Friday, October 7, 2011

BloggeRhythms 10/7/2011

Now that union members are joining the Wall Street protest, I gave the issue some more thought. And the first thing that struck me was, how come these union folks have all that time to march? Shouldn't they be at work? Which, I guess, proves the point that most union members under-work, are overpaid and significant numbers of them serve no useful purpose at all. Because it sure doesn't look like their employers are looking for them and don't likely know they're gone.

The next thought I had was, the focus is always on the hard core number of unemployed which has remained around nine percent. And while I agree that it seems high, there's still another question; If nine percent of the work force is idle it also means that 91% have jobs. So, who should really be studied?: the small group that have no jobs or the huge majority that do? And how come nine out of ten folks can find work, but this other group can't?

So, this leads me to reach the same conclusion I have for as long as I can remember. There are folks who accept responsibility and do whatever's needed to accomplish their goals without any fanfare or noise, they just suck in their gut, march straight ahead and produce. Then there others who look for the easiest way out, point fingers at everyone else, doing nothing much else but complain, whine, and moan, expecting someone else to solve their self-made problems. And those are the one's who do their best to drag everyone else down with them. So that means the difference between success and failure is quite often a matter of choice, not simply circumstance.

And that reminds me of something that goes all the way back to grade school.

Fairly often, in really hard courses, there were very difficult tests in which most of the students got low grades. Primarily, I believe, due to the fact that the majority had other interests than really hitting the books. Nonetheless, there was always one kid or another whose grade was perfect, or close. And the way the teachers fixed the low grade problem was to score on a curve, raising everyone's grade proportionally, which was far better for them than flunking almost an entire class.

Now, although adjusting scores and averaging results tended to level the playing field, and certainly made the kids feel better: What about the one or two who aced the tests? They sat in the same classes, they did the same homework and the took the exact same tests. So, how come they did so much better than everyone else?

Perhaps they were intellectually gifted, or had some kind of special test-taking knack, or maybe they planned to enter that particular field of study and were on their way to becoming experts. But, more often than not it came down to the simple fact that they studied much more than everyone else and tried harder.

So, what all of this means to me is, that although its always easier to blame others for one's plight and misery surely does love company, it's hard to believe folks who say something can't be done (like finding a job) when 91% of the others prove day in and day out that it's simply not true.

That's it for today folks.

Adios

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