THE THIRD BLOG - AND I'M WRITING IT FROM STARBUCKS.
Yes. I'm in Starbucks. Loving my Chai Tea Latte after working a day in event management. Any one looking in might see this as successful, pah! 'Event management' in this case would be working in a shopping centre in Ipswich helping kids make Halloween masks. Far from a glamorous idea of mixing with to-do people in trendy settings and paying a Jazz band to play quietly in a corner.
Success is a funny one. If you visualise your successes by your ability to climb the same ladder as everyone else, you're going to have a tough time. Yes, I stole the quote from Einstein, but I think more people should dwell on it for just that second longer. I've always struggled with ladders, third or fourth step and I'm done - give me a cherry picker or lift, education, maybe I'll get further, but at the end of the day I still don't want to be up that high. So let's say that actually, success is a scary thing, to be high flying up there in the clouds, on top of a castle, but all you can think about is how far you can fall, because all the other people daring enough to climb that high just want to push people off. Well, like I said, I've not climbed that high to find out, but the way everyone says 'big jobs are scary and everyone hates you because of them' kind of puts it in that light.
Recently, Russel Brand said in an interview that 'Profit' is a dirty word. In context, he was saying how the difference between the mega rich and the working man was criminal. This interview has been met with a widespread, idyllic, agreement and has been put under the heading of 'social revolution'. Most people would say that profit or earnings are the clearest way to define success. In this case, success becomes not about a high rolling bank balance, because that would be embarrassing but also an annoying chore of the tax man taking a particular interest in how many schools you personally fund. The easy answer is that not all success is or has to be monetary, but it's not going to get you into the David Lloyd gyms either. Say your day job is being that hero in Tesco, happy enough to work for nothing, long hours that make no sense, but you also coach a football team in a Sunday league. You don't spend your week dreaming about how one day you could be a line manager, and earn enough to move into the nice part of town, your meaning is found elsewhere.
The problem is that this ideal of everyone earning nearly the same because otherwise it's unfair, doesn't actually mean that suddenly everyone has as much money a city banker, what would be the point if it's nothing to do with money anyway? My favourite thought isn't actually anything to do with the blog - it's more to do with an educated iFacebook generation that suddenly realised that they could shout loudly enough at they're 600 friends and followers that they haven't got a job as a high earning business person in a creative industry. Something that if they did have, would quickly make them less noisy about a social revolution and that all their money should go into Taxes and be given to their unemployed colleagues. At least until they're on a comfortable enough lifestyle to safely afford it, enter Russel Brand.
Nice little left wing rant to go with my non tax paying Starbucks. #Revolution