2012

When I was in high school, my mother kept pushing the idea of me following a career that would allow me to work from home.

As a 17 year old, this conjured up images of me being alone at home, "vrotting" away by myself, meeting no-one and exploring nothing of the outside world.
The corporate world, with it's fake smiles, corporate dressing and medical aid benefits seemed so much more appealing.

Little did I realise that 5 years down the line, working from home, would be one of my greatest desires, the corporate world would have chewed up and spat out different parts of my soul and all my ideas about life and living would be toppled.

The breezer believes it's 2012. A movement of consciousness that won't allow people to remain living the dull, empty lives they've been allowing themselves to live.

The 90's saw a move away from the traditional 9 to 5 job as well as the traditional "stay in one job your entire life" mentality.
The 2000's were career driven, with people having set paths and single-minded goals. It was school, then university, then entry into corporate life where you attained as much on the job working knowledge as you could and worked as many hours as you needed to to make ur directors sufficiently rich.
People were okay with being paid almost nothing because they decided they could live off loans and both parents could work and they would make a living that way.

Then, the recession hit. And everything came crumbling down. People lost their jobs and could no longer pay for the things they planned to pay for off their

salaries. The retrenched people realised they couldn't find jobs and their mystique with the corporate world fell away. They decided to open their own businesses or find alternate ways of earning money.

People are starting to do what they love, rather than just live the lives society dictates they live. I have images of Maslouw's hierarchy of needs and us, as a society moving up and bettering ourselves as each of our needs gets fulfilled.

I hope I'm right.