HUMAN
BEINGS, ALL OF US, ARE BASICALLY BONE IDLE AND LAZY- we are
designed that way. Before supermarkets, when you had to hunt and gather
there were long periods of drought, floods, locust plagues, before that
months of frozen wastelands. To survive humans learnt to make absolute
pigs of themselves during good times and store up the fat and
became depressed and went to their caves during times when there was no
food.
WHEN I RETIRED I THANKED MY EMPLOYER THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND
TRAINING WITH ALL SINCERITY FOR THE JOB THEY HAD PROVIDED ME WITH THO
NOT THE MOST FINANCIALLY BRILLIANT JOB MY EMPLOYER HAD WITHOUT
FAIL FOR THIRTY THREE YEARS PUT MY PAY IN THE BANK EVERY FORTNIGHT AND I
HAVE BEEN VERY GRATEFUL FOR THIS SECURITY . I know what some of my women
friends have had to do to feed their kids.
PROVIDED ME WITH A SUPER SCHEME THAT WAS WELL ORGANISED AND PLANNED THE
FACT I PAID FOR IT MYSELF IRRELEVANT IT WAS STILL A GOOD SCHEME.
PROVIDED ME WITH PLEASANT WORKING CONDITIONS AND HOLIDAYS.
I have no regrets about my choice of work even though at the risk of
sounding arrogant I could after the HSC have done anything I liked
with the marks I got I have never been sorry I chose to teach.
If you like kids and you MUST it is a rewarding profession. It also
saves you from a lot of sleepless nights, dirty nappies and endless
worry because other people do all this and you just get to enjoy their
children's company after they have put in all the hard work.
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BECAUSE THE HUMAN
BEING IS BASICALLY LAZY.
ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE CAN
OVERCOME THE INERTIA AND GET OUT OF
BED EVERYDAY FOR YEARS AND GO TO WORK DAY IN DAY OUT.
THE REST KNOW THEY CAN JUST SPONGE OFF
THESE PEOPLE.
In most relationships there is the worker and the idle layabout no
morals here its just about survival.
In the corporate world or in any business 80% of the work is done by 20%
of the people. While the workers work the rest, play patience on the
computer, older bludgers, the younger ones "game" on the computer,
drink coffee and gossip ( that's the non smokers old and young covered)
the smokers go out for a puff. The more sophisticated bludgers do lunch
for four hours.
THINK WITHOUT YOUR EGO OR RESUME IN MIND AND HONESTLY WHAT DO YOU REALLY
DO ALL DAY AT WORK, NOT MUCH REALLY.
The people who do the dirty jobs work hard and according to the producer
of the programme called DIRTY JOBS they are all really happy people. I
guess if you are wading knee deep in excrement it's a bit hard to think
or worry about much else.
THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM WAS ONCE A SOCIAL SAFETY NET FOR THE OLD (
and that happens to everyone thru no fault of their own) the genuine
people who thru no fault of their own have health issues and worker's
compensation for those INJURED WHILE WORKING.
Now these social institutions, are for, a large number of
Australians, simply a way of life.
WHEN THE GENERATION OF PEOPLE RAISED ON THE PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC ARE
GONE AND THEIR NUMBERS ARE SLOWLY DIMISHING what will everyone do
then. Maybe we will have two groups only CENTRELINK employees and the
rest who collect the benefits.
WORK OF COURSE IS A LOT MORE THAN MAKING MONEY IT IS ABOUT SETTING AN
EXAMPLE TO YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY BECOME INDEPENDENT, HELPING OTHERS,
MAKING A CONTRIBUTION.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES AROUND
THE WORLD
In India because they have so many people they have 18 people stamp your
passport, this keeps people occupied, in America they send you out to
hunt snakes and check on gator numbers and in Australia you can just
collect the dole and go surfing, bushwalking or shopping or if you
can't actually admit you don't want to work - you can collect Austudy and do courses Uni,
TAFE ( you can, on government funds become a highly qualified non
worker and tell people you are "gunna" be a doctor, dentist, vet, pilot,
engineer, theoretical physicist etc but be warned (if you are
actually attending these places with the view to completing a
qualification as quickly as possible and then working and paying your
taxes you could be viewed with suspicion) or actually a lot of
people just go down the club and play the pokies apparently no-one
actually checks and you can keep this up till you are
old enough and then you can collect the old age pension. Apparently the
government has stopped this sort of thing by raising the age, to much
higher than it used to be, when you can collect the old age pension.
Great idea- now some hardworking bricklayer can drag himself to the
building site till he drops and the non workers can complete another degree
or do honours or surf and shop a bit longer. That's a great
solution isn't it? Sheer brilliance really. Luckily there are people who
do actually go to work and pay taxes otherwise there might be a spot of
bother with this system.
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WAYS TO AVOID WORK
whilst I think some of these are dodgy I have seen it done and the
people who do it are well fat and ready to face whatever comes their way
in the future in terms of famine or flood.
1. Marry a worker and sit around all day in a hotel, drinking, gambling
and womanising in a shirt your wife has ironed telling other women "she
just does not understand me." If you have an interest in animals do it
at the track horse or greyhound it doesn't matter the tab is everywhere.
If you have a bit of success on the punting dabble with a few
recreational drugs just so you don't get bored.
2. Set up a dodgy little lawn mowing business call it a LANDSCAPING
SERVICE just for your ego and then find a few sad, desperate blokes on
the dole who cannot get a job anywhere because of health issues,
appearances or whatever and work them into the ground. Pay them cash so
you don't have to pay workers' compensation insurance or superannuation
and if they complain about the conditions threaten to dob them in to
Centrelink for not declaring their income. If they whinge too much and
become a problem just dob them in yourself and tell them your ex-wife
did it to get at you for being so successful and just attempting to
destroy your business. Think I'm kidding I've seen it dozens of
times with a slight variation furniture removalists, grape picking,
courier services.
3. BECOME A PROFESSIONAL STUDENT.
Sit around a Metropolitan university where you can live in the centre of
a major city for about two hundred dollars a week on campus which is
very cheap compared to an apartment, claim rent assistance to help you
cover costs. Collect Austudy and extend your degree for years. Think I'm
kidding go and check out the university bar at any university in
Australia.
Interestingly you will find no foreign students doing this they come
from countries where they realise what a great opportunity this is and
just simply work hard and get out to continue working hard.
4. FAKE AN INJURY AT THE RAILWAYS, dockyards etc - THAT YOU GOT AT
THE PUB WHEN YOU FELL OVER PISSED AND DID YOU KNEE AND THEN COLLECT
WORKER'S COMPENSATION TILL THE END OF YOUR DAYS.
5. Produce a very large family and collect family benefits.
6. CHEAT, LIE, SCAM AND STEAL IN WAYS THAT OVER THE YEARS HAVE SIMPLY
AMAZED ME - never ultimately successful I think I wonder what would
happen if these people spent their time using the amazing amount of
energy dreaming and scheming up these ideas and actually did an honest
days work but then one of them told me she hadn't thought it up she's
seen it in a movie. UNBELIEVABLE.
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