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I had a conversation on YouTube this morning and some interesting thoughts were exchanged. I thought I would share them in this forum. When I was younger, I studied music at the university and my teachers told me that Berkeley was the best school for musicians but it was way too expensive for most of us. It was still the dream of most musician to go and study there. Now, today we see Antifa, BLM, feminists, snowflakes who have taken over the university. Just today, we saw images of random people being beat up by mobs and had piss pored on them. Some people paid over 20 000$ per semester to study there. At the end of their studies, they will probably have a 6 figures dept. Now think for a minute when these people will look for a job and on their resume, the name Berkeley will be writen on the piece of paper. I think the employer will say ''thanks but no thanks. We are here to work and we dont want no trouble makers here''. So a diploma at Berkeley will have a negative value. I bet that in the coming years, Berkeley will have a hard time economically because no one will want to apply at that university. Berkeley will go down in history as a synonyme of failure.

I would like to give back to the FDR community by sharing my experience and research in locating, applying, interviewing and excelling in the workforce. Everything from corporate, to small/medium businesses, information companies, to the service industry, telecom, hidden organic co-ops in Washington DC, and even gardening and fundraising where the possibilities are endless. Yes the economy is a disaster, but there is still money to be made, skills to learn, networks to leverage and life to be lived. Let's break out of our mental chains, get focused and productive and prepare the freethinkers and peaceful parents for this economy! "Maximize your mobility between sectors, skills and ways of earning income, Trust the network, not the corporation or the state." (see article below) I will be posting in the bronze, silver and gold sections so if you have not already please donate to see more posts! freedomainradio.com/donate or pop over the post office and mail in a money order. Please comment or post your questions below. To start my posts on this topic I would like to share a section from some excellent articles re-posted to maxkeiser.com by Charles Hugh Smith about an emerging group referred to as Mobile Creatives: " Mobile Creatives. This is an emerging class that ranges across many income classifications and thus cannot be described by income alone. Some earn Upper Caste incomes, others are Working Poor. This class is self-employed, free-lance, entrepreneurial, sole proprietors with adaptive skills. They may collaborate with other Creatives rather than have employees, and may have part-time jobs. There are roughly 5.5 million incorporated self-employed people in the U.S.; these tend to be professionals such as attorneys, engineers and physicians. These self-employed are generally members of the Upper Caste. The Mobile Creatives (which include small farmers, craftspeople, independent programmers, etc.) number around 10 million, or 8% of the workforce. I use the word mobile here not to suggest mobility between physical places (though that is one factor in this class’s flexibility) but mobility between sectors, skills and ways of earning income. Members of this class might take a short-term paying gig if the pay and circumstance is attractive, and then return to self-employment. They tend to foster multiple income streams and in general operate by the principle trust the network, not the corporation or the state. Some members of this class joined the cohort involuntarily, as the result of layoffs; others pursue this livelihood for its freedom, flexibility (important to parents of young children or those caring for elderly parents) and potential for self-expression. This is the “wild card” class that falls outside all conventional class/income hierarchies. It includes those seeking outlier wealth and those who have chosen voluntary poverty as a means to an independent life that they “own” lock, stock and barrel. Though this class wields little conventional financial or political power, it has a potentially large leadership role in social and technical innovations. This is the 4% Pareto Distribution that can exert outsized influence on the 64%. The other eight classes are hidebound by conventions, neofeudal and neocolonial arrangements and a variety of perverse incentives, false choices and illusions of choice, including democracy itself. " Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/04/the-changing-world-of-work-i-americas-nine-classes/#j28MyBtgqwQbbcIR.99

Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to stop in read. I am currently updating my resume and I have a huge gap in job history that I don't know how I could possibly answer to a potential employer. The gap is from late 2011 to currently. It's not that I haven't worked but, I've made many bad decisions over the last year in a half to either get fired from a workplace or to just not show up at work. The reason for that is I keep choosing places that for the most part are really bad work environments. One example is that I was a cook at a resort. While working there I would undergo constant verbal abuse from my manager. he would get in fits of rage and throw things across the kitchen. I'll try not to go too much into detail but,one time in particular I went on break without first getting his approval, which I should of in that regard. He walked by me eating and looked at me and then the food and proceeded to splash his near boiling tea water all over my food and a little onto myself. He then began yelling at how he wished he and the rest of the cook's could eat and after his rant he then sent me home. That was an extreme example of similar job experiences I've dealt with. So, I'm not sure what to do on my resume that would excuse this gap in my work history. Should I just go ahead and put it down anyways?