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June 19 new blogI have a couple new blog entries on my tribe.net blog at http://people.tribe.net/trevorj
I'm trying to keep that one based on educational material I seek out.
-trevor June 06 good day's workI'm laying on my bed passing in and out of consciousness, half-napping and half listening to my roomate and his buddy conversate over some beers in front of the game. They just finished the local college's applied plumbing course and are sharing stories about tools, work, employers and careers. For my roomate this new direction he's taken is one of many options he's got as a young adult. For his friend, the story is a little more interesting. Norm is a 40-something year old NewFoundLander living on the West Coast for the first time. He's found a like-hearted group of friends in my roomate and myself and several others. He's been raised from humble, if not troubled beginnings and has been searching for that leg-up to get him: "what i rightfully deserves'!" And all he said was "That was a good day's work here today." He's so excited to be working. So excited to have a trade, to have a profession, a title, a job and a purpose. So excited to be able to focus on making a living on his own terms. It's a simple statement but coming from him it has more weight, its a pure statement of satisfaction - something I too crave and desire. So I ask myself, "What would I consider a good day's work?". What would leave me at the end of the day, satisfied and content? Spent and empty, yet full of pride and commitment?
I've searched in my mind through all of the jobs I should or could do. Through all of the qualities that inspire me. The environment, health, spirituality, social work, writing, not-for-profits, music, etc, etc, etc. I think that the quality that I most desire is working for the future. I have always been a dreamer. It is my resting state - to dream. But I am also a builder, creative and constructive. All I have to find is my vision. My vision for a unified and unique future. A new step for the people around me; the abundant, wealthy, intelligent & educated, creative, moral people around me. We live in a heaven here in the west. The vast majority of us are wealthy beyond belief. We live in the comfort of our stable homes with all our basic necessities ready at the flick of a switch. Of course there is poverty within our own society relative to our wealth but, when comparing our overall abundance to those in other parts of the world dying of thirst and starvation, we are a utopia.
But where can we go from here? How can we use our blessed circumstances and set a higher bar for the future? How can we provide our own beacon of light to the rest of the world, set an example and expand our perspective even wider?
I need to find the tangible form of these thoughts and dreams. Only then can I sleep better, only then can I breath easier, and connect to the present the way I am guided to do so. |
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