Date:   6/2/2006 6:13:17 AM ( 18 y ago)
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19236, once again thank you for an enlightening post. It highlights a situation whereby, if any one of us were to take the time to put under the microscope how any of the many people out there in the world go about making their careers at their "job", there is quite a bit of food for thought therein. No matter how different people may perceive themselves as being from other people from other cultures and other parts of the world, there are a few things we all share in common. We all are physically born into and die out of this world, two things that every human undeniably (operative word - human!) has in common. It is between these two extremes where a lot of people seem to spend time trying to differentiate themselves from their fellow humans. We all may do different jobs, but the idea of having a "job", making a living, out of a career, earning $$$, is a fairly common thread among many many people all around this world. In fact, this is such a common thread amongst people that it is my belief that people in general have a tendency to not think about OR look the other way when it comes to the answer to the question of "so, what do YOU do for a living" in considering what some people do for employment compared to others. Why? Well, we all gotta make a living, right? Everybody has to put meat on their table, right? (or do they/we?....something about Obey Nature is tickling my memory banks ;) Who are we (any of us) to question or judge how some people go about it compared to others ? (just playing devil's advocate here).

For sake of argument, I'll put my own under the microscope. The past 12 years were spent working in Tech Support of a global computer supply corporation, a company that sells a wide array of computer products and services. My job, basically, was to hold the hand of call-in customers and help them figure out which products to buy AND how to make them work after the fact, regardless of why they were in the market for such products in the first place. In my career of over 25 years working in the computer support industry, short of "sales and marketing tactics", I never once noticed any of my corporate employers being concerned as to WHY? (for what purpose?) any one of their customers ever bought any of their products. For all they/we knew, the customer was buying said products & services to help facilitate the engineering of the next weapon of mass destruction, or perhaps to help install the next hi-tech mass human resource asset tracking/monitoring system. Computer systems have gotten pretty good at keeping track of "things", any kind of thing, you name it, computer networks and systems can help keep track, monitor and in some cases manipulate/control such assets. During the past 12-year career, I took more phone calls and helped more strangers from all over the world resolve their computer dilemmas and needs than even I can tabulate. For what purpose? Well, mine was to earn a buck, theirs (the customers), I ultimately do not have a conclusive idea. Shortly after 911 I helped various customers calling in from the pentagon needing help fixing & restocking computer gear that had gotten destroyed. Same era, I spoke to folks at Union Carbide who were concerned with securing their multi-thousand gallon tanks of deadly chemicals. Over the years I spoke to all kinds of agents, departments and people within the greater government, military, media, banking and education complex, all who are known to be among the kinds of people genuinely concerned with tracking/montitoring/manipulating assets. Did I care why they were calling me for help? Did I even wonder about it? Was I merely just doing my job, putting in my 8 hours a day? For the longest time I honestly never did think about such things, I was just earnin a buck. But in the last few years such thoughts did creep into my mind. It occured to me that I was in fact a lending hand, a cog, in the very enslaving system that I'd been growing to be untrusting of and subsequently appalled by in revolting from it.

No, at no time, even during the latter stages when it finally dawned on me that I was likely contributing to the further enhancement of the system intended to enslave us all - me included, I did not get the sick laughter and enjoyment out of it that the perv pharmacists' tech person you described. The opposite affect occured. I eventually found that I could not tolerate the idea anymore, so about a year ago to this day, I gave up the $$, walked away from corporate cog life and have since being trying to find a way to exist in this world without contributing to it's demise.


PS - as to the latter, I have not yet found a way or ways to completely be uninvolved, it's a complicted world, with many built-in booby traps that I've spent a life being conditioned in how to exist in while in many cases being an unwitting participant, assistant and spectator of said traps. In the interim, I have found ways to reduce my contribution and participation in such traps, a lessening effect, but short of going to live under a rock in some remote place, it does not seem possible to continue existing each day without somehow, willingly or not, contributing to the mess..... a fine mess, Olly.











 

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