'Volks',
This is something that has been a long time coming and has run as a corollary to my other post, 'FOR THE RECORD-the DREAM' (lnk.ms/RbVGc). It's been economically and politically true for me for 39 years. Considering my obsession and fascination, numerologically, with the number '9', the 39 years, 2 months, and 13 days since I left the womb of the 'belly of the Beast of Yale', and 36 years, 3 weeks, and 4 days since I left the service of the U-nwilling S-erving the A-rrogant R-uling the M-any for Y-ou (US ARMY, for you slower ones!!),the significance of the combinations of the numbers '9' and '4' have retained their numerological significance with me.
A major obsessive imperative and goal was having the flexible freedom to do what was passionate and viscerally imporatnt to me. I've always been, temperamentally, an ascetic, spartan by nature. I don't really NEED much though I appreciate and explore the intriguing nature of A LOT of people and things. The WEALTH pitches that come with MLM and REAL ESTATE programs were not the hook that this fish was seeking to bite, though I'd nibble to get a taste of what de-fuck they were talking about. I was about service (number '6', on the numerological charts for my name, also!). Those who knew me as the maniac-human-tragedy and co-hosts of the 'Space Houses' at Yale know that it was always about sharing and doing service for the GOOD causes of the group. When the DRAFT had me by the short-hairs after graduation I went in as an ENLISTED, rather than succumb to the vanities of being an officer and executing the very mind-set I had cavalierly protested against in college!
After the Army and later the Air Force, my nomadic civilian vocational profile shows, at the least, no small devotion to any one employer, though there were a few I'd recommend in Syracuse, Dayton, Richmond VA, Pueblo, and EVEN in EMPLOYEE-EXPLOITATIVE Omaha! My first runs at self-employment were dilettante teases, with no broad coherent philosophy of meaning beyond the financial ends. My lack of a sustaining philosophy for those efforts came from the diversions of not having a coherent meaning of urgency for being in those roles. My failure was made easier by that lack of a coherent purpose. Though,I CAN say that, the freedom and flexibility I had, I did enjoy.
With the end of my military obligation for my retirement pension, AND my repulsion at the thought of sinking roots into Omaha which was for me the spiritual equivalent of an EPA SUPERFUND CLEAN-UP SITE,I resigned myself as a minimum to low-wage free-agent. In this status, I learned the disciplines of being ascetic enough so to preserve and better utilize my external resources, as well as to discipline myself on my internal resources, particularly the TIME I'd choose to participate or commit myself.
When it came time to move to Virginia (or Colorado), I was pretty-schooled in my disciplines to get the 'new nuclear family' to NPN VA. As 'Murphy's Laws of Fate' would have it (lnk.ms/SXQwb) I encountered the situation that brought me to these keystrokes. Though I found decent employment, the working conditions were strenuous enough to reveal a serious pulmonary-vascular condition to terminate it and send me back into the realm of the unemployed. Having to jump through the hoops of those who have the applicants by their 'short-hairs' and those potential employers treat the applicants with the knowledge of their whimsical powers they have in the process, started getting me pissed. After two turn-downs, which were pure whimsy, beyond any alienation to my resume, I was VERY pissed.
Fortunately, I had been simultaneously 'working' my avocational side and trolling in online rabbit holes, looking for the sublime or the intriguing. The real first came from a friending on the URL shortening status pages of MySpace. A 'friender' turned me on to a site (https://app.sponsoredtweets.com/login) which she thought would take advantage of the way I give my 2-cent, turn-of-the-phrase quips to the Twitter posts that are part of my daily news feeds. I found a couple of sponsors whose products or services caught my favor and I produced advertising tweets for them. As I was finding the benefits of this, the signs for finding something beyond the employment whims and jump-hoops of 3rd parties was becoming more urgent. As serendipity would have it (lnk.ms/SY103) my search brought me to a business-networking site (Corkin.com) where I was going to place an ad for my '2-cent Movement' (lnk.ms/SC8gq), when I checked out an email sent to my inbox and the guy was promoting this site (http://allsolutionsnetwork.com/MH/MH16785/). After TAKING THE TIME to listen and read, I saw that this latter and the former ad-tweeting could be the key to my employment, financial, and cognitive focus issues.
Like I declared earlier, I have ASCETIC-MINIMALIST-to-SPARTAN tendencies. Material-$$-Wealth is NOT my ends. But having the freedom of options in the flexibility of my time does require some subsistence, sufficient income. That's ALL I'M LOOKING FOR, and I believe, for many of YOU, that's ALL that you are LOOKING FOR.
You don't have to participate in any of the sites I put up here. What's more important, for you who know that our present economic and political system fleeces the average worker while disenfranchising them from any fiduciary security, let alone tangible or intangible benefits, that these words will have you looking on my sites and others for those options of flexibility for your time and life.
Harpo
NPN, VA
Aug 2011
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