Everybody is a Genius, but.....

Evening, my Sunday lovelies.

We're here again, Sunday evening, full of wonderment and anticipation because the best week of our lives so far starts in only 4 hours! Yeah it does...

It has been a darn fine weekend actually, just the ticket after a decidedly unproductive and challenging latter half of the working week. Taking Friday off has left me with a lot of catching up to do tomorrow. Something that has hit me hard is that when you work for yourself, every day you take off as 'holiday' is actually just a way of creating work for the following day/week, or simply losing a days worth of revenue generation. The sooner I expand massively, so I'm just a part-time CEO with a ridiculous benefits package irrespective of my performance, the better. I've decided that I’m going to take 14 weeks holidays like teachers, pay a final salary pension like most civil servants, make it nigh on impossible to be given disciplinaries for under performance like just about any public sector job and a bonus scheme that ensures I at least double my salary even when I sack myself for losing money, like half the bankers. Obviously, I'll need to bung my local MP a couple of quid too, so when I drive around tanked up on vintage champagne I won't get breathalysed. After all, drink driving on expensive champagne isn't the same as DUI after a downing Tesco carrier bag full of Natch, that's just reprehensible behaviour!

In all seriousness though, it's quite a reality check to think about benefits and security. I've not had a pension or PMI since 2005. I've not enjoyed any kind of benefit for yonks and now I've started a role that I can't even take a day off from without sacrificing my salary. I suppose the theory is that I won't need a pension because I'll make my fortune and I won't need PMI because I've already spend more time in hospital than anyone normally does in a whole lifetime. I won't even get any Paternity pay when we have the twins, I must be off my rocker...

Or, I must be convinced that this is the right time for me to go it alone. Leave behind the shackles of employment and conformity and embrace the freedom of complete autonomy and responsibility. One thing you need to be able to shoulder when you’re rolling it alone is responsibility. It’s no good pointing your finger because the only place you can point it is in the mirror. Of course, when it all falls into place and the deals drop, there’s no-one else taking all the glory either, no-one else sharing the spoils. This, I like. This is why I want to see how far I can take these projects on my own. There’s no question I have the ability to make a tidy living and maintain myself as a positive force whilst doing so. The doubt is within my application and focus. It’s always been the same, ever since I was a tiny little boy. My school reports pretty much all said the same; Grade A, Effort D; Jeremy seems to think that he can just cruise through life and it’ll remain as easy as he’s finding it now. He’s going to have to buckle down. He’s a distraction to himself and those around him. What are you feeding him, he won’t sit still? I have no idea how he made this grade, he didn’t do any work all year in my class. He seems incapable of concentrating on anything for more than 5 minutes. I fear for Jeremy, he simply doesn’t function in the manner to which we must become accustomed. Etc…

Well, sod you teachers, I’m going to have a cushty benefits package like you guys soon enough. And I’m going to do it all by myself despite what you all said about me never amounting to anything. Maybe you should have learned the art of extracting the best from people like me, rather than chastising us and trying to suppress our individuality. Social Conditioning is ruining our individuality and the filthy Tory national curriculum is poisoning our children’s minds. The education system failed me, and it’s failing our children now more so that it was 30 years ago. So, sod ya, us individuals are off to learn our own lyrics, teach each other how to behave and try to enjoy our freedom.

Everybody is a Genius, but if you judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. Either that, or make it a lifelong mission to try and disprove the system that said that climbing trees is more important than swimming freely….

One Love

Jez

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