I started writing this years ago, and it was sitting in my drafts folder.
I’m not sure if I posted what I wrote then, but I’ll repost it now, and redo the prompt today.
What job would you never take?
Another with the four-letter company where I worked. What a disaster.
Backstory this criminal recommended me following a contract changeover. I’d butted heads with him several times, trying to get him to provide some justification for whatever hairbrained drop-in solution the vendor who’d picked up his bar tab was hocking….
And, so I took the job. For 77% of what i’d been earning.
But the overall experience was bad. The shitty compensation only exacerbated things. Because I wasn’t in a sunny mood all the time, and continued to call people on their bullshit….. I’m going to stop there, because it’s not all that interesting. (And I had to just delete more snark about it….)
So, that’s an easy answer to that question.
I had a dream last night I was back in radio. Who the hell knows where that came from. I really am not in shape to be doing air work, would have trouble doing some of the techie work, and would never do sales….I don’t know.
Writing early in the morning today because I woke up way early. I’m still in pain. Pfft.
So, what to write about tomorrow? Hmmmm….
The Hall of Fame game got cancelled because the logo painted on the field made the surface too hard to play on. I’m looking forward to Hard Knocks. Have you ever been to see an NFL training camp? One of my three high schools was in Carlisle, PA, which is home to Dickinson College, where the Redskins trained for years.
After the tumult following Jack Kent Cooke’s death, The Dan saw that Norval moved camp back to Virginia, after a couple of years in Maryland (Frostburg?). Either Schottenheimer or Spurrier decided it needed to head back to Carlisle.
I had a Tuesday off, and decided to head up to see camp. Going to go through my old OD archive to see if I can find what I wrote then, and whatever else I can add.
Onto today….
What job would you never take?
We’re still in post-election reax mode, and that might be affecting my answer here.
Don’t ever settle for something that’s beneath your skills.
I really view what happened to me at the four-letter company is me giving 150% effort for 80% pay. Yes, I had an attitude problem. Yes, I was abusing myself with too much alcohol. Yes, my body was going absolutely nuts.
But I shouldn’t have ever done something in my career field for that little money.
I could have made similar money doing something unrelated, and not gotten the abuse I incurred.
But I did what I had to do to take care of my wife and myself.
I can still think. I can still type. I may not be able to see worth a damn, but there’s lots of stuff I could be doing for a similar pittance.
So. News.
I heard something on one of my many podcsts about these folks. (Apologies for audio coming out of link…..)
The pod I was consuming was talking about them being a cult, just like the People’s Temple in Guyana.
I wonder how you get taken away in those things.
You can leave.
Yep. Yes you can. If you really can’t, and this sounds like one of those rare situations, that’s where it’s legitimate for the state to get involved.
Those rights the government is supposed to not deprive, and defend, are life, liberty, and property.
Yes, the prohibition is on the state abridging those, but you can’t transfer the power to someone else to take them, either.
You can’t give someone authorization to kill you.
You can’t give someone the power to imprison you.
You can’t give someone the power to take all your shit.
Does that make me a minarchist? Perhaps.