Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success." - Tom Petty

In this day and age you would think that as a society we have come to the realisation that it is more important to us in life that we do what we enjoy rather than that which makes us the most money. In a time when the inequality in the distribution of income and wealth is it at an all time high we need not look very far to the see the magnitude of people who have made the to decision to choose income over passion. I encourage everyone to look at people around them, be it at work, at home, friends or even family and I have no doubt that you will know of at least one person if not more that has pick the path of money over passion. The investment banker with an engineering degree, the business analyst with a masters degree in science, these just being the obvious examples of this modern day dilemma. Not to mention the examples that are much harder to identify on the surface, the individuals that are pressured into tertiary education by family and friends or the individuals afraid of the stigma that is associated with the particular career or even not being aware that this is a career in the first place or finally the most commonly seen reason the fear that this will not be a viable source of income. This notion of viability has always been a hurdle but the more it is feared the stronger it becomes, without pioneers to lead the way we will not evolve as a society and no new occupations will be created. I am sure that a lot of the occupations that are common in the modern day where once thought of to be hobbies and passion projects and that by the individuals doing them could never be a viable source of income let alone a source of any income what so ever. 

The fixation of home rental being a dirty word and the notion that why would anyone waste their money paying off someone else's mortgage when they could pay off their own, this has been the core issue that has created a variety of by products in the current market place. Whenever we compare rent and ownership in today's society we must add investment to make this logical to our readers, this notion that the money that is saved must be spent on another asset or source of income is exactly why we as a society have become so obsessed with finding the career that will get the house that we make us happy rather than making a career from that which we are passionate about giving us infinite happiness. Why must we spend all of the income that is at our disposal when as soon as it is in our back account, why do we insist on living pay check to pay check, why, because this is how the banks want it, and who is encouraging this behaviour our government, why because this will strength the economy in the current capitalist system. Without debt the banks have little to earn and the capitalist system would fall apart, if we accumulate less wealth which always starts with more debt than we intern pay less interest, the government is not concerned with what impact this is having on the real majority the main concern is keeping the banks happy. What is wrong with renting, and not investing the money that we save from renting, of course the notion that we rent one hundred per cent of all property is not viable as without anyone to own the extra homes that they do not live in this will remove supple of rental properties. But rather those who can afford to purchase property and can afford to so without too much assistance from the bank do so but those who are not able to do so as they are yet to discovered away to make a lucrative amount of income from their passion projects can rent and still use their income to boost the economy by spending money on other means to support local businesses of invest in their passion project directly to become pioneers in the field.

We have come to a point where we are thinking of work less as an outlet of passion and expression and more of a clasp of restriction and control, why is it that we spend so much time in careers and jobs that do not harness our talents and strengths. We spend so much of our lives working, do we not deserve to be doing something that we love rather than just going to work every day to pay our oversized mortgage that we never needed in the first place. We look around and see that everyone else is as miserable as we are and the only ones that are happy at work are sportsmen and women and actors and actresses. We never stop to think there was a point when that was not a high earning career yet it is still around today, why, because of the passion, the drive, the desire to break to mould and do what they love. We wish that we were given the talents that they posses so we could forge such a meaningful existence, ignoring that fact that we all capable of doing so in our own right, majority of these movie and sporting stars would have face some setbacks in there time, rejection is not confined to only the small people. This drive for greatness is what has lead them to this and majority if not all did not follow this path seeking the ability to buy that house or to live in that street they did so because they hold passion and they want to achieve goals. Regardless of the field of interest we all need to following what we think we are meant to do and start following what we were born to do, because hope is what drive us and fear is all that can stop us, once your mind is made up it can do very powerful things.

BsB.

“He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.”

“He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.” - James Rozoff

Today's society has lead us down the path of wealth accumulation. We as a society expect our patrons to come into the world go to school get an education, find a job start working, buy a house buy a car and keep on doing so until we die. Why I ask do we all have to follow this path working to we retire and buying till our immanent death, how did we end up here and why do we all choose to accept this fate. Is it a generation issue or has this been going on for so long that no one can remember when and how it started, did our parent just follow this path as their parents did or was it pushed on them by the government and large scale organisations with the power to do so. 

Capital Accumulation is what Capitalism is based upon, the belief that we have all been put onto this planet to consume as much as possible and grow our assets and capital as much as we can. Regardless of if we understand why we are doing so, is it for our pleasure or is it so we can benefit as a society so our children and their children will benefit from the paths that we have laid for them. This is far from the case we only have a limited time on this earth and if we spend all our time trying to accumulate as much wealth as we can without enjoying the time that we have it will be over before we have to chance to experience it. All we need to do is look at the countless scientific experiments that prove that buying experiences not possessions give us real happiness. Yet we are all guilty of purchasing every new gadget that is released onto the market, from every new smart phone to smart TV everything that we own has to be the latest and greatest regardless of whether it bring us the joy that we seek from life we buy out of the fear of being left behind. We are hell bent on "Keeping up with Jones'' failing to realise who they actually are and that no matter how much we accrue there will always be someone who appears to be in front us at first glance but in fact we do not see the truth so we are left chasing shadows.

This may seem strange when we look back on society and see that the Ancient Egyptians believed the same basic premise, regardless of the reasoning that lay behind it, they still had the same fundamental belief that he who dies with the most possessions we have the most enjoyable afterlife. That is somewhat more logical than that exist today, we do not believe that these possessions are carried with us after we pass yet we gather as much as possible. Some may argue that we are passing this on to our family and friends via a will but we are then passing on the notion that is what they must do with their lives. It may be different if we were there to see them enjoy it but we're not, and often when our loved ones make the decision to give this to us before we they pass we are forced into giving them the fake emotions that they crave. I say do not die a child live like buy experiences rather than toys, these toys may make you happy for a moment but the memories of an experience are with us for a lifetime.

BsB.