I'm convinced there is something deeply wrong with most people today. They are bored, unfulfilled, and out of touch with reality. Their freedom relinquished for the security of a steady paycheck and a one hour or more commute to a dead end job. Their imagination and creativity anesthetized by television, online addiction and celebrity worship. With that they are bombarded with advertising and endorsements for products that in reality they don't need.
In this post World War II era of the rural electrification program. The federal government's road building programs, and the war on poverty campaign of the 1960's. We are now living in the so-called digital age of internet, GPS and smartphones.
With all the how to books and websites out there about survival, off grid, mobile living, and homesteading. For that segment of the population this blog has been written as a guide to help broaden their horizons and take that first step on the road to free and independent living.
Some folks have began to ask themselves these questions. Where is my money going?
Why do I have so many bills?
Why do I have to live here?
Do I really need all this stuff?
The answer is simple!
You don't need all those bills that go along with having the things that we think are necessary. That in reality are just holding us down. To be able to have all those things you will need to make money. Which means having to work at a job you don't like. All these things we think we can't live life without. We can do without.
So ask yourself these questions while your sitting in your office cubicle, or working that 12 hour day at the factory rushing to get that time card clocked. Or those of you that have any number of different types of jobs. And always seeing the money you make go down that drain called paying bills.
Why am I beholding to an employer that doesn't care about me?
Why do I have to work here?
Why do I have to live here?
Why do I have to spend all the money I make every time I get paid?
How can I get out of this endless circle of working, getting paid, handing my money to someone else?
Whether you want to believe it or not. You are dependent! You are a slave to the money economy! You are so dependent that you have to have physical money in order to purchase the things you think you have to have. So basically in order to get money you have to give yourself to an employer that really doesn't care about you. You sell your labor to them in order for them to pay you money. That in turn you hand over to pay bills and buy things you think you need.
An entire generation has grown up not knowing any other way to live. They live in a disposable throw it away, buy another one society. All they basically know is to trade dollars that they get working at a job for the things they've been taught since childhood they need, e.g. food, fuel, services, utilities, housing, rent, vehicle insurance, phone, internet and so on.
Is this really what you want out of life! Working at a boring job for wages. For an employer that doesn't care about you. Putting up with stupid supervisors, Backstabbing co-workers, and living from paycheck to paycheck. Or for some, living on a retirement pension or social security. Still, it's all the same. You take the money you work for at your dead end job, and trade it for things. Come on, that's not freedom, it's nothing but pure dependence.
By now, you should see where i'm going with this. In this blog I'm going to give you ideas on how to live free, off grid, and independent of the demands of today's societal norms without a job and very little money. Although I want you to know this. Unless you really want to live without some of today's conveniences, to live on your own terms, and to be as independent as possible. Then these ideas are not for you. Just stay with what your comfortable with. Working for that paycheck that evaporates a few days after you get it.
I see you have read this far. So I take it, I've got your attention. Whether you're interested in Homesteading or Mobile Living. I want you to know you have an alternative to the current life your living.
Just Go For It, A Life Of Travel Adventure Awaits!
~Chaz~
