This book is for anyone looking for a job especially in the United States. I created other job books like one for the world, for creative people, for different professions, etc.
The 123 volumes are as follows:
Volume 1. What Do I Want to do With my Life?
Volume 2. Career Ideas Guide
Volume 3. Psychology-Aptitude-Career Test Guide
Volume 4. Job-Business Advice Guide 1
Volume 5. Job-Business Advice Guide 2
Volume 6. Job-Business Advice Guide 3
Volume 7. Job-Business Advice Guide 4
Volume 8. Job-Business Advice Guide 5
Volume 9. Job-Business Advice Guide 6
Volume 10. Job-Business Advice Guide 7
Volume 11. A Job Website Guide from dmoz-odp.org/Business/Employment
Volume 12. A Career Website Guide from feedspot
Volume 13. Career Change Job Guide
Volume 14. Job Website Guide from the Dead Website sc.edu/career/Webresources/webresources.html
Volume 15. The Spirit of the Work World
Volume 16. Fun and Success at Work
Volume 17. Job Search Guide 1
Volume 18. Job Search Guide 2
Volume 19. Job Search Guide 3
Volume 20. Job Search Website Guide
Volume 21. The Job Application
Volume 22. Resume and Cover Letter Guide
Volume 23. A Resume Website Guide
Volume 24. Job Interview and Job Offer Guide
Volume 25. Job Networking Guide
Volume 26. An Alumni Job Search Guide
Volume 27. Find People who Can Hire You
Volume 28. A Social Media Branding Guide
Volume 29. Social Media Job-Business Guide
Volume 29. Volunteer with Animals Guide
Volume 30. A linkedin.com and twitter.com Job Guide
Volume 31. General Social Media Guide
Volume 32. Professional Career Counselor/ Employment Service Guide
Volume 33. Parttime-Temporary-Moonlighting Job Guide
Volume 34. A Freelance-Remote Job Guide
Volume 35. A Remote Job Guide
Volume 36. An Internship Guide
Volume 37. A World Internship Guide
Volume 38. World’s Biggest Volunteer Guide
Volume 40. Show Them You’re a Class Act
Volume 41. Work Issues 1
Volume 42. Work Issues 2
Volume 43. Work Issues 3
Volume 44. Hiring, Firing, Downsizing Guide
Volume 45. Workplace Logistics
Volume 46. Occupational Safety-Health, Worker Compensation, Substance Abuse Guide
Volume 47. Renting and Moving to Another Place
Volume 48. Employment Law and Employment Issues that Could End up Legal Matters
Volume 49. White Collar Crime: Investments and Workplace Crime
Volume 50. Job Search Scam Guide
Volume 51. careeronestop 1, The United States Federal Government’s Big Job Website: Very Good but Convoluted
Volume 52. careeronestop 2, The United States Federal Government’s Big Job Website: Very Good but Convoluted
Volume 53. Other U.S. Government Job Information
Volume 54. United States Job Guide
Volume 55. United States Job Website Guide 1
Volume 56. United States Job Website Guide 2
Volume 57. United States Job Website Guide 3
Volume 58. United States Job Website Guide 4
Volume 59. United States Job Website Guide 5
Volume 60. United States Job Website Guide 6
Volume 61. A Job and Social Support Website Guide by U.S. State at careeronestop.org/ExOffender/Toolkit/find-state-resources.aspx
Volume 62. U.S. Immigrant Job Websites
Volume 63. A Job Event-Conference/ Career Fair Guide
Volume 64. U.S. Regional and City Job Websites
Volume 65. U.S. Big City Job Website Guide from career.opcd.wfu.edu/location-specific-resources
Volume 66. A List of Local Professional/ Trade Associations by City from jobstars.com/local-professional-associations-organizations
Volume 67. A U.S. Local Job Guide
Volume 68. U.S. State Job Guide
Volume 69. U.S. Job Website Guide by State and Big City
Volume 70. Education and Job Websites by U.S. State
Volume 71. Job Websites by State from dmoz-odp.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Business_and_Economy/Employment
Volume 72. U.S. Job Website Guide by State from careeronestop.org
Volume 73. U.S. Job Website Guide by State from servicelocator.org/StateWebDirectory.asp
Volume 74. U.S. Job and Health Website Guide by State from triagecancer.org/resources/stateresources
Volume 75. United States Recruiter Guide by State
Volume 76. Employment Agencies/ Staffing-Recruiting Firms by U.S. City at jobstars.com/local-employment-agencies
Volume 77. A Staffing Service Website Guide at dmoz-odp.org/Business/Employment/Recruitment_and_Staffing/Staffing_Services
Volume 78. United States Chamber of Commerce Guide
Volume 79. United States Newspaper Website Guide by State
Volume 80. New York City and State Guide for Tourists, Locals and Job-Seekers
Volume 81. Hawaii Job, Business, Education and Life Guide
Volume 82. Nevada and Las Vegas Guide with Jobs and Practical Info
Volume 83. A California Guide for Tourists, Locals and Job-Seekers
Volume 84. Florida Job and Life Guide for the Sunshine State
Volume 85. Texas Job and Life Guide; Resources for the Lone Star State
Volume 86. DC-Maryland Job and Life Guide for the DMV Beltway
Volume 87. A Massachusetts (Boston) Job, Business, Education and Life Guide
Volume 88. A Company-Corporation Guide
Volume 89. Investigating Companies and People
Volume 90. A Company-Corporation List Guide
Volume 91. Lists of Companies by Big U.S. City and Industry at jobstars.com/local-employers and jobstars.com/industry-employers
Volume 92. Company Website Guide 1
Volume 93. Company Website Guide 2
Volume 94. Company Website Guide 3
Volume 95. Company Website Guide 3
Volume 96. Company Website Guide 4
Volume 97. A List of about 7000+ Company Websites Worldwide, Mostly United States
Volume 98. A Company and Company Website Guide, mostly from NASDAQ
Volume 99. nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/screener Gives Company Names on that Page or Download the Spreadsheet
Volume 100. Some Company Websites by Field from an Old Version of the nasdaq Website
Volume 101. A Forbes Company List Guide
Volume 102. A Manufacturing Company Guide
Volume 103. A Computer/ Tech Company Guide
Volume 104. An Energy Company Guide
Volume 105. A U.S. Company Website Guide by State
