Some good and bad news regarding my financial situation. I won’t go into either tho…the point is that I’ve been thinking about money and its importance in my life. And its importance to other people’s lives.

For me, money is all well and good if you have enough to do what you want, when you want. That’s always been my way of the ninja in life. I don’t need a lot but I’d prefer more than “just enough”. I want to live a comfortable life.

While money is great and all, it doesn’t really affect my work or my need to strive for better things. Regarding career goals and job aspirations, I don’t really have either. Though I don’t think that would be really easy to tell. I’m not really ambitious but I’m also not one to just do his day’s work and leave. I like/strive for doing a good job, the best job I can without sacrificing the rest of my life (too much). But it’s not like I work really hard to get to Job A or Money B. It’s just my own personal standard that I follow everyday…which is a good thing because my standard for myself (and others…) is pretty high. If it were low and I weren’t going for Job A or Money B, I highly doubt I’d ever get anywhere.

I don’t know, I think other people have other goals. They want Job A or Money B. That’s most important to them. Am I the odd one out again?

Note: Regarding the again from above, I was at a townhall meeting a couple of weeks ago, around 80 people were there…and everyone was asked to write down their childhood dream. 79 people wrote down what they wanted to be as a child. A doctor, actor, astronaut, Batman, etc. I was the only one, out of 80 people, that interpreted the dream differently. My dream was to have an epic toy room, glass shelves, comics, all my toys in display cases, manga shelves, etc. I know I’ve always been a bit odd, an outsider…but this situation really stood out to me. Out of 80 people, I was the only one to interpret a question differently. I’m not really an out of the box thinker, I do it occasionally but I imagine my thought process is fairly linear and logical. Anyways…sometimes I really feel like the odd one out….

Anyways…there’s someone I know who comes from a rich background. Her husband is rich, she’s rich…they purchased a million dollar house on a whim, not even really considering the financial cost. But she works. She has the money that she doesn’t need to work…but she still works. How many people would work if they don’t have to? Though I can understand it, I can understand working even if you don’t have to because you need to challenge yourself. You’re not working for the money, you’re working for other reason. I get that.

What I don’t get is people that don’t work and aren’t rich. There are a few people in my life that don’t work and let their significant other pay for everything: mortgage, expenses, food, everything. And that’s okay with them. I can (slightly) understand when someone doesn’t work because they take care of kids during the day. But in an instance I’ve seen, this couple (who didn’t have kids at the time) had one person working and the other didn’t. She looked for a job but her attitude was so sh!tty, she didn’t want to do anything. There were a million reasons not to do something, “this is too hard”, “no one is hiring, I’ll try in a few months”. And this is what I don’t understand…none of these reasons factored in that she HAD to work to support herself and family.

I don’t understand not pulling your financial weight around in life. There are few that LIKE to work. I would say the majority of people do it because they have to to survive, to make ends me, to live their life well. But again, they’re working because they HAVE TO. I don’t understand being financially carried in life. To me, I find it exactly like being a bum.

Bums don’t contribute anything and leech off other hard workers. It’s the same as people who copy assignments, skip class and get notes from someone else, lie on resumes saying they’ve done stuff when they haven’t. It’s all they same…getting something out of doing nothing.

In what fantasy life does one think it’s okay to do this? Where’s the self-respect, where’s the independence, where’s the pride? I’ve thought about this a number of times but if Z had chosen not to work, to be lazy about life, to expect that I pay for everything…I would have ended it. I’m not one to be leeched off of. Just the same, I would feel bad getting a free ride in life. Again, it’s different if I were rich and we didn’t really need to make ends meet. Then Z could do whatever she wanted. Vice versa, if Z were rich then I *might* not feel bad about not working. But we’re not rich, either of us. We need to work to make ends meet, like most people.

Again, people take shortcuts sometimes, if my boss offers me a day off, even if I don’t know if I deserved it, I’m going to take it. I don’t know how much of that statement makes the rest of the post hypocrisy…but I felt I should mention that I don’t believe you have to work hard for EVERYTHING you do.

I wish life were so easy that we could do whatever we wanted. But it’s not. People that delude themselves and their significant other that they can do whatever they want when they shouldn’t…that pisses me off. Who am I to judge you ask? I’ll judge whoever the hell I want cuz I’m up here *hold hand at head level* and you’re down there *points to ground*. Yikes, this goes back to another topic I had about judging people and their right to judge people…I’ll save that rant for another time. For now, just think of me as an arrogant prick. Don’t worry, you can think that cuz it’s true.

/passionate post = long post = real post = /satisified warren