ZetaTalk: Being Human

ZetaTalk: Career Choices

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ZetaTalk: Career Choices

Note: written on Jun 15, 1996

Lifelong endeavors, contrary to the usual assumption, are not typically career choices. Humankind, struggling to

survive in most places, is forced into activities by either their physical location, their sex, or their native abilities.

Primitive groups hunting and gathering left the females out of the hunting party so as not to distract the males.

Physical strength in farming communities presses the young men into service, using their bodies, not their minds.

Young women likely to become pregnant are pressed into activities that pregnant women can handle, in anticipation of

their future state. Leadership falls to tall, large men almost invariably, as tradition has established them as the winners in physical contests, precursors to the verbal politics of today. Thus, most humans do not choose their occupations, they make the best of what they are presented with.

However, where a leisure class has developed or industrialization has provided food without the constant necessity to

farm, choice is possible. Choice usually runs into tradition, with tradition winning, and this is much played out in the

media. Given that an individual is indeed free to make a choice, is not required to take the best paying possibility in

order to support dependents or is not threatened with loss of family or community support if they make an independent

choice, then another drama ensues. Depending on their orientation, Service-to-Self or Service-to-Other, they will

choose in the following manner.

If leaning toward Service-to-Self, the individual will seek a position that gives them power and control over

others. This may be disguised as serving others, as for instance joining the religious elite may be disguised as

saving souls, but in fact is an opportunity to dominate others while intruding into their personal lives, a power

trip. They will seek positions of power where few can resist, such as teaching the young in a military school, or

acting as warden over a prison colony. Power and the desire to control others will take precedence over wealth

and comfort, but this is the second priority.

If leaning toward Service-to-Others, the individual will ponder what the needs of those around them are, and

how their talents might best serve. Since those in the Service-to-Others are not without self interest, the

occupational choice will undoubtedly include those activities that the individual enjoys. This is not a conflict of

interest but a merging of interests, a win-win situation. Where there is a conflict, due to strong need in the

community, the budding Service-to-Others individual will sacrifice his comfort and enjoyment, becoming the

one to repair the sewer mains to prevent infection in the community if no one else is filling this need, for

instance. Meeting the needs of the community takes precedence, where a choice is to be made.

If of a mixed orientation, undecided, the spiritually immature individual will tend to focus on comforts and

status, seeking lucrative occupations with lots of leisure time and where one can be on center stage getting

applause. If the choice happens to give the individual control over others, they scarcely notice except that this

may allows them to foist work onto others and increase their leisure time. If the choice happens to allow the

individual to help the community, they are happy to take bows and applause, and may even seek such activity

for this reason alone. However, the priority is to enjoy life and avoid discomfort.

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ZetaTalk: Status Symbols

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ZetaTalk: Status Symbols

Note: written on Oct 15, 1995

Human society, as most 3rd Density societies, is rift with status symbols - big cars, big houses, titles after the name,

designer clothing, the right neighborhood, membership in elite groups, and name recognition. For many, the status

symbol looms more important that any underlying meaning, because the status symbol represents power.

Those with money have more power than those without, almost invariably, as money can buy cooperation. Thus,

most status symbols denote money. Where it is difficult to put on the facade of big money without the actual

prop, those masquerading as well-to-do manage to do so surprisingly well on occasion by dressing well, acting

arrogant, and getting others to foot the bill. This is usually a short run affair, with the perpetrator remaining on

as a pet of the wealthy only happening in the movies. The perpetrator is almost without exception resented for

crashing the gates and prosecuted.

Those with membership in elite, exclusive groups have more power than those without, as the membership

cooperates with each other, doing favors, and thus each member has a larger reach. Thus, those with such

memberships almost invariably advertise them in any introduction or brief biography they provide. Rarely are

those without actual memberships able to assume this facade. This is not due to any difficulty in making up

counterfeit certificates or cards, but due to the clubby way members communicate with each other. Phone calls