Volume 106. A U.S. Business-Company Website Guide by Region and State at dmoz-odp.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Business_and_Economy
Volume 107. Lists of 100 Companies in Every U.S. State at zippia.com, Near the Bottom of the Page, Click a State
Volume 108. Lists of 100 Companies by Field from zippia.com/company
Volume 109. Local Business Website Guide
Volume 110. A List of Companies and their Fields at inc.com/inc5000, no Websites
Volume 111. World Company Guide 1
Volume 112. World Company Guide 2
Volume 113. A World Company Website Guide 1
Volume 114. A World Company Website Guide 2
Volume 115. Canada Company Guide 1
Volume 116. Canada Company Guide 2
Volume 117. Canada Company Job Websites by Field 1
Volume 118. Canada Company Job Websites by Field 2
Volume 119. United Kingdom Company Guide 1
Volume 120. United Kingdom Company Guide 2
Volume 121. United Kingdom Company Guide 3
Volume 122. European Company Guide
Volume 123. An Asia Company Guide
It’s about:
discovering your true nature, figuring out how to make money from doing something you like
picking a field and researching it
getting educated and licensed
the job-search process; resumes, cover letters, portfolios and interviews
the online job search
a social media business/ branding guide
backdoor ways to a job like internship, volunteering, part-time work
how to keep a job
job issues at work
a U.S. job search
recruiters, headhunters, career counselors
job websites for cities and states
company websites worldwide
In an ideal world, you decide what you want to do in a leisurely way as you grow up watching the world, discovering what you’re good at and like to do then after grade school, you go to a trade/ career school or college, get trained and educated and after that, a job is waiting for you.
This is the artistic view, the traditional Montessori approach, let the kid develop naturally but in the real world, you can’t just be an artist and do what you want.
You have to be useful to other people in a practical way.
Cuteness and the fun musings of school don’t cut it like all that history, archeology, literature kind of crap that has no relevance in the real world of function.
When I was a kid in the 1960s, I remember some of my father’s friends with unskilled jobs earning enough money to support a family.
In the 1980s, I paid my way through college with part-time jobs; tuition, books, rent, gas, recreational substances and I had fun too. Life was good.
What happened?
There are not enough jobs for all the people who want to work. As time goes on, this will get worse because of automation which includes robotics and artificial intelligence.
Overpopulation is supposedly the biggest problem within the human race. There are finite resources. I don’t understand why they keep letting immigrants in to compete for jobs with the people already here.
Woody Guthrie and Jacque Fresco of the Venus Project, in the 1930s and 40s, both thought the country was wealthy based on magazines, radio, movies, news reels, etc. but when they went traveling around, they saw poverty everywhere.
My point is don’t believe anything on TV or in the media. They’re selling a fake glossed-up world.
Take care of yourself. Do research to find the best fields and the best places to work then do it.
This book is about the process of exploring career options, finding a job then keeping it.
It’s a blueprint job-hunting book for anyone anywhere. I talk about the job-search process, where to look for a job, resumes, interviews, social media, linkedin, etc.
I created other books with job websites for specific places like the United States, Canada, Europe, UK and the world and specific categories of people like minorities, college grads, seniors, etc.
There is a hidden rate of unemployment that is not reported by government and mainstream media. The Government Dept of Labor reports the number and percentage of people getting unemployment checks from them.
They don’t report the many unemployed and homeless people not getting government unemployment checks. If they did, the people would realize our countries are nowhere near as prosperous as they look on paper or on TV.
Go on youtube and watch Gary Null’s movie Poverty Inc. to start to see that you’re being lied to all the time about how prosperous our societies supposedly are.
Go on youtube, type in los angeles homeless or any city homeless to see that the Unirted States is not as prosperous as it looks on TV.
Free trade allowed a lot of jobs in prosperous Western countries to be outsourced to foreign countries for a lot cheaper. This includes factory jobs, customer service and anything that can be done on a computer.
Banks don’t need tellers much anymore.
Walmart has no-cashier cash registers.
Driverless vehicles will replace bus drivers, taxi, limousine, subway, train operators, etc.
Air flight is almost automated. They can send drones anywhere and land safely.
Businesses shrink in unexpected ways like amazon and online sales is killing retail stores.
Jacques Fresco of thevenusproject saw all this 50 years ago or so but he’s mistaken when he thinks that the powers-that-be will give all the unemployed people enough money to live fun, free, creative lives. It won’t happen.
The few people at the top will get richer while the masses get poorer. They want people to die off anyway. Overpopulation is in the UN’s Agenda 21.
Take care of yourself because no one else will.
Government jobs seem safe but many are meaningless make-work programs that destroy the souls of people who work them but then again many people don’t have strong souls. They’re happy doing anything that earns money. If you want a safe, secure, boring job, shoot for a government job at any level; federal, state/ provincial, county and municipal.
You have to be intelligent and inspired enough to earn a living one way or another.
You have to get an education but I say forget about all that soft Social Science stuff in college.
