Do what I do. Drive around and scope out the deadest businesses you can find. I’m talking if there’s more than 1 or 2 customers an hour, keep looking.
Apply inside. They usually don’t do online applications.
Once you have the job you can sit and play Steam Deck and Switch all day. Dust and mop once a week to keep it looking sharp, and then play games or take a call center at home job and do it from there. Learn an instrument.
It’s much more fulfilling than slaving away and “growing” for some other muhfucker.
At this point I can play the guitar like a mothafuckin’ riot. Doot doo doot dee doot do doo. Dunt duh dunt duh duh nuh.
And he might have ended up being a standup dude in another time.
That’s something that I think about often.
The average intelligence of the population of the world isn’t that great. Most people accept whatever reality is instilled in them. If you take a little baby and raise it up to think of some people as animals, they’ll probably never question it, and being surrounded only by people who accept that reality, they’ll never have a reason to question it. I very rarely meet a person who has ever really questioned their reality. It always surprised me when I do.
Most abolitionists came from a world where they were they weren’t exposed to slavery, so they were able to question it. Even then, only around 2% of the population were abolitionists, they just fought really hard for their cause until it rose up high enough to actually be considered for action.
I’m not even putting myself into that small group of people smart enough to question their reality. If I hadn’t grown up with the internet there’s a good chance I’d be a preacher in a Pentecostal holiness church somewhere. That small handful of people who question their reality help spread their questions to the idiot masses.
That’s why I admire people who fight for positive change above all other people. They fight an uphill battle daily. Sometimes they win big and I’m grateful they do.