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Its too hard to do anything honestly these days.

I live in Canada. It does not matter what you want to do… you will need a peice of paper saying that you can do it. Every tiny little aspect of our lives are monitored and regulated to the smallest detail.

Any job worth doing requires half a decade of post-secondary schooling and even if you have all the necessary skills there is a good chance you may not get the job unless you are bilingual to boot.

My grandparent always tell me how simple things are but I don’t think that they realize what they and their children have done to this country. For example, my grandfather on the one side used to work as a heavy equipment operator when he was a younger man and he made good money doing it. For him it was as simple as applying for the job and them saying hop on the beast and get to work.

These days to operate heavy equipment you need a cornucopia of certificates hanging off the metal walls of your machine before you are authorized to slip the key into the ignition. I am not saying that this is what I want to do but its just an example of the problem.

My grandmother on the other side tells me about how my grandfather got a job with the a large corporation in Canada after WWII and worked his way up from a sales position to be the manager of all Northern Canada. Things don’t really work like that anymore. To get a job like that you would have to have a university degree in business or logistics.

Its so much trouble to do anything that one wonders why we even bother. We are manufactured to fit a slot. That is really what it amounts to. You are bred for a specific job and thats pretty much going to be your lot in life unless you are willing to start all over again.

By the time we are done university we are brainwashed tools and saddled with $80000 in debt. What if you wanted to do something specific and then it didn’t work out? Then you just wasted half a decade and you have to start over.

The worst part is that many of the occupations that people are training for could be done just as well by a person of sound judgment with common sense and intelligence.

Sometimes a life of crime looks pretty appealing. If you can figure out a good scam or make a big enough heist and find a way to launder your money and get it somewhere safe even if you get caught its only a few years in jail. If a guy could tuck away a few million gatting caught isn’t all that bad. You could spend 5 years in jail and still come out ahead compared to the salary you would have made slaving in an honest fashion.

Modern life in this country is frustrating.

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