Get a real practical skill that is needed like electricity, welding, plumbing, medical, engineering, etc.
Some skills are saturated like journalism, computer science, law, etc.
The hidden job market rules. People get jobs by having friends and acquaintances who know what’s going on then tell them when there’s an opening somewhere.
I know the solution to create a prosperous economy anywhere. It’s to manufacture most of the goods we use and grow most of the foods we eat in the home country wherever it is plus the government has to create its own money not borrow it from banks who create it out of nothing thus eliminating income tax.
The government or the fatcats are not going to help you. They want you to suck everything out of you they can for their own greed and power.
This book covers thing like:
the new ways to present yourself as with linkedin
exactly where to find jobs
find the places in your field as easily as your local phonebook then target them
how to stay grounded in reality where nothing changes much in the hiring process
the boss wants to see you face-to-face to get a feel for who you are so you need a certain sociable, positive exterior to get any job anywhere
Bosses want people who show up. You have to give off that kind of serious, I-want-a- job vibe, not a casual, I’m-looking-for-fun vibe.
Some people don’t want fulltime jobs.
Some bosses want to check someone out before they give them a fulltime job.
Some people want to work at a flex-option job like telecommuting (working at home through a computer), working part-time, sharing a fulltime job, working weekends or nightshifts, doing temporary work through temp agencies, doing contract piece-work, being in business for one’s self, doing jobs or gigs for clients, selling stuff online or in real life (cosmetics, sex toys and lingerie still sell locally) or maybe being an artist or some kind of specialized craftsperson.
Another gig is substitute teaching or being a visiting nurse.
Before you decide to get into any trade or profession, my advice is to do at least the most basic employment projection research for that field simply because you don't know all the variables that affect the future viability of a profession.
Nobody knew that computer technology cuts out the need for accountants and architects in half. How about lawyers? Nowadays we have do-it-yourself forms and paralegals doing the job for most basic law issues at less than half the cost of a lawyer not to mention there is a glut of lawyers on the market.
How about real estate agents? Are they scrambling because people are selling their own houses because of the internet?
When are people gonna get tired of psychobabble and stop getting psychotherapy because they know it's doo-doo although I doubt this will happen because medical insurance now covers mental health even though a lot of people are starting to see it's a big fake industry?
Technology will almost eliminate some professions.
A lot of software and video games are made in India and Eastern Europe on contract for American companies. Even though a piece of software is supposedly created by an American company, it was really made in Hungary.
Why should they pay you $25 an hour when they can pay a Hungarian guy $5 an hour.
Several government agencies compile statistics then analyze them to help them make educated guesses about which occupations will be hot in the future and which will fade away or die out.
You can use knowledge to help you pick a career that has a good chance of being around for awhile.
Nowadays you have to brand yourself online or fix up your online presence to present a professional serious image because a lot of employers check potential employees out online.
You could use social media to find a job.
Most companies now want e-resumes only.
The two hard and fast old school rules are that:
you have to pound the pavement, find employers in your local area and don’t just send emails. Actually go there and ask for a job, a job application, to speak to the boss, etc.
It’s always hard times everywhere for many professions and unskilled workers but at the same time, it’s like Charles Dickens said in the first sentence of A Tales of Two Cities, these are the best of times and the worst of times.
If you’re motivated, upbeat, confident, believe you have worthy skills and are relentless in your pursuit of a job in your field or any unskilled job, you’ll find one because the unwritten rule of the work world is that every boss is always looking for a new good worker. If you show up everyday knocking on doors looking for work, you’ll get a job. You might not get one if you send out resumes and application forms on the internet and wait. People like people who show up, ask to meet the boss then ask face-to-face if there are any jobs. They might be caught off guard but they’ll remember you when an opening comes up.
There are at least 30 or more career aptitude tests out there, some for free and some charging $50 or more claiming to be able to give you a good feel for what your career aptitude is. I don’t go for tests much because you are already what you are in your soul. Tests might measure what you’re good at but not what you like to do naturally. That’s why I’m telling you not to let yourself get brainwashed into a career when they give you an aptitude test somewhere like at a government career center or in the military. Stick to your guns as to what you want to do.
The biggest thing in life for most people aside from personal relationships and health is to earn a living. This comes down to several things:
1.) Education, skill
2.) Your ability to know where to look for the jobs
3.) Your ability to be nice around people
4.) Your ability to show up everyday
5.) Your ability to do what you’re told
6.) The brownnose factor, how to play job politics
7.) Your motivation and desperation for work
At the library, related books are at:
jobs, #331
college, career education, #378
looking for a job, job prep, #650.10-14 or HF5382-HF5384
business books, #650-659
money, #332
companies, #338
Go to bls.gov for lots of free career descriptions.
Try publications.usa.gov for free practical knowledge.
These are what I consider to be the best job websites out there:
quintcareers.com
job-hunt.org
transitionsabroad.com, world jobs
khake.com
monster.com, lists jobs, no links to niche job boards or professional/ trade organizations.
indeed.com
careerbuilder.com
employmentspot.com
It was the best of times
It was the worst of times
It was the age of wisdom
It was the age of foolishness
It was the epoch of belief
It was the epoch of incredulity
It was the season of light
It was the season of darkness
It was the spring of hope
It was the winter of despair
We had everything before us
We had nothing before us
We were all going direct to Heaven
We were all going direct the other way.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs
In the end, what is life but a journey of an individual soul. You need money and a job but if you ain’t happy, so what.
An excerpt is from a speech frequently called "The Man in the Arena," given by President Theodore Roosevelt in Paris in 1910, a year after he left office.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds ould have done them better.. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory or defeat."
