Countdown! Blast Off! - Emotionally Damaged by Job Burnout - A Havenot Speaks to the Haves - Open Memoir

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. 

(1 Tim 6:10)

I'm Ok - You're Not Ok

It's a simple question, how do the Haves get so much money? They Lie... They cheat... They manipulate...  And They Ignore...

Therefore They are Not Okay Because I'm NOT Okay

I don't know about you, but that's how I've been feeling, especially during the last decade when a political party decided that our citizens didn't matter and should not have a say in how our government was run.

It was a satisfactory revelation when I read that Job Burnout is not a medical issue, even if the results create medical issues. Does that make sense?

Consider this. Our body is uniquely ours. There is no other body like ours. But it deteriorates as it ages. So it changes as we get older. That's all normal for humans. We adjust as it is happening, or we have difficulty adjusting... Some of us even blame God. Or praise Him when healed, by miracle or medical assistance... Because at that point we are OK. We are happy... We have reached the level on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, of being able to feed our family. We are able to provide adequate shelter. Some have been able to work toward the next level. Feel a little more relaxed about your life. Maybe be able to afford taking a vacation... Or purchase a few luxuries for your home. Your days are less stressful...

But sporadically you are thrown back into being not Ok. 

And it is because of outside sources placing excessive pressure on you...

That was why I was relieved when the world health group recognized that Job Burnout is indeed not a medical issue. It is a result of not being treated as a human is supposed to be treated. That may mean at home, at work, or right now, the Federal Government...

We have felt the change, We have seen and heard the lies spoken. We have heard them repeated over and over, as if we are stupid enough to keep believing the lies that have been proven false. We have even seen the results of that outside pressure on people such as the election workers in Georgia when the republicans were using lies, pressure and manipulation to attempt to claim that two election workers had caused a president from being elected!!! First, What type of person does that to another person? Second, Why?

Simple. The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil... Thankfully, the majority are fighting against it... Those are the Havenots... even if some of us have reached various levels of happiness in our lives, But we now know that power, money, and greed can remove it all! What a terrible tragedy that the majority of those living in America are no longer living in the land of opportunity. The evolution of a sustained effort by the Haves has been successful. A minority of our citizens are in control and out for blood... The difference now? They are no longer hiding their efforts. They thought they had "dumbed down America...

Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture. Originating in 1933, the term "dumbing down" was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, meaning: "[to] revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence".^[1] Dumbing-down varies according to subject matter, and usually involves the diminishment of critical thought by undermining standard language and learning standards, thus trivializing academic standards, culture, and meaningful information, as in the case of popular culture.

In my opinion, the manipulation had begun by those greedy for money and we, the havenots began to be categorized as "lesser than" valuable as people... Even as over and over and over, those same people fought back and worked to gain more and more of that "opportunity" that was known to be found in our country...

The Results

For me? When my career was turned upside down by one man, then two men who never bothered to see me as anything but a "resource" (I'm using that word purposely--watch for it as the countdown finishes), that was the beginning of the end of nearly 40 years of working at West Virginia University. When man acts selfishly, God protects His children. Because of course, my new career in publishing had already begun...

As I have been reading a psychological suspense trilogy, I was curious about the villain character that had been created and is now evolving as the books continues. You know who I am comparing the villain with-- our highest villain we have ever known! Connecting, connecting, connecting. Suddenly I knew the major trigger for my PTSD. Machines. I see machines of every kind as a tool. I don't care about the "how" it happens. Just that what I need can be accomplished with this tool... You know, a resource--just like a typewriter, a computer, a cell phone, a dishwasher, a refrigerator... you get the idea. What has been invented so that some type of work can be finally accomplished instead of, the old days when women scrubbed clothes on a wash board... yes, that long ago...

I've even realized that women see them as tools; men see them as toys...

With that, hopefully, firmly in your mind, I'm moving into Countdown by merely saying Those Tools Started Failing... Often... Ongoing... and it became that pressure outside of my control... A machine did not function as originally. Somebody had changed it. The Haves! For more money!

I am Not OK

To be continued...