“Employment Motivation” – or Get A Fucking Job, You Lazy Twat
Today here at MisterShouty, I’m going to go out of my way to be helpful to the younger generations. The Millennials, if you will.
There is a whole lot of complaining going on amongst people of a certain age – between 16 and 30, really – about how tough it is to be in their position; about how hard it is to get the job and income that they desire; that it’s more difficult for them than for any other generation in history because of the way that the world is shaped these days.
I’m going to break this down for you from first principles. The root of all of your problems is that you have been constantly, systematically and remorselessly lied to by your parents and by all of the media that you consume.
I’m talking about the outright lie that parents peddle to their kids, making them believe that “You can do anything you want.”
Now, I’m not talking as an embittered old man here. I may BE an embittered old man, but I’m not talking as one. I’m telling you, from a position of 100% truth and logic, that this parental claim is demonstrably bullshit of the highest order.
“You Can Do Anything You Want!”
No, you can’t. If you want to live independently, or if you want to be able to pay your own rent and buy your own food, and if you want to have money in the bank for any kind of life, you have to devote MOST of your waking life to doing something called “Work”.
For the uninitiated, “work” is defined as “Exertion or effort, directed to accomplish something” or, more aptly in this context, “employment in some form of industry, especially as a means of earning one’s livelihood.”
That means “Get a job”. Do something that someone else wants you to do, for 8 to 12 hours per shift, in exchange for money. Preferably, something that you can put up with doing, but be under no presumption that you will find a job to want to do!
Let me tell you these UNIVERSAL truths:
NO ONE wants to go to work every day.
Out of EVERYONE in employment of all kinds across the Western world, MAYBE 1% are doing a job that they enjoy.
Do you really think that you are part of the 1% that gets their dream job handed to them?
Do you really think that anyone at all gets their dream job “handed” to them?
No. This links into the lies that the media you consume is telling you every day.
Being successful at ANYTHING is fucking hard work. Lots of fucking hard work. You know how long it takes to become an expert at something? Anything?
10,000 Hours
That is, 10,000 Hours of actual beneficial practice at that activity. So, if you practice for 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, you will need to do so for roughly 10 years before you’re actually good enough to earn decent money doing so. That means, if you’re 16 and standing outside a TV studio hoping Simon Cowell will make you famous, the odds aren’t just seriously against you. They are literally insurmountable.
You think that, just because you’ve seen a couple of people get a recording contract after winning The X Factor, that that supports the idea that “anyone can achieve their dream”? Shows like The X Factor are proving the EXACT OPPOSITE of that.
Look at the tens of thousands of people that go to the open auditions. Look at the ones that fail before the televised stages. Look at the ones that get booted out along the way, never to be seen or heard of again.
Hell, look at the WINNERS that get one hit single, that they didn’t write, so get no royalties from … and didn’t release themselves, so get no money from sales … then they MAYBE get an album recorded, before the whole country gets obsessed with the next chump in the limelight for their 15 minutes, and last year’s winner is back behind the counter at a fast food restaurant, or plastering people’s ceilings for 8 hours a day to make ends meet.
The whole concept is a lie.
YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING YOU WANT
That is, unless you’re happy making no money, living off of benefits or handouts from your mom. And THAT is the truth.
MisterShouty 