Another great one is the poem If:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good nor talk too wise;
If you can dream and not make your dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build them up with worn out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss,
And lose and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they're gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: HOLD ON.
If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute,
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And which is more, you will be a Man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling
VOLUME 1. WHAT DO I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE?
Chapter 1. Your Life is Your True Nature or Soul
All This Career Soul-Searching is Bullshit for Most People Because They’re Mundane by Nature
Discover yourself then figure out a way to earn money from that.
The big question is do you really care what you do as long as the money is good.
When I was in Grade nine, hangin’ out with my friends at the school yard at night drinking cheap wine, smoking cigarettes and dope, I started to realize that not one of them was like me. I’m the only guy as far as I knew who took a bus down to the shopping center to buy a set of weights because I wanted to lift weights.
I’m the only kid as far as I knew who wanted to do a long bike ride so one Sunday afternoon, I started driving around the Bedford Highway and I did the 35-mile loop then I kept doing it.
If you’re naturally inspired, you feel it, you know it.
I stopped socializing years ago because I realized straight-on, everyone is a bullshitter. Everybody says how great and adventurous they are but the vast majority of people are mundane wimps who want to work any job to make money so they can go home to get high and eat junk food in comfort. That’s it.
A job is no big deal. I picked teaching when I was young but it was bullshit. I didn’t believe what I was teaching (psychology) and I had to stick with the curriculum anyway. It was boring to me.
All jobs are boring to me which is why I created my own.
Most people don’t give a crap what they do as long as they make decent money so don’t take this career choice thing too hard.
Life goes on and on. If you’re true to yourself, you will eventually gravitate to your true self.
Do what you feel is natural.
Suppose you were free day-after-day.
After a month of watching late-night TV, getting high then sleeping all day, would you eventually start getting up to do something because you want to feel some kind of self-respect or just feel good?
When you feel that, that’s your natural purpose.
Don’t listen to tests, your father or the guidance counselor, listen to what you feel away from the brainwash of the world.
I wanted to work out, get high then do some creative stuff to occupy my mind. I didn’t want to work at a gym or be a phys ed. teacher so I started writing books to pay for my free time to do the stuff I liked to do. It’s no big deal because I’m resting at night anyway. TV is nothing to me. I can’t stand watching most fiction so I spend my time exercising my mind.
For you as the lost soul I presume you are, the only thing I can say is what do you gravitate to if you have a block of free time like a month. After getting high and sleeping in for a week, then what? Is there something you want to get out of bed to do?
If there isn’t, you’re a typical mundane person. Get any job. It won’t matter. Go for the money.
If something really interests you enough to get out of bed for, look for a way to make money in that field.
The Real World for Young People
At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are
and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
Rumi
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
Ralph Ellison
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin
No matter how idealistic, beautiful, cool or cute your life is right now living in your parents’ home, going to that phony liberal fantasyland called school, watching those fantasyland shows on TV, playing those fantasy video games and doing all that frivolous stuff with intimate strangers and fake friends online, it’s just you as a loner soul in life.
You probably were not born with a silver spoon in your mouth like the royal families of the world so your life will soon be the constant matter of earning enough money to pay for a roof over your head, utility bills, foods, clothes, entertainment, transportation and any superficial things you might want beyond that like junk food, recreational drugs, booze, porn, fashion, video games, an ATV, a boat, make-up, etc.
The bottom line in the capitalist matrix is to earn enough money to at least survive but hopefully thrive and make all the money you want to live out your greatest fantasies, hopes and dreams, look good and get all the love and sex you want on the side.
All young people in our Western capitalist matrix have been brainwashed to be successful according to monetary standards not the real standards of your soul.
My version of success is to do pretty-well exactly what I want all the time. I have a small house and own my free time. I can’t buy a yacht and do all the cocaine I might want but every single day, I do exactly what I want. Nobody tells me what to do.
The capitalist version of success is to:
make money
be a fashionable dandy/ bigshot in your local area or even on TV in the gossip news, get caught up in owning big cars, big houses, big boats, etc.
achieve status in the community
be respected by peers in whatever field you choose.
Youth is generally refered to as the ages between eighteen to 24. Young adult is 24 to 35.
This is what I think is important for young people or anybody at any age for that matter:
enlightenment, discovering your true nature
getting a trade, profession or college education
knowing how to look for a good job
starting a business if you want
learning about money
the search for love and a mate
sex, as distinct from love, the natural urge, I cover this mostly in other books
fun, entertainment, mundane hedonism like traveling around
Young people have the same issues and problems older people have but they’re more passionate and intense for a number of reasons like:
insecurity
a need to prove one’s self
fear of life
massive indoctrination
naïve exuberance
The greatest shortcomings young people have are:
no experience in living on one’s own therefore no wisdom about the real world
sense of entitlement if you were brought up living a comfortable life, not in poverty
no scope on the routine misery, problems, poverty and homelessness rampant within the human race
extreme sense of self-centeredness
a naïve sense that the way life is presented in the media and in school is the way things are which is not true because everything is corrupt and evil under the façade of bland niceness and good intentions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Everybody thinks they’re good but we really tend more towards selfish to evil than goodness.
Many young people think that so-called celebrities are advanced people with superior intellect and creative talents not ordinary people manufactured to be stars in order to sell product.
I saw a sit-com with a sarcastic punk as the star working a minimum-wage job living in a big apartment with a huge loft, nice clothes, gadgets, etc. never seeming to worry about money at all.
The mass media creates an unrealistic picture of life to naïve young people who think that TV reality is roughly the same as real life which is much harder. You have to constantly pay bills otherwise you’ll be homeless or couch surfing somewhere as an unwelcome guest.
No matter how good your “bros” or BFFs are, everybody wears out their welcome after about three days.
