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What's your dream job? Describe it.
Posted on Mar 22nd, 2007
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Kundan
Kundan
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for March 22, 2007:
My dream job is to have no job - for my passive income to become more than my active or ordinary income.
This way, I have time to the things I really really want:
Write a lot of poems that inspire people and clarify people's perceptions.
Co-found alternative schools and colleges.
Create an intentional community that explores the relationship between the following two statements:
1. Everything is within us.
2. We use relationships to create and declare Who We Are.
Create a personal development company that helps people define themselves and discover the wisdom that lies within them and those around them.
Be a match-maker - bring interesting people together who don't know each other but if they did, they would be able to help each other greatly
Creat parties that are deeply spiritual and fun!
This way, I have time to the things I really really want:
Write a lot of poems that inspire people and clarify people's perceptions.
Co-found alternative schools and colleges.
Create an intentional community that explores the relationship between the following two statements:
1. Everything is within us.
2. We use relationships to create and declare Who We Are.
Create a personal development company that helps people define themselves and discover the wisdom that lies within them and those around them.
Be a match-maker - bring interesting people together who don't know each other but if they did, they would be able to help each other greatly
Creat parties that are deeply spiritual and fun!
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But if you could be paid to do all those things, you wouldn't need the passive income, hm? :)
Actually I don't need anything. Nor do I actually need to do all those things that I described - I could lie on the beach all day and still be happy - happiness or for that matter, any state of BEING is not something that is induced or forced upon us by external things. Everything I am being is because I choose to be. Thus I can be happy by simply choosing to be happy.
There is no way to happiness.
Happiness is the way.
I want to do all those things just because I want to - no reason, and no need for a reason.
I am not sure I want to be paid for all those things - I don't want the pressure of having to make a lot of money to interfere or conflict with the nobleness of these endeavors - I don't want any conflicts of interest.
But it sure would be nice to be paid for my poems - they deserve to be paid.
For me it's about simplicity. I live in Southern California, the most expensive place in the 48 states, perhaps excluding NYC. I drive an old, reliable economical car. I don't dine in fancy places where a dinner for 2 could easily be $150.00. I don't stress about what to wear and where to be seen. If memory serves me correctly, the US Government defines living in poverty for a family of 4 is an income of $34,000.00 or less. I can't remember the last time I earned $34,000.00. I guess that makes me poverty stricken. One thing I am very concerned about is my lack of medical insurance. That's the same worry for about 60% of all Americans anyway. It's a shame. I have not had a credit card for 27 years. If I can't pay cash for something, I don't buy it.
In spite of all that, I am a happy person. Life is good. Today I was doing some desktop publishing (a paid gig) and tomorrow, I'll get back to building a web site for another customer. I own a manufactured home. Some still call them “trailers”. When the mortgage is paid, I'll be living down the street from Disneyland in a 3 bedroom home for far less than a Studio Apartment would rent for. I once had a “real house” and a real mortgage and real worries when my high paying aerospace job ended and because my home ownership was fully dependant on my having a high monthly income, I lost it all when me and 30,000 other machinists in CA lost our jobs.
I work from a home office. If I'm tired, I'll take a nap. Try that working in a “real office”. No need to brown bag my lunch, the kitchen is not far away.
I agree that “happiness is the way”. I arrived a long time ago.
Namaste