Hate your job? philosophical

[Silver]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]https://www.reddit.com/r/vandweller..._your_job_philosophical_ponderings_long_post/[size=small][font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Hate your job? philosophical ponderings (long post) (self.vandwellers)[/font]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]submitted 4 days ago by spongue[/font][/font][/size]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"I wonder if vandwelling is truly on the rise in a big way; if it is more often floating to the top of people's minds as a viable life option, and taken seriously.[/font]


[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]And why not? It is an option that allows for a greater ratio of free time to work time, and a greater amount of flexibility.[/font]
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Our system depends on a consumerist economy and does everything in its power to encourage citizens to work hard, earn a lot of money, buy a lot of things, and maintain a high level of luxury.[/font]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif] It does its best to convince us that these things are not only desirable, but necessary. Listen carefully and you will see that these assumptions are built in to our society, they are ambient noise that people don't even notice anymore because they are taken for granted:[/font]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"I couldn't possibly survive without constant access to my own private flushing toilet, hundreds/thousands of square feet to store my belongings, a full kitchen, and household appliances. [/font]

[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]I can't be safe unless I have private property to exist on, where I can lock out everyone else. Since I must have these things, I must rent or own a building. Since these things aren't given to me without compensation, I must use money to buy them, and to get that money I must have a job, where I must spend a large portion of my waking life and probably hate it; any other way of life is unworkable or undesirable."[/font]




Audio version

 

[Billyidol]

Silver,

I love it! It puts many reasons together very succinctly!

John

 

[Iggy]

What job?

 

[Silver]

My eyes aint what they use to be.
Nice to have a robot read to me aka Audio version.
We have some very smart people in this community.

Sometimes I listen to positive podcasts & mantras
throughout the day. It helps me a lot to stay on point.
What job? : yes. I can't wait til I retire.

 

[eDJ_]

People are going to figure out economic constraint's to live with the means that they have available to them.  Whether it is a Tiny Home, a Van or whatever other vehicle they have available to them,  or if they have the
personal skills,  communal living.

A few years back I watched a TV show (may be 60 Minutes) about these construction trades people who
were building and living in those big "McMansions" that had been so popular with the yuppie types.  The "We've Made it Houses" as they were called back then.

But these folks may have had as many as 10 families participating in the building of these homes and living in them as they were being built.   In the morning the kids were off to school and the work started.  The house
was built and under roof and the major functions, kitchen, bath rooms, etc were in place and blue plastic
tarps covered framed walls before they were "sheet rocked". 

This may be another alternative lifestyle few have heard of.  It would definitely be for the more socially gregarious.   But it will have its community moving about less frequently as they are landed and aren't off grid.  So when they are finishing a large home some members are starting a new one fir the next migration
when the finished home sells.  Where I live in Ohio,  there are some huge old Barns with hand hewn stone
foundations.  Historians have explained to me that back in the post Civil War days that troops of families
with perhaps as many as 50 people would arrive to build these things living in them while they were under
construction before completing one and moving on to live in tents while getting the next one under roof.

What I like about the Van dwelling lifestyle is the mobility and flexibility of living better with less and having a better live than many of the money hoarding  Billionaire class.  (who spend their days worrying about that oh so elusive dollar out there somewhere that they haven't managed to capture yet) Working for myself has been far more rewarding than the Corporate jobs I suffered in my earlier life.