"Hard work never hurt anyone"

it's occult knowledge, but I'm gonna let you in. The aging process is actually caused by loss of sexual energy (ejaculation of semen in men). if you conserve and cultivate the energy, you can stop or reverse the aging process. Physical exercise is not harmful to the body, unless your health is already compromised prior to the work and you don't know it.

Probably the best post in this topic.

How could it not have counted as a job for disability? Were you working for under the table pay? Or not paying your social security taxes?

I was a landscaper. I mowed lawns. I did it for cash. There are no records. I paid the government nothing. Now I wish I had. I mowed about 13 lawns a day. 3 days a week. 5 hours a day. For 16 years. Until I got sick. Then it was 10 a day, then 8, then 5. Then I was too sick to keep doing it. Now it takes me 3 hours to do my own lawn and soon I may have to pay someone else to do it.

Hard physical labor in the 90+ degree heat. For years on end. Too hot or too cold never figured in to it. Didn't matter, did it anyway. Sick? Too bad. Work anyway. No days off unless it rained.

I never hired anyone to help me. When my kids were young I forced them to help so they could understand what hard work was. It worked. They make far more than I ever did and they do not get dirty or tired working.

No, I did not participate in the tax thing. I paid enough sales taxes. I never took food stamps or other help. I paid my own way and was proud of it. Now I need help. Not because I was lazy. But because I did the hot work in the sun that the rich lazy folks did not want to do.

Now I am worn out. I can't even flip burgers. I really wish I had stayed a file clerk. I was good at it. And it never got me tired.

I think the idea is that in order to succeed you need to try hard and often to work hard rather than sitting around being lazy. It is not to work so hard you turn old before your time. There is a difference between working smart and working hard.

Good post. As the saying goes: Work smarter, not harder.

Honestly, it took me awhile to figure out that it's not what you know but who you know. You have to acquire the right acquaintances in order to get ahead in anything these days or else you will be looked on as one of the throw-away people who get relegated to the low-end of the job market. If you are smart enough and get sent there, you can work your way up a bit but it's always easier to know somebody who can help you get what you want without all that effort. I've done both and the latter is more productive.

i knew a woman. wonderful, strong, talented woman.

she was a black belt in karate.

she worked out everyday, HARD. longer than full time hours, teaching people karate.

she was a vegetarian.

she got cancer.

she died pretty quickly and young.

in fact, she is the second vegetarian woman i've known to die of cancer.

i truly believe in this nutrition info here:

www.westonaprice.org.

weston price, in his travels of the world, answered the question: what is good nutrition.

i personally work very hard all summer, and i rest a lot in the winter.

it is also very important to BE HAPPY.

Did it ever cross your mind that maybe the expression "Hard work never hurt anyone", didn't necessarily refer to physical labour as hard work? You can be putting hard work in reading and studying, doesn't have to mean lifting heavy shit for 8 hours a day in the sun.

Now you're reminding me of that little kid who wants it all, and NOW!
The creator would not have given us our brains for no reason, that much is sure, so if at present they don't function to full capacity, they probably will one day, when the time is right.
We already are godlike, but can never be God, or even little gods, we will always be the created, even though it is to the likeness to God.
I guess it is your choice, ultimately, your free-will, whether you believe God is an alien slave-master or a loving father, choose well, because it will effect your reality.

Which is fine if you have people skills. I have none. Don't know anyone, never had any friends. Don't like people.

Nepotism is killing this country and needs to be outlawed in all it's forms.

Well, that's never going to happen, unfortunately. Still, I don't agree with the hard work is bad theme. I consider hard work to be more of a generalized type of thing. You make a long-term plan A and have a back-up plan B. You work at achieving that plan by working smart and hard (not necessarily physical work) - studying, getting your credentials and experience, etc. Nobody doing extreme physical labor repetitively over the course of years is going to come out ahead in that game. But then again, the lazy-axx sitting on the couch eating bonbons and drinking beer collecting welfare isn't going to come out ahead either. You have to have a balance. Take care of your physical and mental health along the way.