Adulation

I was thinking about this tonight and realizing it was keeping me from going to sleep so I decided to get up and write about this to get it off my mind.

My older daughter's boyfriend was telling me about how he was employee of the month where he works even though he says they are working way too hard with not enough employees. He seemed proud of this as he is a very hard worker.

I thought back on my life and my experience was always different from this. Working for my Dad in his Electrical Contracting business was always fun. Working in my own businesses was almost always fun for me.

However, working for other people I always found dissatisfying at least financially. So, I wasn't happy working for most of the people I worked for before I started owning my own businesses.

I thought about why this was:

Here are the reasons:

Employers don't want someone more intelligent than they are or who is a free thinking independent self starter because then they have to start worrying about their jobs too.

So, since I was always very independent and a self starter and not just someone obedient all the time I had a different experience than people who are raised to be slaves and to always take orders. I wouldn't have done well in the military either unless I was an officer at a high level. And even then I don't think they really want Entrepreneurs in the military which is what I always naturally was.

The one exception to this was in regard to the women in my life from ages 15 to 25 when I settled down with my first wife and got married and had a son. I found women generally loved me because I was tall and handsome and always listened to their problems and was always helpful to them.

I always really loved women genuinely. Many men want women but actually hate them. However, I always saw them as naturally superior to men.

I have always seen men as assholes and God help me I am one of them.

Although, it should be said here that men are assholes for a reason. After they are 18 to 20 to 22 or 25 no one is going to take care of them like a woman might be cared for the rest of her life.

A man knows it's all on him sink or swim until he dies in the streets or of old age. It is actually incredibly horrific to grow up and become a man and have so very much expected of you: to die in battle willingly and gratefully and dutifully protecting your family and friends: finding a way forward when no one else can even though it kills you in the end.

A man knows if he winds up on the streets it is over for him if he can't find a way back to a job or his own business. He knows he might die on the streets alone in a cardboard box in an alley with a knife in his back from someone really crazy.

So, unless a man is smart enough and crafty enough he knows he might have to kill himself directly or indirectly at any given moment for any good reason.

Life is tough. It always has been.

So, this is why men are assholes.

There are no second chances for a man unless the man makes his second chances himself by being resourceful like a fox.

So, you have to be really intelligent and compassionate and helpful and wise to survive to old age if you are a man.

Otherwise, you are usually dead by 25 or 30 or at the most 40.

So much for adulation. Survival is better and so is having a family and friends and a business or a job.