Very nice site!

Hi, Yule. I can empathize with you, re: your notes about giving up work and so on.

I’m at the point where I can’t bring myself to do work that supports or doesn’t question the status quo, the mantras of business or anything else that has a sniff of denial or happy-face positive thinking on it.

And damn it, it’s hard some days to keep believing in yourself, and wondering if there are only a few of us that seem to see that so many aspects of our society are in some kind of limco between torpor and frenzy. Especially for me – I was brought up in a home where ideals, value and intellectual pursuit and dialogue were highly valued – this doesn’t work so well in today’s biz world.

This will probably sound kinda funny, but I’m starting to think that blogging is one of the most sensible and sane things one can do – work, for most people, is only about getting money – if they stop to examine why they are doing waht they do, it might get scary … and the only other answer is a practical one, I think … must work to pay bills.

I’ve decided that blogging is a better use of my time than working at things I don’t believe in or can’t support (I’ve been a management consultant for most of the past 20 years, and can’t stomach pretending that I’m helping make things better … it’s the definition of “better” that trips me up all the time.

Yule, there’s some neat yakking going on over at Wealth Bondage on somewhat related themes.

I’m not looking for completeness, that is for sure. I might not quit blogging, either, but that’s not so sure. It’s a time-management thing. I shouldn’t have said that about being out of a job since it makes me look like a woman of leisure (I wish!), or like someone looking for a job. The fact is, though, that I’ve been homeschooling my kids for …3.5 years??, yes, since 6/00, and all I can say is that regular school (private or public) has a huge custodial function in society so that people (adults) can do things other than be responsible for the education of their children. And it’s a great — GREAT — thing if it works for your kid(s), ’cause it gives you x-number of hours to go to work or do other brilliant things each week. But if it ain’t working for your kid(s), and you take over the responsibility yourself, be prepared to start paying and paying (largely in time). So, I’m not really looking for a job, unless it were something I could do in the time I spend blogging (i.e., about 30-180 minutes per day). Then, if I had that mythical job, I could stop blogging. Heh. Whatever.

If you’re looking for a completeness, you will never find it in a blog. Blogs don’t box — they keep drawing you along.