Headed Straight To Hell (II)

Headed Straight To Hell (II) - Let me give you a little update on my high frustration level with regard to that striking lack of employees and workforce in general. Well, it took just another full week and a total of 16 different places for my husband to call until we finally found a nice local guy who promptly delivered fire wood. Lord, have mercy! - Now, take this: Four weeks ago, I had an appointment with a podiatrist, but up to this very day, I have not received any medication whatsoever! At first, I was told that our insurance didn't cover the prescription drug the doctor had originally suggested. After a series of unsuccessful calls at the foot specialist's office, I have meanwhile agreed to foot the bill myself, but now the pharmacy is holding back on selling the product to me because they need the physician's approval. Okay, two days ago, I had my significant other call in at the doctor's, but again we were brushed off most politely with zero results. "Wrong movie" all over again! Incompetence, indifference, ignorance and inconsideration ultimately add up to insufficiency, no matter where you look these days. One thing for sure, our future does not look very promising considering our so highly developed societies will ultimately succumb to both negligence and abandonment as a direct consequence of missing staff in most service areas such as the medical field, the educational, the care- giving, the retail, the repair sector, etc. Pretty dire prospectives, if you ask me. - Back in my early thirties, I remember noticing that the pursuit of a more easy- going and stress- free life- style was in fact becoming a reality to more and more job 'drop- outs'. I shall never forget that bizarre interview in which that young modern hippie woman was romanticizing about the notion of the entire globe eventually turning their backs on conventional jobs and devoting themselves to exclusively creative careers such as singing, the fine arts and writing instead. What a mind- bendingly stupid idea! Who is going to clean up after us and take care of all our endless piles of garbage, just to name one example? BUT - and actually with that the entire matter stands or falls - most jobs are de facto still grossly underpaid which perhaps explains why fewer employees are taking pride in their low- income occupations. Today, people rather not work on the books but instead rely ever the more on cash- in- hand jobs which are hard to trace and not taxed. I think I speak for the majority of the plebs suggesting that politicians in general should for one no longer be given unfounded raises and for another receive no more than just one pension. All that extra money should go into a large fond and be spent on folks that can hardly manage to stay afloat financially despite working in multiple jobs. This way, we all would be given the necessary inspiration and motivation to ultimately accept working in careers that are just no longer considered desirable. After all, lots of those jobs on the lower pole are important and essential. - As an Austrian, I am completely aware of the negative connotation of that following statement, which in all fairness had been used long before its sarcastic propaganda purposes under NS reign during WWII. "Work brings freedom" was clearly ripped out of its original context to be found in Heinrich Beta's 1845 published script Geld und Geist  [Money and Mind ... it's not the faith for the egotistic sake of clergy and aristocracy that brings bliss but rather work setting man free ...] Work implies more or less regular activity which creates a certain routine, and this is the key here. Without discipline and structures, man's life may eventually turn into chaos due to non- productivity. Most of us simply need a certain mould to shape ourselves and also be shaped into beings beaming with pride, self- esteem and a strong sense of community based on a fulfilled life of purpose. We are not meant to live in seclusion as loners away from others. As my grandmother would put it, "One tends to to start overthinking just everything if they have too much time on their hands." - "That's why, it is so important to pursue work on a regular base", she would go on. Maybe her stance was a little on the extreme side, but I perfectly understand where she was coming from. Man needs to contribute work- wise so as not to completely detach from the rest and ultimately go rogue. - More next week.