These Times

These Times

Dear Everyone,

I am writing this essay or blog to all of you who are worried because
your have lost your job or think you are going to lose your job.
My son when he was young said to me "Daddy can you get fired so you can
stay home with me."

I am a professional Computer Consultant Probably the worst job in the world

Charles Dickens said in a tale of two cities.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it
was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the
season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of
despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we
were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."

What is happening now is a turning point in history.

I am not a historian my second wife was but I am saying this is end of the industrial revolution

and the start of the green revolution. Of course the worst thing you can say to a historian is you are a

revisionist historian.

When you lose your job it is not the losing of the job that hurts. It

is the wounding of your pride in your personal faith that tomorrow is
a better day. And after beating yourself to death you come out the
other side and you say that sure was a shit job and I am glad it is
over but where do i go now.
And the answer is you go where you wanted to go in the first place but
the job was holding you down. We all fear not having that paycheck
come in. That is where the term Wage Slave comes from.

You see a forest of bills stretching to the horizon.

That fear can put you back into that seat you just left. But a few take the
oportunity to examine there lives and see the folly and now seek to go
on that road they always wished for. For every change there are people
who stick to the old way and those who stick to the new way. We think
everyone must follow the same path but the truth is we humans follow all
paths at the same time. Not individually but as a group. I like the
analogy of forest fires. They are necessary to burn the old so the new
can start afresh. We have just had a forest fire. The old guard the
Republicans have died and lost there way. The religious right has
foundered on the shores of reality. I say this not as judgement but as
a truth we all can see.

We have a black president and first lady.

You see it through the eyes of Americans but to the rest of the world
there is now light and those who had short comings ie Europeans are
shown to be frauds. I lived in Africa the year of Obama and the people
shouted for joy and i expect Jesus traveling into Jersulumn had an
equal triumphant entrance. I could not walk the streets without someone
shouting Obama at me as if I was his personal emissary.

I am suggesting you find someway to help

Make it personal (giving to feed the world don't count) Make it personal and real

Find some one and help that person not with money but with care and a helping

hand to get them over the abyss we see before us. A few years ago I lay in the hospital dying.

My family was told to search for a place to bury me. The details were grusesome 8

broken ribs, back broken in many places a collapsed lung and 23pints
of blood. But I didn't know how to give up. I wanted to die the pain
was so great but we don't know who we really are until we face a
calamity such as now. I have been fired or quit over 50 jobs in my
career and each one hurt the only time it didn't take a personal toll
is when hundreds got laid of at the same time. But each and every time
I had to go throught the process. I would feel like Jesus

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

And the hurt felt like a dagger through your soul. And for days or even weeks you could not see
straight because of the tears in your eyes and that ache in your soul.
You have been rejected thrown away. Some turn to anger and yell and
scream at your old boss your old company. As a computer contractor i
got so i could feel when the day was soon approaching. Once in
DC i had my bags packed and everything i had at work out of there. The
next day management came around with a shoe box to collect everyones
badge. Your life has ended your next paycheck uncertain a cloud of
dispair falls around you and seeps into your soul. I guess we will
call it stage one. If you are lucky not everyone was fired and you can
call your friends and get daily doses of the life left behind.
As you hear the stories of others who fell at the same time.
But then you remember unemployment and up to 6 months to find another
job. But I was a contractor and getting unemployment was next to
impossible. The last time i received unemployment was over 25 years
ago. We use to have to stand behind the yellow line and get scolded if
we were not a perfect docile sheep. I hated going to the unemployment
office each week. And they never found me a job either. But today is
different and you should go to the unemployment office and search
thier data base. Be creative look outside your comfort zone. Call up
your friends I have gotten several jobs just that way.

And learn to be humble

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That is a hard lesson to learn.

" I tell you the truth, It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again

I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

It is harder for an arrogant man to get a job. Again
I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for an arrogant man to get a job.

You have to find the right balance not egotistical and not a wimp.

Firm confidence without arrogance.

And in my case I had to play down my experience or my future bosses
would be scared to hire me.
Each of you have a place and know what you must do and until you lose
the arrogance you will be unemployed.
A few bosses are looking for arrogance but they have to be more arrogant than you.
And then there are a few of you who will take a hobby or a love of
something into the realm of commerce. This is a hard road but the
rewards are there and you don't have to fight that demon of only if i
would have.

So why is this collapse so good.

Because now we will get health care for everyone, a gentler society
now we are going to be green. We have changed from the industrial
revolution to the green revolution and the whole planet has changed
not just the USA. I know there is talk of the demise of the dollar.
Travel the world and tell me which currency is better. Whether it is
justified or not the rest of the world dreams of coming to the USA.
The brightest and best of other countries drive our taxies work in our
warehouses. Lawyers, Doctors, hairdressers any occupation you can
think of they go from high to low just to enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven(ie USA)

The USA is where they dream

they lie, cheat, and steal to come here. I know
there is much corruption here but think of Kenya where I just came
from, I had my motorcycle stolen and the police were hitting on my
wife in front of me and to let the boy go I had to bribe them.And when

with the Police Chief I saw the face of death I had never been so close

to evil and death in my life. When woman complains she was raped and

goes to the police the police will rape her. I was there during the riots,

people getting slaughtered because they were from a different tribe.

Apartments abandoned businesses burnt to the ground, huge fleets of buses carrying refuges.

Oh how much we have to be grateful for

I had an internet cafe and i paid a worker a $1.25 a day.

Now how much did you make a day.I had the
cheapest meal in all the world in Kenya twelve cents. A bowl of rice
with bean soup over the top. So you live in a country so great that
even when we lose our jobs we are better off than 90% of the world.
So next you

lay out a map of your talents and desires.

And you pick a path. Do you need more schooling, nows a great time to
pick it up. Of course we make plans that never work out but that is
what makes life so interesting. The wider your horizon the sooner you
will be back earning money.
And now you can buy a home and get up to $8,000($6,000 plus not first
time buyer) back if you a buy home. If u are older like me and have a
home get a reverse mortgage. Every where you look there is opportunity
and

the only thing standing in your way is you.

Get over yourself this is a new day and the old yolk has been cast
aside, adapt to the new reality and you will write me some day and say
losing my job was the greatest thing ever happened to me. Anyway I
hope I can help just one person and hopefully that is you.
I won't feel bad if you say this is a bunch of crap. That is part of
getting better. And I sincerely hope you do get better. Just don't
take any shortcuts take your medicine and i guarantee you will live to
see a much better future.
As Ever I remain
Dana Lee Kimball
Namaste
Jambo Sana

Now folks join in lets hear your thoughs and some help for those of you out there dying.

Forgive me for using the bible for some of my quotes but there is great wisdom in Buddhism and many other religions

What we need is protection from extremes in any religion. What I call the "chicken littles" of the world who can't think for themselves and take one little gem and try and cram everybody into it. Our genius as a race is we try everything now lets try and join together and make things happen.