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Sell! Sell! Sell! The markets are crashing!

Oh.

 *That was yesterday...*

Rainy, sunny, rainy, sunny, rainy, rainy, rainy.... sunny?


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Facing the unlikely, but possible prospect of not being able to earn as I have though my official work, I have to consider other sources of income. Thankfully, I do have options. Unfortunately, many of them need crypto earnings to supplement, like stacking shelves at the supermarket.

Sure, that might be a last resort and I will likely have some options before that, but at least for me, it is interesting to think about what kinds of options might be available. In a country where I don't speak the language well enough to work professionally in it, nor do I have my master's in a specialized field, jobs that pay well are somewhat rare, which is why I started my business in the first place. 

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Funnily, I got my second job to add some more security, as being self-employed doesn't come with a lot of perks and the income can be very up and down - but rarely great. Plus, it is always one step away from  being unemployed and I haven't been that in a very long time and don't plan on being it anytime soon. 

But as I have said before, I don't really mind what kind of work I do in order to pay the bills, but ultimately, I would like to pick and choose my work on what I consider important. What is interesting in this regard is that they keep pushing the age of retirement up and up, as the population keeps aging and they keep borrowing more debt on the future, debt that has to be paid back by those to come. I have approximately 25 years left until I can retire, but if things keep going the way they are, that might be 35 years and I will be nearing eighty.

But, what kinds of jobs are going to be available for people at that age?

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Not much I suspect, but I assume that things are going to change markedly in that time and while there is the potential for a great deal of improvement, there is also room for a lot of degradation. I reckon that there is going to be a lot more rain before any lengthy period of sunshine, but perhaps that is always the case. 

Even now when the world is falling into an economic abyss, it definitely isn't a problem for everyone. The problem is, that it is only a sliver minority that are truly benefiting at this time and it will get increasingly worse the longer it continues along this tract. If however a new economy can be built to replace what is currently on offer, perhaps there could be a shift in the way we organize ourselves so that more can benefit.

There is no security in this world, all that is available is risk management. The biggest risk is perhaps sitting back and taking the approach that everything will work out for the best, because that is not really the way it goes. Or at least, if everything works out for the best, it simultaneously works out for the worst. Nature doesn't have a preference of which, making everything a zero point. 

>Starting from zero.

I think that we have all felt like we have done that at least once in our lives and probably, multiple times. During these periods, we consider how we got here, where we want to be and how we are going to get there. Some people spin out of control and are unable to find a direction to travel, some people move with intense purpose - but all of us go through these similar experiences, feel similar feelings and have similar fears. How we handle our experiences can change a lot though. 

For me, I am definitely not in the worst condition I could be, considering that I could literally be dead or worse, a vegetable in a wheelchair. This means that I have more options than the zero of death and more than the near zero of complete incapacitation. So, there is hope. The outcome might not be ideal, but neither were the events that led to them, because nothing is ever ideal - it just is what it is. 

Over the coming months I am going to have to do a lot of work to get myself back on track toward being where I want to be in just about every facet of my life, but I have to be prepared for the inevitable failures along the way. I am glad though that because of what I have done in the last years, I can rest a little easier that at least if the traditional streams fail, I have a small safety net and trickles to help me get through and find my feet again. If this had happened a half dozen years ago, it would have been a very different journey. 

They say, "when in doubt, zoom out" in regards to the crypto markets, but this is what we should more often do in our lives also, rather than get caught up in the day to day "news" of experience. There is so much noise these days and so much FUD injected into our eyeline, that if we aren't careful, our direction is lead by where we don't want to end up, instead of where we want to be.

Some want to be rich, some happy, some in love and a thousand other things - but what are we each doing to get there, or are we hoping that we will end up there without doing anything with intention at all?

It doesn't matter what the markets are doing. 
It does matter what we are doing.   

Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]


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