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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

Maybe it's just me but I hate it when people say they believe in "voluntaryism". It's like saying you believe in anerchy. It's an obvious misspelling and when I point this out people tend to say, "I spell it that way so the word voluntary can be in there, that way people know what it means." Nobody, not even G. Dubya, is that stupid. I'm pretty sure people can understand voluntarism. Anyways, I have a page called "Commonly Confused Words List" that takes definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary. (oed.com, not oxforddictionaries.com) And I've posted the differences between voluntarism, voluntaryism and volunteerism. Here they are: Voluntaryism: Abbreviated, Volunteerism The principle or tenet that the Church and educational institutions should be supported by voluntary contributions instead of by the State. Any system which rests upon voluntary action or principles. Now usu. with reference to voluntary labour. Volunteerism: The system of having volunteer military forces. The use of volunteer labour, esp. in the social services. Voluntarism: Philos. One or other theory or doctrine which regards will as the fundamental principle or dominant factor in the individual or in the universe. The principle of relying on voluntary action rather than compulsion; spec. with reference to political and trade-union activities. Denoting the involvement of voluntary organizations in social welfare. Am I crazy for being so annoyed by this? Hamilton called his beliefs federalism. The United States is called a democratic government. Things like mercantilism and imperialism are called capitalism. Theft is called tax. Stefan's documentary teaser ends on the problem with words. Libertarians, voluntarists and anarcho-capitalists alike are pummeled everyday with a misconception of very basic words and yet those who call themselves "voluntaryists" are, to me, a part of the problem. I find it impossible to debate "anarcho"-communists/socialists because they can't speak english. Their entire philosophy depends on and relies on redefining words. If you don't allow them to do that and try to find common ground, they'll start throwing insults and falling apart. Is it right to hold voluntarists to the same standard that we hold everyone else to? Or should I just relax and let them do whatever they want? I mean they're not harming me, I don't want them to go to jail but I think they're misrepresenting themselves and making themselves (and the philosophy) look dumb and misinformed.