i just got an email offering me a job for $30/hr.

i'm assuming it's bullshit. but, here's the funny twist - i have been headhunted, and i've been headhunted by...

...csis.

that's the canadian cia.

i told them to fuck off. at the time, i was working, but i didn't want to work for the government - that was a rejection on moral grounds. i just didn't want to work for an organization that does what csis does. i was hoping to get something a little less heavy, in the private sector,

in the long run, i learned that there isn't really a private sector in canada, or not in the way you'd imagine it. the dominant contractor in the private sector is the state. that is, you can work for the state directly, or you can work for the contractors that the state hires, but you're working for the government, in the end - or you're working in a coffee shop.

i would have preferred the coffee shop, but they never called me back.

at this point in my life, the idea of sitting in an office is not acceptable to me. i'd be terrible at it, really. i just wouldn't want to be there. my skill set may seem appealing from a distance, but i just don't have the patience to bullshit it any more - i wouldn't want to be there, and i wouldn't pretend i do.

but, you might imagine my life would be different if i made $30/hr. that's, what, $60,000 a year? what the hell would i do with that?

buy a car!

nope...

buy a house!

eh. probably not.

buy a boyfriend!

definitely not.

i could maybe buy a few guitars.

you know what i'd actually do with it?

i'd get the cheapest apartment i could find, bicycle to work and then dump the money into stocks. if i can dump $100,000 into the market after a few years, it shouldn't take long to live off of the dividends.

because that's what i want. i don't want a mortgage. i want a guaranteed annual income.