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CORPORATE AMERICA
HOW AND WHY YOU SHOULD BE YOUR OWN BOSS
by
Jason G. Breckenridge
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PUBLISHED BY:
Jason G. Breckenridge on Smashwords
#%@*!
CORPORATE AMERICA
HOW AND WHY YOU SHOULD BE YOUR OWN BOSS
Copyright © 2011 by Jason Breckenridge
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Foreword
I awoke from a horrible dream the other day. In this dream of mine, I was two people in one. One person was a character whose every decision was shaped by the world around him and subsequently everything he had been brainwashed to accept as reality. The other person lurked deep within this character, shy but untamed. Defined but formless, this person seems to ride with the flow however it is him who really controls the show. Let’s call the front guy Jason and shadowy powerful lil guy really pulling the strings, Top Gun.
So, in my dream, me, I mean Jason was a real nice guy. In his childhood he learned many things from his surroundings that would make him a model citizen. The fears oppressed upon him and his culture would push him to accept the social norms of the time period. Be nice, make good grades, respect others, don’t do drugs, go to church, find a hobby, graduate college, get a job, get married, have kids and work until you’re 59 1/2.
Boy was Jason on his way.. He worked in Corporate America as a Field Service Engineer, even travelled as far as South Korea with a green american express credit card. To all his friends and family, he had made it.. He averaged about $90,000 a year, had the pretty fiancée and was well on my to what everyone told him was the right thing to do.
Not so bad a dream right? Well, as it turns out, Top Gun was not very happy about the things materializing on the surface.. While the world was kissing Jason’s ass, Top Gun had begun to have violent reactions to the events in the “real” world and so, he sought to declare war on Jason, his own vehicle.
Top Gun, still seething from having to watch Jason relinquish his natural abilities and passions in exchange for entering the rat race that society portrays as the “way to go,” college degree and whatnot. Secretly knowing the whole time that Jason’s destiny would be far greater than what Corporate America could offer, he allowed this facade to continue, occasionally interjecting moments of his being through subtle clues Jason would fantasized about: Independence, Wealth, Entrepreneurship and becoming a gentleman of leisure.
Top Gun had to find a way to take over Jason. A way to infiltrate his thinking patterns and therefore his actions... He figured, his first task would be to separate him from everything that he was familiar with. As the zen masters teach, his cup had to be emptied before it could be ful-filled. Systematically, in any way possible, a guerilla warfare like approach, he used any and everything available to force him to rely on himself. It would be sink or swim.
This part of the dream was the most painful experience.. Top Gun succeeded in his plan and Jason was indeed all alone. The corporate job with the green amex, gone. The pretty fiancée, gone. The 401K, gone. Friends, gone. Big City H-Town living, gone. Family support, gone..And then I woke up...And the dream was my reality.
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Table of Contents
Intro
Corporate Pimpin’
A Lonely Game
Building the Stable
Do You Got It?
Gettin’ It
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