Surely you don't think that most people who build a successful career spanning decades just got lucky, or, even worse, are successful because they sold out to da man or are corrupt in some way.
Kathryn, I've spent too much of my young life trying to figure out what successful means... that being said... I don't think
most people who built a successful career spanning decades
just got lucky or sold out. I also don't think
most people built a successful on
just luck, corruption, family ties, kissing ***, etc. etc., as if those things excluded hard work or smart decisions etc. It's a strong unquantifiable mixture... I guess. Since we are getting all anecdotal, most of the jobs I have encountered, all people have such intricate and strange stories. Workplaces can be so extremely diverse... in solely just a human to human level. I don't know, I'm learning day to day; and I am a factotum, in a sense, as I prefer self-endeavors and new experiences as opposed to constant environments. Maybe I see a difference success in some ways?
I wish I could better articulate myself. I often find myself failing at doing so. But I'm trying hard to communicate effectively and truthfully take in what others are saying. I just don't think the whole of any mass of people, say over like... 5, can really be described in one sentence. There is just too much really going on for every single being to narrow down to just specific traits based on arbitrary relationships tied in by the associated of their labels. Everyone I've met and have gotten the chance to get a bit of information about their labor situation seem to encounter hard work, smart/bad decisions, luck/achievement, family tie/truly being valued for ability, and so much other stuff I can't succinctly describe.
Perhaps our work experiences allow different routes to know different people.. I really don't know are care anymore. I don't even know why bother replying to anyone in these topics. There is automatic antagonism with replies, comments barely relevant to what people talk about, a nearly-complete disregard for open-dialogue, a haste to label thousands of people by the actions of one (or to associate anyone with the easiest and most proliferate evil at hand, solely to disregard a debate or discussion as pointless)... and oh my dear lord, the list continues, I wouldn't even really know where to start or finish. I understand that most people on this forum have real lives and can't spend time to address anything.. I mean, hell, it takes me 2 hours to write a sincere post, and about another 2 hours if I want to revise it, edit it, reformat it that all words are empathic and follow thoroughly to their meaning, a task even more difficult with a crowd that is from around the world. But ****, is there really a day where not one of us can find out really quickly just how inefficient we are at describing entire social movements and current events within the few moments we take to visit an online forum?
I'm not talking about you, Kath. We disagree on a million things, but at least you take some effort to reply and read what people say...
I can't think of how to add to this post anymore at the moment. Not like many will bother to take it past face value anyways.