Zen Career Guide

"People who view the current game as placing human survival in jeopardy are attempting to rewrite the game rules. They see the current consumption and hoarding model as a dead end, leading to the end of all play on earth. Increased population and the fact that more and more people from traditional cultures are playing this game every year put tremendous pressure on the earth's life support system(221)."

The figurative language in this book is a bit overcoming, but that is to be expected because the title of the book is Zen and the Art of Making a Living. The entire 573 page books is all about how to make a career off of being a creative human being. Essentially the book contains tricks to creating a calm successful career in various areas of art. And since I would like to become a photographer this book is coming in pretty handy. A lot of people assume that majoring in art or attending an art college or university contains aspects of egotism, but after sifting through this book, which seems to resemble an encyclopedia, egotism isn't the first thing that comes to mind when considering art. This book talks about how people view the working world. How the average Joe would think purely about money, but in actuality (according to the Zen guide) money is the last thing people should think about when considering a job. As the good Zen book says, money will follow joy must come first. Most people try to "rewrite the game rules" but if we just follow them and pay our dues, giving and taking when necessary people will put less pressure on the worlds support system. Instead of earning as much as we can as fast as we can people should focus of joy and center towards happiness. By doing this not only will everyone be happy but the world will fall into a more balanced equilibrium.