Headers Already Sent

As I write this I’ve just got home from my final day at Sun. It’s hard to believe 13 months have gone by so fast and it’s safe to say I’m really going to miss all the people there over in Camberley. However, two things I won’t be missing are the £300 / month fuel bill and the 150 mile round commute 3 days a week! Hopefully in the not too distant future I’ll get to go back and see some of my friends again, possibly post graduation when I’m after a job.

It’s been a good day. We went out for a meal at lunchtime as a department to commemorate my departure, I got a few nice cards, played some pool and my boss gave me a £20 Amazon voucher which I’m probably going to pick up Animal Farm with.

I’ve now got an easier month ahead of me with university starting at the end of it. In between now and then I’m doing a little work with the webteam on the Canterbury campus and steadily increasing my alcohol intake so I’m fit for freshers week. I’ll probably try and swat up on some course material whilst I’m still enthusiastic. I’ve already started reading a book by David Butler, one of the Kent business lecturers, called “Enterprise planning and development” which is really interesting.

Onward and upward!

I’ve been reading a book I found on Aaron’s shelf this weekend. It’s called “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and it’s a quasi-fictional account of a boy growing up in Hawaii and getting taught tough lessons about money.

I can see why the book is a bestseller. The personal story combined with the straight up way it’s written makes for compelling reading. However, it doesn’t seem to leave a lot for the average joe to take home, and I guess that’s the point.

From what I’ve read it seems that unless you own the means of production like real estate or other businesses then you’re forever going to be a wage slave, stuck in the rat race. He makes the point quite early on that you can be a very well paid rat, but you’re still stuck being driven by two very strong human emotions: greed and fear.

I still haven’t finished the book yet, but overall I’ve found it to be a very interesting read and one definitely worth checking out.

UPDATE

I finished the book and while the start was coherent and informative, I felt it really trailed off towards the end. It seemed quite repetitive and I got the feeling the author couldn’t really be bothered to finish it. Plus there was a terribly cheesy bit about giving to charity thrown in for good measure. Either that or I was rereading pages as 2am approached.

Really great stuff here from Adyashanti…

I’m spending this weekend at Shazz and Aaron’s flat working on an exciting new project which is starting to look pretty sexy. It’s tiring and Shazz is quite the slave driver, but I get to see him in his cool new hat.

As you can see from the pictures we’ve got a pretty good makeshift HQ going on!

I’ll post more details about the project soon, hopefully there will be something interesting to report!