Sometimes — usually as a side effect of tidying up my desk and my workspace — I come across various sheets of notepaper and post-it notes I have written to myself, containing an array of plans of things I'd really like to get done, and changes I need to make to my websites and blogs, and perhaps ways I want to expand my businesses.
Much of the time — as happened a short while ago — I end up just looking at them, revisiting how I thought when I made them, sighing rather deeply... and then throwing them away.
Why?
Because the realist in me realizes that there's no way in hell I'm ever going to have time to take on any of these things. I barely manage to keep things running as is — by which I mostly mean keeping the bills paid and the electricity turned on — and that takes about 70 hours a week… so where on Earth would I find time to take on more work?
I often think about the frequent debates society has about "the rich and the poor" and the frequently observed growing gap between the "haves" and "have nots… " And I suppose the part of the debate that I find depressing is that so much of the haves' wealth is built on the shoulders of the work of the have nots.
Maybe that's an inevitable part of free markets, but the old notions of someone working their way from mail room clerk to company president faces far more hurdles than it did 50 years in the past.
Meanwhile, those of us who occupy these “crypto social blogging” venues often offer up and nice song-and-dance about how these kinds of opportunities are going to change the world, and we are moving towards an age of prosperity.
But really?
Aren't we just creating another iteration of a few "elites" and an ocean of "hopefuls?"
We would have to spend an awful lot of hours, accumulating an awful lot of Blurt Power, before we could even hope to actually make ends meet as a result of curating worthy content!
Which isn't to say that I won't continue! It's just a very long way from "here" to $100 a day, or whatever it takes to be alive on this planet.
In the meantime, you can't pay for your life with promises of a glorious future...
Just musing out loud here... pay me no mind! In the meantime, have a wonderful rest of your weekend!
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I have many notes of ideas that I have felt like are not worth doing. Half finished stories and lots of hours doing things that I have abandoned without much result. At this point I'm in a fortunate position where if I'm careful what I spend I don't really need much coming in, so I am struggling a lot less.
I've been approaching these things as long term investments and something fun to do in my spare time. It could turn into something much more but I'm not sure what will happen.
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