What is freedom really? Many search for freedom by gaining knowledge and skills they can add to their resume, however, they find themselves crippled by the debt that they had to acquire to fund those skills.
They then go into jobs that they hate but have to take because they need to make money. Only to come home to sedate with booze or copious amounts of television programming.
I get it because I was that dude. I paid a ton for college, but I can’t say that I’m in the same field I went to school for. Don’t get me wrong, I greatly value the experience, but at the end of the day, I know people that didn’t go to school and also had similarly valuable experiences AND didn’t have to start out their careers in serious debt.
I started off as a lower-middle-class kid aspiring to do something great. I had a dream of helping a lot of people but ended up living lower class for almost a decade, staying in basements, cars, and storage sheds. (Don’t tell my parents, they’d freak!) Just so I could achieve that dream.
Life is a lot different for me now of course, but I just can’t help, but sometimes think. Who or what am I missing?
You see Brosephine Baker, I can tell you from my experience that life is all about choices. You are not forced to do anything you don’t want to do on any given day. You are not FORCED to distance yourself from true fulfillment every day. It’s a choice.
Sure some may say that if you’re ignorant of anything else, then it’s not really a choice. But I would have you consider this…
We were all born with an imagination. We can all dream. It is a matter of you making the choice to take action on them or continue to do the same thing that you’ve always done.
Again, I get it, change is difficult. I just gave up something (boot camp training) that I love that I’ve been doing for 10 years. It was difficult but at the end of the day, I don’t want time to be the deciding factor on whether I should continue to do something or not.
When you think about it, all we are all looking for is the freedom of choice. We are all striving for it in our own way.
Whatever your way of striving for freedom is, I want you to tell me. Leave in the comment section below, or you can shoot an email directly to me here:Â Get In Touch
Jerry “multiple choice” Washington
P.S. I hate to sound like I’m poo pooing school and that it was the cause of my troubles. At the end of the day, those were choices too. I could have continued to stay with my degree and worked a corporate job that I hated. It wasn’t for me, but I’m not saying it shouldn’t be for you. Many people have graduated and gone on to live VERY comfortable lives. I guess I just chose to take the scenic route. What’s most important is that you define success for yourself and make decisions every day that will get you closer to that vision. Talk soon…
we stick it out with miserable circumstances sometimes because we need courage and imagination to explore avenues that merge our dreams and a profitable profession. I wish schools taught a little better that there is scope to be successful in lots of ways
I agree MOL! The problem is the incentive for schools to teach this. Unfortunate, but it is those like you who elect to craft their dream consistently rather than leave it behind, that give others hope. Keep up the good work over there and thanks for the comment!