So, this will be the first blog of 3 blogs I'm writing in the next 24 hours on various internet avenues. Congrats on starting here (if you start here). (EDIT: The other writings will be more personal on my other blogs, not on this one)
There's a lot of people without work. So many friggin' people. It's such a wide variety of people, it's insane. I've heard of so many random statistics on it. Apparently, there's all levels of college out of work, all the way up to people with a Masters Degree. I also recently heard that 50% of people between the ages of 18 to 34 are out of work. 40% of that group between the ages of 24 to 34 are also living back home with their parents or with some friends. My source for the information? My mother. What? Isn't Mom always right? Oh, I also heard that 50% of all statistics are made up.
Regardless of the stats, the truth is widely known, no work out there. Here's the thing about that. People, no matter how mentally healthy, and psychologically strong a person is, needs to have some kind of "validation" and I use the term loosely. There's unhealthy validation, being accepted by certain people, waiting and hoping for the compliments to build up your self-esteem, basically dependent validation. That's not healthy... I, um... heard that once.
Then there's, what I like to think, a healthy validation; having goals met, making achievements, or a societal validation. An example is getting a job, or having a job. Sure, having some time off, being able to do what you want whenever you want, is nice. Going on vacation is supposed to allow for a recharge of the personal batteries, but usually ends up exhausting you more. But always being able to come back to the job, well, that's a comfort that many people forget about and take advantage of. If there's one thing I know, and I know this ALL too well, I'm like the expert on it now, "you never know what you had until it's gone." I don't know the quote, and I don't feel like Google'in that Sh**. But I'm hopeful you understand my point.
Unfortunately, money makes the world go round. Unless you wanna be the guy in "Into the Wild" and go off the grid and live off the land, having money is required. It may not be the most important thing in the world, but it's definitely one of the most helpful things to have.
My personal opinion is this, Americans might be getting into a very big depression mood here once more and more of the unemployment runs out. Not having a job, that can break families, friendships, relationships, and a person as a whole. It takes a lot of strength to stay strong in the face of adversity and not crash.
That's just one of my thoughts for this week. Hopefully I write sooner next week.
There's a lot of people without work. So many friggin' people. It's such a wide variety of people, it's insane. I've heard of so many random statistics on it. Apparently, there's all levels of college out of work, all the way up to people with a Masters Degree. I also recently heard that 50% of people between the ages of 18 to 34 are out of work. 40% of that group between the ages of 24 to 34 are also living back home with their parents or with some friends. My source for the information? My mother. What? Isn't Mom always right? Oh, I also heard that 50% of all statistics are made up.
Regardless of the stats, the truth is widely known, no work out there. Here's the thing about that. People, no matter how mentally healthy, and psychologically strong a person is, needs to have some kind of "validation" and I use the term loosely. There's unhealthy validation, being accepted by certain people, waiting and hoping for the compliments to build up your self-esteem, basically dependent validation. That's not healthy... I, um... heard that once.
Then there's, what I like to think, a healthy validation; having goals met, making achievements, or a societal validation. An example is getting a job, or having a job. Sure, having some time off, being able to do what you want whenever you want, is nice. Going on vacation is supposed to allow for a recharge of the personal batteries, but usually ends up exhausting you more. But always being able to come back to the job, well, that's a comfort that many people forget about and take advantage of. If there's one thing I know, and I know this ALL too well, I'm like the expert on it now, "you never know what you had until it's gone." I don't know the quote, and I don't feel like Google'in that Sh**. But I'm hopeful you understand my point.
Unfortunately, money makes the world go round. Unless you wanna be the guy in "Into the Wild" and go off the grid and live off the land, having money is required. It may not be the most important thing in the world, but it's definitely one of the most helpful things to have.
My personal opinion is this, Americans might be getting into a very big depression mood here once more and more of the unemployment runs out. Not having a job, that can break families, friendships, relationships, and a person as a whole. It takes a lot of strength to stay strong in the face of adversity and not crash.
That's just one of my thoughts for this week. Hopefully I write sooner next week.
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