Playing to Our Wishes
or
What I don't wish for
or
Gotta have my own space, kids
Interesting seeing the trend of advertising, mailings, spam, sales calls that we receive more often as of late
Get rich quick schemes
Free, no obligation government grants
Free literature on how to become like the "secret" society of powerful money managing, world-changing circles
Nothing's for Free as we all learn earlier on
through our "credit-worthy" years just out of college
"No", was my answer not long ago to somebody promissing a no-obligation
$30,000 grant from some federal agency,
I'd be damned if I was going to give them any account routing numbers
so they could make a direct "deposit"
Got a 10-page detailed letter describing details of literature
to receive information on how to learn the basic fundamentals of
becoming part of the "secret" powerful circles of money-makers
Although they wanted me to mail back my positive confirmation that
"Yes, send me your packet/s of informative materials on how I can
learn the secrets of the powers of the world's most...powerful people.
"But have to send it in by 1-29-05 to receive their secrets.
The mail only delivered this notice of 10-pages of rambling excuses to convince me to send my postive response, yesterday 1-27-05.
I can tell them, would like to write back to them in a 20-page
rambling sequence of my excuses that "NO, I don't care to receive
your list of tactics to become part of any SECRET circles of power.
I already know the essentials, proven fundamentals:
1. 'a penny saved a penny earned' - (I didn't spend a damn penny today, so I still have a penny in my account, meaning I saved a penny today!)
2. 'nothing's for free' - (Giving any access to my bank account, even
under the guise of it being a simple free deposit is a very hard cost potentially in the future to discover that I have no more pennies that
were saved at various times of saving pennies)
Also it's interesting to see the "appeal" of televsion reality
shows like "The Apprentice". Compete in "real-life" competitions
to run simple business ventures to impress a self-made billionaire
where the final winning contestant earns a high-dollar making job
working for that billionaire. Well, if these young emotionally charged and obviously inmature
individuals were already successful business people, why would
they take any vacations away from their businesses to compete on
what is essentially a TV game show. First of all, I wouldn't trust
any of these people to run any business if they're taking breaks
from their successful careers and clients, and I wouldn't trust
these emotionally charged people to cooperate in any fashion with
other businesses. I did learn some tricks, or I reinforced basic business fundamentals that all of these latest media-trends are playing towards us.
I saved my pennies, and I trust that my pennies that I've saved will
remain up to balance tomorrow because I didn't fall for any
get-rich free money grants...and I also realized that I did a service
to somebody else's economics by spending time watching the paid-for advertising segments of that really stupid TV show about a bunch of previously successful but presently incompetent business-managers squabble over minute personality conflicts, and fire each other from their competitive game-show positions. I don't wish to be manipulated through money-making schemes, nor do I wish to be manipulated by fear of losing any potential job offers. I don't wish to be teased by any of these grossly ridiculous schemes. I don't wish to run my life through the attraction of money. Got my basics, got my little pennies. I have all that I need. I also have learned to screen phone calls, throw away mail/email I'm not expecting, and have spam and pop-up blockers on my internet connections.
P.S. - Of course, out of suspicion, I wonder what schemes will come about when people have learned to get through screening of phone calls, pop-up and spam blocking. Nothing to fear, just annoying disturbances like a bunch of emotionally charged kids trying to make an impression. I suppose I am also learning to be a parent, even though I don't have any children, through all of this. I wish these "children" would stop making so much noise, go do their own homework, and stop asking me for everything. I wouldn't be the most giving of parents, I wouldn't be mean, but "gotta have my own space, kids."
