Solution to a more personal life in software and other careers Part 1

I have discussed a lot about the problems and details of the issues those problems result in this counter productive life we live in more non-personal tasks instead of personal tasks. This is going to be a brief topic that I will discuss today which can go into more detail later on. Each topic cannot advance to the next topic before the precedent topic is fulfilled.

The first thing you should do is to make your living income be of your general needs, that includes BOTH the personal and non-personal. When people think about making up your life with your general needs, people think only about the food they eat and the rent they space out to sleep in their night. That is what even the government thinks on what the minimum income level of an individual should be (only to satisfy the personal, not the non-personal). For that reason, working yourself on a supermarket or retail store that only gives you the minimum to live yourself out will not be enough. In that position, you will need to either make sacrifices or do very intelligent plans and a lot of luck to save most out of your living. An alternative is creating passive money. A lot of blame comes to the perception of governments and companies on how much money an individual should take. When they calculate the budget, they only consider the non-personal events of the individual, not the personal that the individual also needs. For low paying jobs like that, that is a serious problem. Those big corporations and governments that are to be taken as an example, show a bad example. However, it is not their fault, at least they are not the main ones that throw this effect (but the culture they incorporate, it does). The critical issue is this: It is the perception of the people themselves, how the people themselves are fooling themselves how the demand and supply system works. They think on their perception that only the non-personal is what they need, so they are willing to take the plunge of paying a rent that is so expensive that they can live without their personal life. Thanks to the people that have not a lot of critical thinking, their forces of supply and demand which only oriented to the non-personal made most of our living to be of non-personal nature, especially for those with low paying jobs (which the majority of people are, such as working in retail stores). The main point to get out of this is that you will need some extra money to fulfil your personal life. When I said on my previous post "If I had a billion dollars..how to make a living", this is what I meant: Enough that not only satisfies your non-personal things in life, but also the personal things in life too. That means do not spend all your money on non-personal things. Which comes to the second topic.

The second thing you have to do in order to open your personal life is to save money. Most people not only have no money in their bank, but they have accumulated so much debt through their credit cards. Even if they have perfect credit scores, its a matter of a laughable topic, cause you are more worse than the person with the lowest credit score that has no credit cards. Just imagine who has the most freedom? The individual with no credit cards and zero debt of course. The individual who has credit card debt will have less freedom not because he really does not, but because he wants to keep his credit scores high enough. If you have credit cards and all have no debt inside, that is a different topic. But for those who do, it just does not justify the reason to have them unless you had or used them for an emergency (which can happen unfortunately as people ignore the personal with the so much obsession we have with the non-personal world). The limit you can reach with the sum of credit cards on average is $25,000, maybe $50,000 or more if you are almost a tycoon individual. I think people can easily wrap up $25,000 in saving in 2-3 years, but that is a different topic. So not only should you have no debts that give you or make you feel you have restriction in society, but also to have enough savings so you can do your personal things in life. And when I mean doing your personal things in life, I mean to spend it with time instead with objects. Which comes to the next topic.

The third thing is to use your savings to take time off around 20% or even more of your working hours on the job as unpaid. Why? Well, obviously. You cannot change society directly itself to see the option of people requiring to fulfil their personal life. As it is now, it is impossible for the workforce to integrate them as they do "not see any problems from the individuals itself" (most likely the individuals hide it, suppress it, and show those symptom effects of point 4 discussed in my previous blog posts). Okay, for low paying jobs, this is not a problem to do, because after all, they pay the minimum (but hey, this is changing now that unemployment is high, even a minimum paying job is lucrative). However, for high paying jobs, it is another story. You are so responsible and critical to the organization that it is very hard to take time off even as unpaid, and many do not, because guess what? They did not did the second thing which is to save money. People have a lot of problems with their personal life. It can be health related issues, learn more of their own psychology of life, learn more things in general than what your specialized job does to be more integral to society, relationship issues, family issues, and so on. Those cannot be solved within hours or once every month. They may require a lot of appointments and a lot of days to be spent on, so do not care whether that time off will be paid or not paid. Take it as unpaid and use your own money and especially time with your personal things. The main issue is that most people will not do that because of the norms and the working environment attitude effects. If you do that, peoples' attitude will be more non-personal on the working environment. They may even fire you. Hell, there are so many people psyched to be non-personal, to sacrifice their flesh and blood to an organization, that you may be left out and be in misery. That gives us a dead end. If society does not push the supply and demand chart to include the personal things in life, you cannot go against that tide all alone by yourself. The correct thing to do is that if that organization restricts your personal life, shows an attitude that does not respect the personal time of your personal life, it is better to leave it and try to find on your free time another job with a better environment to fulfil this third goal (you do not want to spend your rest of your half life in the most non-personal way, it will destroy you). Do not focus on responsibilities, experience, money, but an agreement to spend more of your money for your personal life. Those other perks are more to lock you in a non-personal secluded life while the perk they don't give is the one that will flourish your integrity for the person that is inside you that you have ignored so much. However, always have some patience with the attitude of an organization you are working for, because it is usually their perceptions that are wrong and not that they do not want to help the well being of society.

Conclusion and the Transformation: A lot of people just really have to understand the importance of the personal life before it is too late and take them apart. They should incorporate it in the supply and demand chart (because that chart is not what capitalist say as what it represents (it is not money), but money and perceptions). The first step is for your income to be of your standard needs of living with both your personal and non-personal life (the income depends on what country you live). Most people perception include only the non-personal life.  In other words, most people sacrifice too much. The second thing is to save that money for your personal needs. Do not spend all that money on non-personal needs. Investing it on passive money or for your personal needs is the most critical thing to do (if you do not have any much personal life events then there will be a lot in the future, so investing it in passive money is not bad. Passive money though needs a lot of investment of time and dedication, something that is hard if you have a full time job). The third thing is to take out time of your job to do your personal things in life. It is evident that this split will and remain to exist as long people do not complain. However, it will be different if people try to change their perceptions on that type of working market. The working environment will evidently look at the account of that. It will be opposing at first on the forces of that working market. However, over time, they will see that these people will perform and feel better about their job. They will see that these people will think more critically to do what is best and not to do irrational behaviour due to their suppression of feelings.They will see the difference between the people who work with goals that are only non-personal between the people who work with goals that include the personal in their life and they will see better results for the working environment on the latter. They will then try to find a way to integrate on the working environment the non-personal and personal tasks in the life of each employee. This is a hard task to do because a lot of people are so attached and stuck with the non-personal tasks in life, it requires them to teach critical thinking in terms of the personal and not about how to make money (which is the only think we teach in critical thinking these days to people, on how to make money). In contrast, what we see in society these days is do the opposite. Encourage critical thinking on the money and the clients instead of the personal life of the individual. These will just bring the ultimate destruction or mostly dissatisfied experience of the individual (along with his relatives and his family).