I was desperate for a job. If you really want a specific job and have no official experience, then lie, no one will find out and anyways they will train you. Just think, who would they take if they had 2 choices: the person with some to many years of experience with that type of job, or a newly graduated student who majored in that subject? Most likely the experienced one, you won’t have to train that person as much. You can lie, no one will really check.
Something I really did not like was customer service jobs. You need it to communicate with people that don’t work the same job as you, people you don’t know, and sometimes don’t want to know. I hated the saying that the customer is always right, I would say that many customers are full of shit and don’t deserve shit if they act like shit. Though you have to treat them with the most respect if you want to keep your job, like me, I did diss some customers because I got sick and tired of them and the job. Always remember to respect the work place, it may be temporary and you might find something better eventually, if you want to.
You need patience when you find work to stay for a while. To find something you love can take a while but you most likely will find it as long as you don’t give up and stay at a miserable job until you get old and retire. You should not finish school and find a job you hate and stay for most of your life wishing something better but not doing anything about it, and then retire and die, not having lived a life that you wanted.
Money
The object that leads to greed and selfishness, yet we all need it to live our lives. Money does make us greedy when we have lots of it or little of it, we try to save it for something important.
People close to you can be hypocritical for money, as when you’re young, they tell you not to spend your money and to save it for something big. Of course they want to protect you from making a huge financial mistake. They’re many scams out their that take your money for nothing and it hurts yourself, and you wish for all of the scams to parish and seize to exist. That can’t happen unless humans became extinct or if money was no longer our currency. I have been scammed before and lost money, but we all lose and gain money in our life, it’s just how it is.
I do not really like money because of its constant desire to have it, and when you have a lot, it’s not enough, and you want more. I would actually like to live for one day from thousands of years ago, where there was no money, there was trade. Like if you wanted to buy meat, you would trade chickens for the meat, or something like that. Of course, time has changed from then and we have currency that helps us.
There are countries with people that have no money because of where they live, mainly the African continent. We see it all the time on television asking for donations. I remember people telling me that there are kids in Africa that are starving when I don’t finish my food, and the smart ass that I am would usually tell them to pack up my food and send it Africa. Of course, by the time they pack it and ship it, it will spoil.
I usually don’t donate because you never really know for sure if it’s going to the place you’re believing it will, or as advertised. Even in temple, you still don’t know exactly what the money will be used for. Of course the thought of helping people is nice and noble, but sometimes you could be feeding people things that they shouldn’t take, like drugs or alcohol. Which brings me to the homeless, you never really understand why they’re homeless in the first place, maybe they got kicked out for not paying bills, they did something illegal, etc. you can give them money but again you don’t know their intentions, Sometimes you do. I live in Colorado and I noticed many homeless downtown having signs that say “need money for weed” which is funny but stupid, get a job and buy as much weed as you want, it’s legal in that state and many other states.
Some people may think that healthcare and schools should be free, but that would mean for everyones taxes to be raised high, which is not very democratic. Socialist and communist countries have that, but that means pay is low and the government takes most of your money.
People also try and find jobs that pay high so that they could make a decent living. Which if you have experience of that type of job, can make you a high income. Even though that takes time, if you are in your youth, you don’t really need to make lots of money, it will come, possibly. Educated people also believe that they should be making good money, but without experience is not so likely. I understand since I was like this, you just graduated college and you don’t want to work jobs that make minimum wage, which you should not have to, unless you have never had a job. Though you can’t expect to be making lots of money fresh out of college, it takes time.
Investments are a great way to make money, but could be a gamble. Whatever you’re investing in can fluctuate and you need patience and hope that one day it will go really high, which it could. Whether it’s real estate, stock, Bitcoin, etc. you could gain but lose as well.
People should also tip when giving gratuities, when you eat at a restaurant, get a drink at the bar, take a ride service from an app, etc. they are working too and don’t have a big salary, but primarily make tips. The fact that people don’t tip is disgraceful and somewhat offensive. Now I understand if the performance or service was bad, I would advise to tip low and maybe complain. Though when you tip them low and you know they don’t deserve it that low is a dickhead move. You have to think if you were in their shoes doing that job, some have and some will. The ones who tip low are either cheap or assholes, unless if the total was low. Now I don’t really tip fast food since they usually don’t serve you and I believe that’s ok, but you can if you want too. Just give it if you like it.
I love when people ask if there is any jobs that has “easy money” now there are but most are illegal. Selling drugs is the biggest one, it seems easy but is very risky and could put you in jail for a long time. Scamming could as well, but you have to be crafty and smart to fool gullible people, and they are everywhere, but you can still go to jail if caught. Being in the mafia is also very dangerous and could get you killed but technically makes easy money, the