Destiny and Existentialism Through Life's Journey

Have you ever asked you why did’t you get the jobs that you applied for? There is a reason for it and the reason may not be what you think it is, social factors, such as racism.

When I was at college, I did all sorts of jobs (that is one good thing about the USA, you can do all sorts of jobs, especially during the summer months and that way get to know what kind of jobs you like doing and are good at doing).

I worked in a bank as a teller, worked at selling insurance and real estate, worked at selling cars and at stores as store checkout cashier and many other kinds of jobs. From doing these jobs I learned that I did not like to stand on my feet for hours on end. If I stood on my feet for a couple of hours pain shot through my legs and it would be torture to continue doing so, so I had to quit such jobs, even if they paid well.

I once worked in a factory that paid close to $20 an hour, an excellent pay for a student, but the problem was that I had to stand at one place for eight hours, every day, doing the same thing as the conveyor belt took materials from one worker to another and he did his bit as it moved on. My legs were on fire and after two days of that torture I quit that job and got a clerical job that I could sit down to do it, even though it paid half of what that factory job paid. My health is more important than money.

After college I tried doing other kinds of jobs. On paper I would seem qualified (I had the right degrees) and would not get called for an interview for such jobs. This bothered me. I gave the situation a great deal of thinking. It is easy for a black man to attribute everything to racism but whereas racism is real it is not the only reason people do not get the jobs that they applied for.

OUR UNCONSCIOUS MINDS AND SPIRITUAL SELVES PLAY ROLES IN THE JOBS WE DO

I believe that each of us has a higher self. The higher self begins in what we might call our ego unconscious or subconscious mind and segues to our spiritual selves.

The ego is not just the self that you are conscious of, it has an unconscious/subconscious part. Your subconscious part knows what you are good at doing and ought to be doing. Your conscious mind merely goes for what seems the right job for you.

I did not get most of the jobs that I applied for because my subconscious mind, and, ultimately my spiritual self, did not want me to get such jobs; it felt that such jobs would be a waste of my time; it felt that I came here to earth with a mind to doing a certain type of work and ought to seek it out and go do it.

(The nature of the jobs that one’s higher self does not want one to do is irrelevant; I had to quit professorial jobs and executive director jobs simply because I did not feel comfortable doing them.)

At a higher level, each of us knows what he is good at doing and ought to be doing, but social appearances might prevent one from doing such jobs and one goes on seeking other types of jobs and either not getting them or when one gets them one feels that doing them is a waste of one’s time.

My higher self-did not want me to keep wasting my time by applying for all kinds of jobs doing which I would be wasting my time.

My higher self-wanted me to do a combination of scientific psychology, physical science, and spirituality in what I now call spiritual science and use both to provide the world with books, articles and workshops and public lectures on how to live egolessly.

When one lives egolessly one contacts one’s real self, which I call unified spirit self, aka the son of God.

Until one does what one is best suited to do one is wasting one’s time. If you do what you are fitted to do you tend to do it well and tend to feel like you are using your talent and time well and the universe tends to open doors for you to do it and make money from doing it.

The German poet, Goethe said that when one is committed to doing what one is good at doing and that serves social interests that somehow all people, even the universe knows it and does what they can do to enable one do that job well, and doors open for one and one gets what one needs to get to do that job that serves humanity well.

The first order of business if you want to do a job that you are a fit for is for you to understand the nature of your ego self-concept, your personality and make it healthy.

Clinical psychologists do give personality and Intelligence tests; one ought to do those tests; in my experience they tend to give one accurate feedback on one’s personality and IQ.

NO WORK EXPERIENCE IS WASTED

Whereas it would have been nice if one had the foresight to know what line of work is good for one and go for it, if one had done many other jobs before finally discovering what one is good at, somehow all the other jobs one did are useful experiences that enable one to do well what one is now doing; so, no work experience is wasted.

One was meant to do the jobs one did as training for doing the current work one is doing!