The Underemployed

So you have a job.  Let me ask, are you satisfied with your life?  Do you want more?  So then let me also ask, are you capable of doing more?

Just about everyone thinks they should get paid more money.  This inherently defines underemployment (from your perspective).  A problem arises when you feel disillusioned and left-behind... forgotten about... taken for granted.  There is little we can do "in the system" to change this.

This leads to frustration and apathy and people "hating" what they do.  Essentially, it is a life wasted doing things with no intrinsic value other than being a part of the same system (for the masses) that enables you to pay the rent and put food on the table.  What's worse, for most, is that there is no light at the end of the tunnel.  Many people are simply resolved to this as their reality.

So let me ask again, are you capable of doing more?  And, if so, what would that be?  We offer one alternative, but this "something more" doesn't need to be "our" alternative.  Broaden your lens.  If you don't have enough money because you are underemployed, what are you willing to do about it?

We teach an alternative.  This is what a Learning Community exists for... to perpetuate a cycle of teaching and learning, teaching and learning... focused on core skills, values, and processes.

If you are underemployed and want more, look in the mirror. Find something (anything) that will enable you to earn extra.  For some (in the masses category), this means a second job with another hourly wage scenario in the "oppression" system.

For many others (those for whom this is written to inspire), there is a whole world of opportunity that is based on personal value and personal production.  This world functions off of the Law of Compensation where competence and compensation are inextricably linked.

To gain competence in a specialized field, you have to learn new things.  Our Learning Community teaches these things with the goal of income supplementation leading to income replacement.

At that point, you will be in a position to determine if having a job still fits with who you are and how you function in this world.

So let me ask one last time, are you capable of doing more?