People need their own privacy to poop n peace, masturbate, be a slob, etc.
You are who you are regardless of your gadgets, apps or social media.
You are a pure essence alone living in your own head but the world has brainwashed most young people into thinking it’s cool to be plugged in, to always be going on fb, twitter and instagram reading and posting meaningless garbage that adds nothing to the quality of a great life.
You want to be the person you dream of in your fantasies.
You want love and intimacy, a deep connection with a kindred spirit soulmate equal.
In order to become the person you want to be, you need constant action to create yourself day after day which I won’t discuss here much because I talked about it in the book A Free Spirit’s Search for Enlightenment.
To live a full life, you have to know your identity/ true nature and release that natural energy inside of you everyday.
If you want real love, you don’t go looking for scraps of attention by posting frivolous junk online. You create yourself to be an independent, strong, noble person who loves life.
Only if you’re like that do you develop a way about yourself that attracts worthy people not needy, lonely people online looking for something to fill up their sense of emptiness.
Most young people brought up in modern Western societies suffer from extreme narcissism and a naïve, deluded sense of entitlement because they were brought up in a fantasy bubble thinking life is easy and fun.
Their parents paid for a nice life for them.
They watched all those Disney family movies on the Disney Networks and Nickelodeon TV where everybody has all the nice things they want and everything always ends well.
They see the fantasy cute life on TV every day where people are nice and friendly.
The teachers in school taught them a middle class, liberal view of life where everything is fun, cute and clean, people are nice, noble and middle-class sanitized.
The truth is that the human race is disgustingly evil clothed in a façade of charm.
Go back to the second story in the Bible. Cain kills his brother Abel because he’s jealous and wants his stuff.
Winston Churchll, the fat old mess of a man, really a pig, said one thing that made sense. Most people start off liberal but if they’re not conservative by the time they’re 50, they have led a stupid, sheltered life.
Most young people have a Pollyana view of life with a naïve sense of idealism that can only be cured by dealing with people in real life day after day for several years.
As a young man, I went into both the education and nonprofit sectors expecting the people were working there because they sincerely wanted to help people but I concluded that most are a bunch of selfish phonies just like in any other field, looking for an easy life away from the high-pressure of sales in a capitalist world.
They don’t teach you this anywhere. You learn it by watching how people operate. I saw the alcoholics, the overweight middle-aged managers hitting on the girls and the lazy CEOs earning six-figure incomes in a supposedly helping job who were in these fields because they’re easy jobs with no accountability unlike the business fields.
Young people like to think they’re exceptionally special. They think they’re original and have great ideas that the world is waiting for.
They think they will be great pioneers of change but they don’t realize that the leaders already in positions of power were young people once who had to bow down to their elders and work their asses off for many years in order to get to their positions and now that they’re there, they don’t want any shit from whipper-snapper young punks.
The unwritten rule in order to get ahead is to do what you’re told and shut up until you prove yourself enough for your bosses to give you greater responsibilities.
Many young people think college is the great land of opportunites.
You just have to get a degree or two then some good job is waiting for you with a good salary. The truth is that you create your own life through what you do. Hopefully you earn a living by doing what you like not what society says is cool and successful.
I wrote a book about college life and how useless most degrees are especially in those big fake mind control fields called the Social Sciences which is 100% bullshit because every human lives alone in their own heads.
Everything else about life is what other people created so it’s all bull next to your own unique feelings, drives and desires.
As far as love goes, that’s another delusion for many young people. By the time they’re eighteen, the average teenager has watched 10,000 love stories and movies on TV. Almost every show has at least one love subplot. It’s all about monogamous love but the truth is that all men are sexual dynamos by nature and would prefer to have a harem of women at their beckon call in an ideal world but they get brainwashed by the idea of love, fall for the hormonal passions then three months to a year later don’t understand why the love has faded.
It’s about hormones. Most of us are too stupid to feel our true selves purely so we go along with society’s indoctrinating ideas which includes love with marriage, kids and family when the truth is that the average guy wants to watch porn and shoot missiles off but you’re allowed to be a sucker. Most people are so you’re in good company with the other clones.
Society wants you to be a good working family man or woman constantly paying bills and taxes, buying stuff. Is that who you really are? Is that happiness?
Pop culture is a vast machine geared to tell young people what’s cool in order to control them and make money off them. It’s not cool. It’s just somebody else’s bullshit thrust on stupid naïve young people.
Fashion, video games and action movies are all silly nothingness next to a person’s own natural sense of lust, love and inspiration.
There’s music and fun.
The only time in life that people are really allowed to have fun and explore the world is when you’re young. If I, as an older man, want to go out and explore the world on my own now, people would think I’m a weirdo because old people don’t fit in anywhere like festivals, concerts, gyms, nightclubs, hostels, parties, backpacking around the world, playing on a sports team, etc.
Youth is the only time when society lets people party, go out and do things without frowning on them so I’m telling you to do things now before you get caught up in that rat-race, hamster wheel of a job, career, family, kids and bills because when you get there, you will see that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be contrary to all the bullshit you see everywhere about happy families.
Get real. You’ve been brainwashed since day one. Try to discover who you really are then have the guts to live by it but most people won’t because they’re too weak even though virtually all young people think they’re exceptionally cool and special. This is the folly of youth, the delusions of grandeur. It’s good to dream big but the hard part is the sweat equity day after day. Most people don’t have that kind of tenacity unless they love what they do.
Do whatever you want as long as you follow the laws and don’t hurt people, animals or the Earth.
The need to earn money to pay bills will grind you down until your spirit is almost gone, replaced by a steady routine mundane job.
