I’m about to put my money where my mouth is on this one. (More on that later.) But in the meantime, Mark Morford asks if it’s "time to quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment:"
We are designed, weaned, trained from Day 1 to be productive members of society. And we are heavily guilted into believing that must involve some sort of droning repetitive pod-like dress-coded work for a larger corporate cause, a consumerist mechanism, a nice happy conglomerate. But the truth is, God, the divine true spirit loves nothing more than to see you unhinge and take risk and invite regular, messy, dangerous upheaval. This is exactly the energy that thwarts the demons of stagnation and conservative rot and violent sanctimonious bloody Mel Gibson-y religion, one that would have all our work be aimed at continuously patching up our incessant potholes of ugly congenital guilt, as opposed to contributing to the ongoing orgiastic evolution of spirit. (emphasis mine)
That’s the closest I’ve come to reading a vibrant, liberal, theology of work in a long time, and that from a newpaper columnist. Anybody up for an "ongoing orgiastic evolution of spirit?" I’ll bring the beer…
Man, it’s time to quit my safe job too. I’m working round to it, bit by bit. Trying not to do anything drastic. But all this security is numbing.
As long as it pays all the bills and allows a maximum contribution to my 401(k), I’m all for an ongoing orgiastic evolution of spirit.
But all the social scientists agree, there are both clear, evident and hidden prices for breaking up any rule, and we are all sunconciously trained to reward or puinish each other based on those values, do u guys really beleive you can keep any jobs like this? If so, how? My experiences with giving people a peice of my mind, even through silent actions, and even in the direction of the whole groups favours, have left me with the label, “the unemployable”. I mean thats how, my even very educated and spiritually aware environment have reacted in general, in reality. Please teach me :-)
Samia,
What first springs to mind is that you have to choose your battles. And go in with allies.