Once More Into the Breach

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I am now employed — starting Monday, I will be working at a major Minnesota insurance company. The gig is at a good pay rate, reinforces my health care background, and is going to be the first step in establishing financial independence as I move forward. Hunting for a job was very scary, and it reminded me of just how screwed up it is to work for someone else, where one always relies on someone else’s action for their employment. That experience was harrowing and degrading, and I didn’t take well to it: it’s really fostered and bolstered my entrepreneurial spirit, and sincerely driven me to break out of the corporate world as soon as possible. As always, I have a couple of ideas as to how I might do this, but we’ll start with working for my own corporation that works for other people — at least there I get to decide my own benefits and get out from underneath taxes. We’ll see what else I do later on.

In other beginnings, I am going to be joining the Scottish Rite the week after next. The Freemasons, in general, are a pretty accepting and open-minded group — what would you expect from the organization whose principles spawned the acceptance principles of the United States? But, as much as the Freemasons may be accepting, the the Scottish Rite (an appendent body to Freemasonry) really takes the cake. This is the mission of the organization:

To seek that which is of most worth in the world;
To exalt the dignity of every person;
To maximize our service to humanity;
To aid the individual’s search in God’s universe
for identity, for development, and for destiny.
Thereby, to achieve better men in a better world,
happier men in a happier world,
and wiser men in a wiser world.

And this is the creed:

The cause of human progress is our cause,
the enfranchisement of human thought our supreme wish,
the freedom of human conscience our mission,
and the guarantee of equal rights to all peoples everywhere,
the end of our contention.

(Cite)

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