The Working Class

Since I've been home, I've been thinking about what I can do regarding work. Basically, I don't really care as long as it pays. Or at least, I didn't. I discovered this is not the right mentality. And no, I don't mean concerning the employer, cause I couldn't give 2 shits about them, but concerning myself. When I get to the point that I'll do anything for money, I feel that I start losing morality and my values. After all, as long as you go down that path far enough, eventually you'll end up robbing and killing if it's profitable.

Also, given the fact that any work you do earns you money, money is actually not a relevant factor when it comes to choosing work. All that's relevant is what you do, and if you want to do that. So I decided from now on I'll give myself a clear idea what kind of work I will be looking for, and at the same time I'll be open to other possibilities. I think that's the best way to get what I wanted in the first place. Because basically I would just like to work temporary jobs, giving me different experiences.

However, getting work is not so easy! I thought the recession didn't really hit Holland, but I guess it did. At least, it did in the way of going to an employment agency to find work. Also, I realized that with my current papers, my education is basically useless. I might as well not have graduated, because best they can offer me is production work; packing things together. Great, more donkey work. Then again, almost everything is donkey work. Stuff that you go to university to for 3 years is also donkey work. As long as you have the intellectual capacity to understand what you do, everything else is just automated pilot. Ok then, smart donkey work.

I realized today that my chances of getting a job are very slim when I put all my faith in employment agencies. I'm gonna have to be creative and do something by myself, which is also more rewarding. So what will that be? First off, I should be looking for something I can start with directly. My long term occupations will be organizing workshops, making music, writing a book. At least that's what I can think of right now. But for now, I can look around to see where there's places I can offer myself as a host for events, or go into sales.

I could even make something myself, but I don't know what. Thing is that most jobs for my kind of people are offered in summer, but then I want to be in Croatia, so I need to have money before that. I'll have to see what comes on my path, but it's not gonna be easy to find work soon. And I really don't have a dime! It will be alright though. I can always just buy a one way ticket to Costa Rica and teach English classes there. Or go to Africa and build a school. Steven's Academy for Health and Happiness; Harvard eat your heart out!

Anyway, it's not easy being the working class here. You get to do stupid, insignificant jobs, for a lousy salary that you even have to pay taxes over. It's clear that this is not for me. It's not meant to be, I'm supposed to do something different. Using my creativity, I'll find a way to get by. When I went to the agency this morning this guy was trying to break my balls asking me what I was good at. I said everything, it's all just practice. Then he continued that for every job there's about 100 applications, so what makes me different from the others? I said my attitude.

In reality, there is no difference other than your attitude. Do they really think their jobs are so complicated? It's all donkey work. The only reason why I wouldn't be able to do a job is because I would get so bored of it. You don't need experience, you don't need education. You just need to do it, everything else will come by itself. My dad told me when he finished law school, the first thing they told him in the office was: Ok so now just forget everything you've learned.

I said it in one of my songs that education is a race about who repeats the fastest and that's exactly what it is. Yesterday there was this guy from Oxford University in this talk show who was talking about this rowing race against Cambridge. He said that all guys in the boat were really smart and can do something. Amongst them the founders of Facebook. Did they have to go to university to think of something like Facebook? No! And when the interviewer asked him "So what can you do?" he gave a typhical bullshit answer along the lines of "In 5 years I'll work somewhere abroad". The genius!

This society is sick, and it's gonna die. A cancer of civilization, it's disgusting. In a few years, I'll be somewhere else. In a place that I can truly call home. Where friendliness and compassion will be most important. This world is not for me; it's that simple. I'll not settle with any of it.