You will take on an addiction to feel good in order to replace the natural joy of life which is to do what you feel in your soul. The most common addiction is food followed by silly TV shows. This is your destiny. Most people are not strong enough to follow what they feel.
What’s Real in Life?
This chapter is not specifically about looking for a job or a career but the existential problem of human existence is to find inner meaning or purpose which is why I felt that if this book is to be the best job book ever, I must get past all the official bull about tests, aptitudes, counselors, career profile articles, etc. and simply tell you to take a look at my life.
I was a 30 year old yuppie with a good teaching job, some status, a mortgage on a house, a house full of furniture and a wardrobe of clothes and it was like so what. This is what I was brainwashed to buy into as the standard path to success but it meant nothing to me.
Then I went through my bohemian phase and I realized that it's not much fun being a starving artist either if you're always worrying about being homeless.
My final conclusion for most people though not me because I'm a desperado extremist by nature is even if you're not greatly in love with a certain occupation, get a practical skill that's always in demand that's not that hard to train for like one of the allied health professions then do that while you explore your life trying to discover who you really are and what you really want to do.
I went straight from yuppie to hippie. I was naïve. I thought it would be easy to earn a living through my own creative efforts but the world is tough in every field including the fine arts. It's full of ass lickin' bull just like in any field.
It's not like everybody's working together as though in a musical in trying to create a great work of art. It's more like everybody has got their own creative ideas. Only the few people at the top get to be creative and everybody else does what they're told.
If you want to bring your own creative ideas to light as in making music, cartoons, movies, writing books, painting pictures, being an actor, etc., there are a lot of other creatively inspired people out there who have the same dream as you and are competing with you. You might need to attract an investor. Even if you do, you still have to compete in the marketplace to sell your product and the marketplace for artsy products is way overflooded.
If you have a creative idea for a business, you're still stuck with all the tedious parts of running a business.
Most people don't want to live in the ghetto with a bunch of desperados worrying about when you'll be on the street or when you'll get robbed because of the area you live in. It's not as romantic as the movies make it seem. Be real. Live in the real world.
Keep one foot on the ground and one in the clouds. Follow your heart halfway and follow your head halfway. If you follow your heart only, there's a good chance you'll be a starving artist. If you follow your head, you'll have a secure job but you won't be happy.
Except for the very few flukes who get what they want, life must be a compromise. It's better to be 50% happy than to tend to one extreme and be miserable. Life is not as clean as it appears on TV with everybody having clearcut roles.
There are lots of moonlighters, part-timers and people with portfolio careers around. They have a safe, steady day job to pay the bills then afterwards they pursue their real passions as a secondary job, hoping that they can succeed enough such that the secondary becomes the primary job. That's as good as it gets.
Don't listen to all the hype about going for your dreams. Most people's dreams are some image they got from pop culture entertainment like being a pop star or a professional athlete. Chances are it ain't gonna happen. Live in the real world.
Everybody likes to think they're free and enlightened but everybody has been brainwashed just like I was until I was about 30. The best I can do to help you find yourself is to tell you to read my book A Free Spirit's Search For Enlightenment.
The bottom line is that you have to know who you are in your true nature then release that inspired energy everyday in a way that earns you your living. That's all you have to do, align your true nature with the means to earn a living.
It's kinda like this is what I really, really love to do. How do I earn a living from it?
A Free Spirit’s Search for Enlightenment Leads to the Only Thing that Really Matters
We are spirits in human bodies. We will live on after our bodies die in a spirit world of love where we are our true natures but in this world we’re assaulted by the need to survive, earn a living and be around other people, often taking on their thoughts and ideas as our own even though they’re not. This causes inner disharmony and turns most of us into mean, selfish to evil, ugly, competitive people out for ourselves while pretending to be nice and good.
A person of integrity who lives by their true nature tries to do what’s right and good from what they feel within themselves both for their own benefit and to help the world.
Most people are indoctrinated and so afraid of life that they take on the artificial values of the world, often without realizing they’re brainwashed and not following who they really are by nature. This causes self-betrayal and inner disharmony day by day, if you don’t release this natural inspired energy within yourself but rather either release artificial energy by following the values of the world or do not do much of anything but absorb pop culture entertainment and material goods which a lot of people do.
Whatever you were naturally drawn to and doing at five years old is probably who you really are but then you got brainwashed by the world.
Enlightenment is to firstly discover your true nature, this natural intuitive standard within yourself of who you were born to be.
Honor it day by day by releasing all the natural energy within yourself in these areas without breaking any laws or doing anything evil:
inspired
sexual
loving
hedonistic
practical
Do something from within your store of inspired energy for your own good and for the good of the human race.
The world is so brutal and competitive that it brainwashes just about everyone to seek success in it. Myself personally, I choose to live like a pauper for at least a year as a young man so I could have the free time to do what I wanted with what I had as a poor man. Over time, I gravitated to the few things I want to do naturally anyway. That’s my nature, what naturally inspires me. I don’t really care about much except for being who I was born to be by nature.
What are you naturally curious about?
Discover what you love to do. Figure out what the world needs that you can do that uses up your natural abilities to earn a living.
Don’t listen too much to all the talking and noise out there. Follow the natural bliss and flow with yourself.
Be who you naturally are one day at a time.
You are really your essence. Release that natural energy everyday.
Get some goals and work on them day by day.
Chances are that you can’t do it alone. You have to go out into the world and meet likeminded people so you can help each other get what you want out of life.
Many people can’t succeed on their own. It’s much easier to watch TV and eat junk food. You have to discover your true nature then decide that you were born to release that energy everyday and that’s it. That’s what you do because I earns you self-respect and well-being.
If you feel weak, join a motivational group through meetup.com.
