Be careful how you spend your time

Either I make it, or I make it

I turned down a 10k a month job, as some of you might have read in my other post. I got bored of kayaking, so I took a job, after turning down a bunch of contract in 2020. Thought, hell, why not? A bit of money, spend the winter in Mexico, find a cute Latina to cuddle with, drinking lime with a sprinkle of Corona (yeah, in this order) and empanadas and get stuck with my truck on the beach: sounds like a heck of a good winter.

But I quit on day 6. That should be a non-story, right? I mean, what's so Critical Shower Thought about it? The divine is often (read: always) found in the mundane and the normalcy of the day-to-day life.

On a quiet morning, a few days ago, I asked The Boss if I would be so kind as to make us coffee for the boyz in the field. He got all upset about it. No one ever asked him anything so outrageous apparently! Make coffee! Bringing in the field! "AM I A SLAVE TO YOU NOW!?" You get the idea. I apologize profusely, shocked that I might have hurt his feeling.

You can tell about the character of a man by the way he reacts to things.

Epictetus said that it isn't what happens to a man that is important to observe, but rather how he reacts to things outside of his control.

Seneca said that it takes an extraordinary man to not allow his time to be stolen from him, but I'll say that it takes a helluva man to not allow his coffee break to be denied, or even worst, a request to have coffee brought to the field denied. I am kidding of course ( or am I?), but I choose my jobs carefully. It ought to have a good vibe! It always starts with a good boss!

I choose jobs based on the quality and taste of the coffee in the office. If it sucks, then I buy the best stuff (usually from Phil and Sebastian in Calgary, or Bows and Arrrows) for the boyz and offer a taste of heaven to my fellow coworkers. After all, I'm the dude that traveled through the Americas in a Jeep to find the best coffee out there: I live for coffee and kayaking and driving, the rest is optional in my life. Once, I got hired because it said on my resume that I good make good coffee above 4000 meters altitude. They loved it, they hired me. I made the coffee for the duration of the contract and we had a heck of a good time in the office. I was underqualified for the position, yet, everyone loves a good coffee! **Hire for the attitude, train for the skill**, 'member that.

So yeah.

He snapped and got all upset for a simple request.

Before you guys start throwing a stone at me, rest reassure, I would not have quit for that. That was simply the drop for me, the final straw that broke the camel's back (There were some pretty damn big safety issues that almost kill a dude on the first day I show up. I'm a mine supervisor: I got a name in line. The boss didn't allow me to rectify those things... I am surprised that I lasted that long actually!)

The sum of how you spend your days will result in something called "your future". How you spend every day on Earth is dictating how your future will be.

Every day, you are putting a step towards a potential future. It's like a train track. Sometimes, the best thing to do is to simply step aside, and change track, **rather than trying harder to bend the unbendable tracks!**.

People don't like quitting. Cause quitting exposes you to failure and uncertainties.

The school system never taught you about quitting. Quite the contrary! Quitting is for losers! Quitting is for the weak! Quitting is bad!

And so the mass stays stuck in a sucker position, either in a job or in regards to a partner. They think that with enough good vibes and enough goodwill, the destination of the railway will magically be changed, the tracks will bend, and the sun will get brighter.

Wrong.

You simply need to change the lifeline. Woah, dude!

Spend your time on Earth carefully. Be extremely careful when you sell your time out. If you accept to do so, at least pick someone that rewards the nobility of character... and one that doesn't risk your life too much (without a noble cause: I'm 100% supporting our soldiers on the front line).

Death before the defeat of the soul!

Untrammeled freedom!

Unmasked truths!

Nobility of character!

Invincibility of the soul!

If you are stuck on a terrible train track, today is not too late to step aside. You are not bond to the track of the train; what ties you down there is the pressure of a world telling you to stay put, to stay down, to accept your fate.

You know what? Fuck it!

Out.

J.