You'd think, with me earning less than $10 an hour at my day job, that I couldn't possibly have the resources to create jobs.
You're partly right.
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I can't, by myself, create jobs, but I can instigate events and such that create jobs. A few jobs. More than one.
Take this OctopodiCon project I'm working on. We've spent around $15,000 so far on it - and we're creating paying jobs for 7 people even if the paying job is only for 3 days, and the possibility that it will create more jobs next year (for 3 days), and perhaps in 5 years, it can even start paying some of the currently all-volunteer staff.
We joke that we receive unlimited unpaid vacation days and unlimited unpaid sick days and unlimited unpaid holidays with some of the best co-workers ever.
If the Junior Sprockets Youth Club that's developing out of OctopodiCon gets traction, that's even more jobs I'll be creating.
There's also the Monthly Tea meetings that are also gaining traction and could begin to create jobs - also developing out of OctopodiCon.
This one idea, OctopodiCon, is a job creating idea.
Creating jobs isn't really all that hard once you get past the set-up and all. With decent investors (who are not job creators - they are job supporters), those of us with the job creating ideas can go far in creating jobs for those who need them.
Job creators are more than just job creators - they are also, by definition, job supporters. A lot of the things I do require people to be employed for me to be able to do them.
That car I drive? requires the auto industry and the gasoline industry and the auto repair industry and the tire industry to exist. That's a lot of jobs I support by driving a car.
That house I live in? Man, I supported a ton of jobs buying that house - architects, zoning employees, house builders, roofers, carpenters, electricians, painters, bricklayers, fencers, natural gas workers, plumbers (oy! the plumbers!), cabinet makers, carpet makers, lumber yards, brick yards, and that's before we get to the realtors and mortgage companies, the banking regulators and the bankers, the IRS, the city and county zoning boards, and code enforcers. And then, furnishing the house, and maintaining the property - the arborists for the health of the trees, the mowers, the clippers and chainsaw, the tool manufacturers. Then, of course, there are the utilities and the taxes that house generates to support the schools and roads and bridges and interstate and intrastate commerce and foreign commerce and the military and the politicians.
Then we move to the cheaper things - food and clothing - two huge industries even though I tend to do a lot of my own here - I make some of my own clothes and grow some of my own food. I still buy enough to support both industries and their subsidiaries.
If I were better paid, I'd create more jobs and take vacations and travel, which means supporting the hotel and restaurant industries, and possibly the trains and buses. I'd definitely be supporting the tourist industry.
I am one person, but my little paycheck gets divvied out to pay thousands of people so I can maintain my lifestyle. Thousands. My little paycheck supports thousands of jobs.
I am a job supporter.
You are, too.
The job support I do far, far exceeds the ability I have to create jobs.
I can do both. I am doing both.
Pulling my hair out and struggling, but still doing both. Because I can.
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