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Why I'm Free and Enlightened
How can I get beyond common, average indoctrinated values?
The path to the greatest life possible is to release the natural energy you feel within yourself when you wake up every morning to meet an inherent standard of who you feel you were born to be.
This is your true nature away from everything you've ever been indoctrinated by but a lot of people don't feel it or know it because they've been massively brainwashed by the society they live in.
The only two rules of life are:
1.) You have to earn a living to cover the basic practical needs of life unless you're in jail, supported by someone or financially secure.
2.) You can't interfere with other people's lives or otherwise break rules that will get you thrown into either jail or the nuthouse.
Beyond these rules, most people want to get love and give love which is all fine and good but everybody lives alone in their head most of the time so you must find happiness within yourself otherwise all the love in the world directed at you won't help you much.
The only people who go through life feeling happy and strong virtually all the time are the ones who know that all they are and all they own is the pure free spirit within themselves.
They must honor it everyday by releasing the natural energy in their free spirits. If any person does not release this natural energy, over time, they will lose a hold of whatever power, youthful spark and inspiration they may have started out with. They will start to feel mundane then degenerate into an average flatline life where they will be ruled by society's institutions and the mass media.
You can't lose your free spirit. This purity that is you is always there inside of you. It's your inherent archetype but if you don't exercise it and allow yourself to get indoctrinated by artificial values not natural to you, your free spirit gets covered over by all this stuff and gets weak, flabby, mundane, tired and depressed.
I started out like any well-intentioned kid in grade school. I wanted to succeed within the system so I went to college and became a teacher whereupon I tried to live a yuppie lifestyle which is all about working a so-called professional job, buying material things I didn't need in order to match some illusion of a cool, successful lifestyle I got from the mass media and pop culture entertainment.
My life became a routine, working everyday, trying to move up the career ladder, making money so I could buy more material things I didn't need and upgrade my house and car every few years.
After about a decade of this, I was about as empty as I had ever been in my life. I knew I couldn't go on doing this because it would mean a spiritual death and a wasted life for me. At the time, I didn't really understand what was happening to me, I just knew I was dying inside.
I quit my job, went out into the world seeking enlightenment, excitement, adventure and fun. I did the proverbial Hero's Journey that Joseph Campbell talked about in his writings about the myths of the world. Myths in general are allegories about people leaving their homes to seek fame, fortune and adventure.
They fight dragons and otherwise get cut to pieces by the evil and adversity out in the world then like the phoenix rising from the ashes, they slowly get back up and regenerate, a little wiser, more cynical, bruised and stronger than before.
The thing is that all throughout these myths of humanity, it's not really about the adventures and stories about the hero in the outside world.
That's just the setting or the stage through which an individual discovers the true meaning of life which is to discover their true identity, who they really are, then live by it.
That's what life comes down to. Who were you born to be by nature? Who are you in the midst of all the archetypes and possibilities out in the world?
The individual must see enough evil to know the world is nowhere near the naïve, idealistic, rosy visions he was brought up to believe in. The Hero's Journey is not about going to college or being an exchange student sheltered on a college campus anywhere. You have to go out and see how people really live including the poor, the exploited, the desperate, the crazy, the wealthy, the elitists, the arrogant, the powerful and the criminal element.
Once you know the world is more Machiavallean than Pollyanna and you know that every organization, institution and human being has the potential for evil often in the name of good, you don't have any utopian vision left anymore so you're free to pursue the only thing you know for sure in this life which is the purity you feel within yourself.
If you want to be an enlightened free spirit, you must not have allegiance to anything other than the spirit you feel with yourself. If there's a God, this is what He gave you. All institutions, organizations, religions, psychobabble and New Age ideas were created by man therefore they're fallible and cannot reach any higher in understanding the human condition than any individual can on his own.
I traveled and met a lot of people until I realized that planet Earth is the same everywhere geographically meaning that the sky is blue, the sun rises everyday, trees are green and the earth is brown so traveling lost its luster for me then I realized that people are the same everywhere. Most are a gray mixture of good and bad, they want to be happy and most have been brainwashed by capitalism.
Human nature is fundamentally self-centered. If we were really as good as we like to think we are, we would share what we have and all the world's domestic problems would be solved but instead we live in a cutthroat world where people rob, plunder, exploit, kill each other for a few dollars then try to build big houses with lots of security so they can hoard their wealth in peace. That's what's going on out into the world that no classroom can teach you.
I didn't live like monks and New Age cults do in some communal-type setting but I did live alone with no job to answer to and enough money such that I didn't have to work for several years as long as I was frugal about it.
It was then that I made my big discovery about the human condition. All my life I had been massively brainwashed to try to achieve success in the capitalist world so I could make lots of money and some people within my community would recognize me as a very important person, a VIP with some status.
I was born with a certain pure essence as an individual that had been covered over by the ideals of capitalism, religion and patriotism since I started watching TV and going to church at three years old. It came out partially in some of the interests of my youth but I didn't realize what my true nature was until I was totally free to do anything I wanted to do.
Day after day I found myself doing the same few things over and over again. These are what I call my inspired pursuits. They're mostly physical activities and creative-intellectual pursuits. After this, I have some sensual-hedonistic desires like any normal person and I like to give love and get some back.
Intuitively I felt that this is what I was born to do. It gives me power, strength, inspiration, a sense of youthful spark and a feeling of pleasure, happiness and euphoria to do exactly what I want with me life freely. It's the fountain of youth, the key to longevity. I can't think of anything else that I'd rather do than blow off that load of natural energy everyday in its three facets; inspired, sensual-hedonistic and loving.
