THE "I AM TOO GOOD FOR THIS JOB" COMPLEX

At the age of thirty-three Mark Twain defined his life as "a foolish life made up of apprenticeships." In a day and age like today where nobody holds a job for longer than a few years, is that something that defines the era of 2000 - 2013? And before "Little Sam" was born, his father, John Clemens, spent the majority of his life searching for steady good paying work. He moved from place to place, working as a shop keeper, a lawyer, land owner, slave owner, handyman, judge, and other occupations that offered the possibility of earning a living a gentleman would be proud of but his lack of business skills and lack of charisma in his wake a list of failures. Can you relate? Are you one of those people who just keeps bouncing from job to job to job to job and you always view the position you currently hold just a job but nothing you will stay in long term because you are better than that. You are too good to be a cashier or a barista or a street sweeper or a fry cook. It is just TEMPORARY so therefore it isn't a career. You don't want to work until you move up to the next position and gradually work your way up through the levels of the company into management because you don't like that industry. Other industries are more appealing and you are too smart for your present industry and job. You are only living in the future because that is where the BMW or the Mercedes Benz and the Palm Tree Vacations are and currently you can barely scrape by on Thai Pad noodles or fish sticks from a bag after your awful shift as a cashier getting cursed out by some overweight schmuck with a mole. You went to college and this is the crap your stuck doing? All that money, all that time and this is where you are? This isn't the way life was supposed to turn out, you were supposed to be one of the lucky ones who landed the killer job or had the sweet family connection. But for the majority of you out there that is not the way it really is, THIS, here and now is the way it really is and you better get with the program before life passes you by. Things aren't going to magically happen and one day you will wake up lying on a bed of goose feathers with some half naked 21-year old with flowing blond hair feeding you grapes and roasted pheasant with plum sauce. If you are going to make anything of yourself you are going to have to dig it out of the rock hard ground with bloody fingertips and all the while you will have rotten scum bags standing around poking you and throwing pebbles and insults at you, all the while trying to steal every little bit that you work so hard to get. That is the reality for most of us out there. There is no pretty golden brick road leading us to some rose colored Oz. Find something that you think is half way interesting, get a low-level position because that is all you are worth at that point, get over yourself, not to mention it is the only position that will be offered to you and work your little bum off like a starving farmer. Make daily goals with the sole purpose of moving up within that company. Learn everything about the business you are presently working in regardless of how novice you may think it is, but rest assure it is important to someone. It must be important because the CEO is rolling in the bill folds because of the shit work and lousy hours you are suffering through. The wretched people you have to put up with on a daily basis, threatening you, complaining, arguing, cursing you and telling you you aren't even qualified to clean chamber pots let alone do the crap work you are doing. But many of those CEOs were once like you, scraping out a living by the skin of their teeth, wondering what tomorrow was going to bring. But the difference between them and you is that they had a vision, determination, and guts and they stuck with it, moved up the ladder knowing it was going to take 20-25 years and landed on the top. That can be you too if you can get off your illusion and dive into the frizzle.