Hi, my name is …

What’s in a name? Nothing. Nothing at all. And if you learn a thing’s name, you lose all of its thing-ness, its splendor, its mystery. It is all a matter of perception. This is my chance to play philosopher. Bear with me, and we’ll explore together.

What is reality? Again, what we perceive is what reality is, at least for us. We call a daisy a daisy and a dandelion a dandelion.

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Ready, aim …

You’re in a low-paying job, have few prospects and know there’s more to you than that job. You want a profession, a career. You want to be recognized. You want to be somebody.

What do you do? You might become an expert. An expert in what you ask. It doesn’t matter. Pick any subject, any area, any activity. Any one single thing. What you pick doesn’t necessarily have to interest you now in a great way. In time, interest will grow. You will be absorbed by what ever it is. Yes, you will.

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Don’t end up like Milton!

This is a trick question, so speed-read the following two job descriptions? Which one of the two job descriptions is likely to become an obsolete/dead-end job?

The first job described below is from Toledoblade.com:

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Are you crying?!

The traditional boot camps for kids are being outlawed and disbanded due to a few reckless trainers who kicked a couple of kids to death. No more boot camps. However, there is a window of opportunity open for a new profession, a new career. The At-Home Boot Camp DI (Discipline Instructor). The visiting DI.

For the parents:

If there’s no longer a boot camp where you can send your kid, then, by Gawk, bring the boot camp to your kid’s home.

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Don’t run, it’s not safe!

In one of Kilgore Trout’s comments, he talks about childhood and growing up. “Most of the best parts of childhood have the line ‘I can’t believe no one got serious hurt.’ Children need time to be children, they need to experience life on their own … When do they get to just do the stupid things that kids do simply because they’re kids?”

Then from Cerebral: “I knew what it was like to just be a kid and care about nothing. We did shit just to have fun with no one to tell us ‘you can’t do that because it’s not safe.’ ”

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I am always looking out for ways to lower my stress levels. This is mainly due to the fact that the world is not as it should be. I don’t have to tell you what’s wrong with the world today. All you have to do is pick up a newspaper or listen to the evening news and you will quickly realize just how stressed out we all are in dealing with today’s realities. There are, to name a few, global terrorism, the war in Iraq, poverty, global genocide, global warming, energy dependence, high taxes, wage stagnation, eroding economic situation, political impotence and continuing decay of civil liberties and rights. Oh, and did I happen to mention an incompetent, nincompoop President? Mix all those together and you have a daily stress level that at times can seem to be unbearable. It certainly has caused me to consider moving to another country. I guess what galls me the most is having to pay taxes to a government that I simply don’t support anymore. So, what to do short of moving to an isolated Caribbean Island? Here are some quick stress solutions that may help you get through your day…

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