Breaking the Chains

Having a job stinks like a used up crack whore’s pussy at three in the morning. Come to think about it, most wage earners are like a cheap hooker, selling time and lives for a few bucks an hour. Let’s face it, our days are numbered, each of us only has a limited amount of time to spend alive on this earth, how we use that time is up to us. Do you really want to sell your life to some fat cat boss man, for $6.00 an hour, I don’t think so. Boss man go find yourself another chump, I am not playing the game anymore, you can take your so called job and shove it. Nobody with sense would ever want a job, and thank God we can do without one. Think about it, jobs – not work, but jobs are bad.

The first thing we need to do is downsize our life. The most important thing is to stay out of dept, no loans or payments for anything, as long as you owe someone else, you remain in the system and a slave to the lender. “Wage slave” isn’t just a clever metaphor. We really have sold ourselves to others for a few bucks an hour. Don’t play the game, you will never win, it is intended to be that way. The bankers, government, retailers, everyone but you, the average Joe, wage earner, will gain from your hard work and dept.

The last job I had was at a local hardware store, after working their for about seven months I was laid off, and have been receiving the weekly unemployment check from the state since. Now my claim is just about up and the check is fixing to stop. But I’m not worried in the least. I owe no one, everything I have is paid for and I am very frugal. I can make it just fine on $100 a week, and in most cases have a little left over to put aside in the rainy day fund. Most of the time I do odd jobs and work as a handyman, I also dig ginseng and goldenseal root, ( it grows out in the wild in my area), to sell to a guy that drops by the local sporting goods store once a week to pick up the died roots giving me a nice big check. Last fall the dried ginseng root sold for over $450 a pound, on a good week, I can find and dig over a pound of the stuff. It seem they love it in China. Just stay away from the pot growers fields, and everything works out just fine.

How did I manage to break free of dept and the need for a full time job? I downsized my plans and life. I don’t need a lot of crap to tie me down. I found my two acres of land out past the power lines in on the edge of a strip pit for $2,000 bucks, parked a 26 foot travel trailer on it, bought a small generator, three solar panels mounted on a movable frame (so I can keep the set up facing the sun), and two 40 gallon propane tanks, meet all my needs for power and cooking. I have no water on the property so I haul it from a friends house in five gallon cans 25 gallon each trip. I must pass by his house to get to my place anyway, so stopping by for water is no big deal. And yes I have an outhouse. I am currently working on building a septic system using two 55 gallon plastic drums, PVC pipe and a lot of digging. This whole set up cost me around eight grand.

And as a plus my old ball and chain left, it seems she likes to be seen and have shiny things, to impress her friends. Life is good.