RE: Thoughts of a "hopeless" independent.
Bro! I feel you!
Man, if you need money, a job is the easiest way to do that. Honestly, I'm lucky to have a job that I enjoy. But I've had plenty I didn't.
It's like you said:
shut up, buckle down, and keep pushing forward.
Not in a "quit bitching" way, but in a way of efficiency. To me, a job is a tool. Yeah, the dream is not to have a job and to produce value your own way, but sometimes we need a little something along the way. A boost I guess. An income stream is a badass thing if you go about it right. Think of it as time to network and get paid while planning.
Remember, Plan A. If you've got that plan, that goal, it's gonna be in your head. A menial job for a few bucks can be an incredible brooding chamber for progress. Around here, there's factory and warehouse jobs. Things you can easily do with headphones in. That'll help pass the time bigly. I'm listening to podcasts for six hours of my eight hour shift. Learning.
I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. It's perfect and good and a sign of a good fucking human, but even entrepreneurs take jobs when they're between projects and hurting for cash.
If you and your family need money, that's the easiest way to do it. And your family is the best goal you can have, even over world liberation.
Keep. Pushing. Forward.
Even if you're depressed and slow, one foot in front of the other. One step at a time. Progress is progress, even if it's slow as shit for a while. Even just thinking can be progress, you know this and you live it.
If it helps, think of the menial corporate job as a victory. You're extracting money from the system to fuel your projects. When it's time, your projects will propel you up and over that corporate subsidized system to help spread what you're doing. Using that system to spread agorism and liberty.
Remember, in an economic interaction (and all interaction is economic), each party thinks it is getting the better deal. They think the labor you pour into the system is more valuable than the money they reward you with, and you have to see the greater value of the resource they're providing you, because it can be used as a means to spread Liberty.
Never. Fucking. Stop.
Ah yeah man, I know. I’ve been around this spiral several times now already. Always pick up work where I have to. Becoming unfeasible though in light of real work I wanna do/am doing.
Factory work would be perfect if it were part time. Not sure what’s available in that regard around here. Teaching English is the most common thing. Got lots of connections, kids are great, but the energy drain is monumental.
That’s just it, though. Getting to the point where it is not a win/win transaction anymore. I got shit to do ;)
The part time factory thing is an idea, though.
Yep. Agree 100%