I kept haphazardly doing what I wanted to do until one afternoon I was running around a park, I looked over and saw all the traffic on the street then wondered why are they all there and I'm the only one here running around on a nice day. It seems like the most natural thing to do when the weather is good, go outdoors and enjoy it.
Many people feel neurotic when they're not answering to a job or school. I feel that they're all chasing illusions of a fantasy life in the future that they think they're working for but all we have is right now. The past doesn't matter. You shouldn't mull on it especially if it's negative so that shoots the so-called pseudo-science of psychotherapy down. The future doesn't matter because you can only live it when you get there.
I create my life as I live it. I have very few material needs. I earn money through my creative pursuits. That's enough for me to live freely all the time, answering to no one but myself.
You either enjoy your life as you live it or you lose because by signing up for any paper chase or rat race, by the time you're ready to enjoy the money you've made, you will have destroyed your body and soul in the process.
That day in the park, I finally figured it out. I have my own natural, intuitive standard of how I should live and who I should be.
Society had totally fooled me into playing its game until I was about 30 or so when I realized that I had been sold a bill of goods and indoctrinated to live a certain lifestyle and think a certain way but somewhere deep down I had a whole other pure, natural lifestyle inside of me that I was born with.
This is huge. Most people, when they think they're being free, are still following society's formula.
Chapter 2. Where Do I Fit In the World 1?
Manly P Hall - 'The Secret Teachings of All Ages'
I listened to this teaching on youtube. Just type it in on youtube.com:
Manly P Hall - 'The Secret Teachings of All Ages'
It was very simple.
Everybody confronts themselves at some point in time in the privacy of their minds away from all that stuff we call the world, the human race or society.
Good people see that they are a good person.
Bad people see that they are evil scumbags even though they pretend they aren’t out in the world.
Many people lose their natural sense of who they are because of the artificial values of the world which are money, fame, power, status, etc.
There is only one answer to constantly feeling good about yourself.
That is that the world is constantly in need. There is always a need of something good to be done everywhere.
Simply do the good that needs to be done wherever you are.
That’s the entire lesson.
Somewhere inside of you there is some semblance of a good person even if you’re a fat, selfish lazy pig right now who wants to watch hockey games and eat chips. Be that person.
Don’t be idle, sitting around doing nothing useful like watching TV, drinking booze, eating at restaurants.
Get to work doing something useful.
The need is everywhere. There are people and animals suffering everywhere right now.
Jeff Berwick or Dollar Vigilante Youtube Channels, The Guy is Honestly Exploring his Feelings about Life
He’s a middle-aged guy who realized he was depressed, living in the capitalist matrix now he’s trying to be healthy but he goes overboard in some ways.
For instance, coffee enemas are not natural. You don’t need to stick something up your butt.
He hires some phony health expert over skype and shares the video.
There’s nothing new under the sun. She’s spewing off generic crap out of any health book at #611-613 at the library but Jeff is a gem because he’s being honest to a certain point but all men lie because we have to hide the incredible sex drives we were born with.
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Success Psychobabble
Focus on who you are and what you naturally like to do that can earn money.
Forget about being scared. Do what you were naturally born to do with passion and intensity. Keep going no matter what.
Enjoy what you do. People will respond to your joy for your work.
Do what makes you feel fulfilled.
Don't be a crybaby. Nobody wants to hear you snivelling.
Develop a positive state of mind where you feel like a winner because you're doing the best thing you possibly can, following your true nature.
All you have to do is find a good job, a product to sell or a service to offer that makes use of your true nature.
Creativity is easy. Listen to your inner voice.
Learn about marketing and selling from my business book and books at #658 at the library.
There should be no procrastination. You live to express what's in your true nature.
Don't spend all your money. Save and invest.
Are you willing to work hard at what you love to do to get the money you want?
Here's how people get rich:
Self-owned business
Business MBA type
Doctors, lawyers and other professionals
Sales
Buy cheap products in Asia, sell them worldwide
Stock market
Real Estate
Invention
Entertainment
Writing a book
To become wealthy, acquire money then use it to make more money.
Find a need and fill it.
Offer specialized knowledge.
Offer an almost unique skill or be the best at your skill.
Strive to exceed the expectations of your customers or your boss.
Live debt-free.
You have to network and develop contacts. Expand your contacts by getting involved in community service organizations.
Be a good worker. Show up on time. Do the job well quickly.
Be able to express yourself clearly.
Love the work you do so you're energetic about it.
Find a near-unique product or service. Start off with an accepted product then find a way to improve it in some way.
Your True Nature Info
Discover who you were born to be in your true nature then figure out a way to earn a living from it.
Where do you feel powerful?
I feel powerful when I swim but I can't earn a living from it.
I feel good when I'm in the process of creating this book. I can earn a living from that because I am doing something useful in a practical, down-to-Earth way.
I'm down on all the brainwash on TV with all them pop idol type talent shows putting ideas into people's heads about doing something frivolous to earn a living. Every pop star is a fluke who got lucky to some extent because there are loads of people who can sing pretty good and sashe around acting like arrogant stars but only a few luck out and actually make a lot of money from it.
If you're working a job you don't like now, you'll never be happy until you do something closer to your true nature.
What truly interests you other than sex and drugs and rock 'n roll.
Find a blog or two where someone is blogging about the job or business you're interested in.
I'm a bohemian-hippie. That's why I always knew I could never work for someone else so because I'm a creative intellectual anyway, I figure I'd create the best practical information books ever. Same thing for you. Do what you feel is right. Screw the nay sayers. Everybody hates anybody trying to bust out of the rat race. I know because I was crucified for being an aimless hippie while I was working my ass off on these books. Don't listen to anyone. Nobody understands you but you.
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