Ted Nugent: On integrity, work and using gifts you're given

Waco Tribune Herald ^ | May 18, 2003 | Ted Nugent

[Chuckster]

Ted Nugent is 60?!?!? My G-d, that means that I am........

Depressed d;^)

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Go to the tribute page I posted (in post #3) and guess who else turns 60..... that’ll really make you much more depressed.....

[Twinkie]

Well, Mark, you know how it is . . money talks . . it usually says “goodbye” more often than it says “hello”. - I know what you mean . . I really love Twinkies . . if I could figure out how to sit around all day eating Twinkies and get paid big money for it . . that would be nice.

[GOP Poet]

great advice. Ted don’t forget about God though. As much as we humans intend anything and work for it, He has his own plans for us and makes it known, disregarding or overriding our own designs. Usually though His intervention is much more fruitful and enriching then even our own best fantasies. Summary . . . good advice, but we are not God just human. Plan for that too.

[southern rock]

If you are paid a dollar, give your employer $10 worth of effort in return.

I love Ted and all... but he lacks a basic understanding of free market economics. All transactions are EQUAL exchanges of goods and services for compensation. Why should the employee come out on the short end of a screwjob just because they are providing the service.

[Military family member]

“If you are paid a dollar, give your employer $10 worth of effort in return.

I love Ted and all... but he lacks a basic understanding of free market economics. All transactions are EQUAL exchanges of goods and services for compensation. Why should the employee come out on the short end of a screwjob just because they are providing the service. “

I think you miss the point he’s trying to make: don’t do the least amount you can do to get by.

[RockinRight]

I don’t ask for much - just a decent house in a decent neighborhood, an occasional vacation, and a useable car.

Even just that costs more than a lot of jobs pay. So don’t give me that “shame on you” bull.

[RockinRight]

I did not know what I was going to do, but God provided, and my life opened up.

I'm glad you are secure in your faith, but somehow I don't think that telling a collection agency, or a mortgage company, that "God will provide" is going to help.

[GOP_Raider]

Not one mention yet of Ted’s draft experience.

That's not nice, I'm sure Ted does just fine usingAutoCAD. :)

[FunkyZero]

I can say with all honesty that if my employer weren’t paying me to do what I do, it would be my hobby at home. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d stiil go to work every day. He’s right, it feels good.

[grellis]

* Nobody owes you a thing. Nothing. Everything you will get out of life will only be based on what you put into it. Period.

Can I assume he's including marital fidelity in his use of the catchall "everything"?

[MarkL]

The bottom line, look for the thing that you can do better than most, you will enjoy doing it, others will notice and pay you well for it.

That's my problem... I take naps, watch movies, and am generally lazy better than anyone I've ever met. In fact, I believe that I've elevated those passtimes to a new artform. The problem is that no matter how much I search, I just can't find anyone willing to pay me to do them!

So, I guess I'll just have to be a network administrator for the next 20 or 25 years, then do those things on my own time. :-(

Mark

[MarkL]

I can say with all honesty that if my employer weren’t paying me to do what I do, it would be my hobby at home. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d stiil go to work every day. He’s right, it feels good.

Actually, it IS my hobby at home as well. My post was really sort of "tongue in cheek," but I have put off doing a lot of things in my life because I realized that to become really good at my job (which I do love) takes constant work and education. Those things that I've put off I'll eventually get to once I've retired. Things like travel, learning to really play musical instruments and write music, and maybe even getting some pets (once I'm done traveling).

Mark

[MarkL]

You know, we all go through the “bread ‘n butter” jobs, the ones that pay the bills. But, real joy is working at something you truly love, even if there might only be a “thanks” at the end of it.

If you have worked 60 to 80 hours a week for 25 years and have nothing to show for it, shame on you. If you have a certain lifestyle that you must maintain, shame on you.

I'm sorry that you missed that my post was really sort of "tongue in cheek" and a bit satirical. Actually, I do love my job. I certainly couldn't do anything for 60 to 80 hours a week for some twenty five years that I didn't enjoy. Actually, I rather love my job, for the most part. My job right now is as a network administrator, part of a 3 man team that manages some 200 or so servers and 600 remote locations. In fact, I'm taking a short break right now from upgrading the anti-virus software on 60 terminal services servers right now. And as I replied to another post, I enjoy my job enough so that it's also my hobby as well. I've been working with computers for some 25 years (professionally) in nearly every aspect, from programmer, to break/fix tech, to systems engineer, to educator - I was a math/cs tutor and TA in college, and spent 4 1/2 years as a Novell instructor (a Master CNE / Master CNI), to my current job as a network administrator. The only thing I've learned over the last 25 years that I can't do is NOT work. About 10 years ago I needed to have emergency back surgery, and wouldn't be able to work or even sit for 4 to 6 weeks. After 3 days I was starting to go nuts, and after 2 weeks I walked to a client site and begged them to give me something to do (at no charge) as long as there was no lifting or sitting. I was back at work in 3 1/2 weeks.

But I also realize that I've put off a lot of things in my life in order to become good at what I do. And those are the things I'm looking forward to once I retire, probably in about another 20 years or so.

Mark

[wizr]

I’m glad you were joking. It looks like you are doing the job you were meant to do.

It seems we may have found others who cannot let go.

It takes real faith and trust, and at times to reach the very bottom, to look up and reach out for a new start.

I felt I had to hold on to what I had, until I could hold on no more. I live with less now, but enjoy living so much more.

[Captain Beyond]

bump for Uncle Ted 8-) He rocks.

[stevie_d_64]

“Wildman of Wisdom”

Ted doesn’t need to rock anymore...He is solid as a rock!

[southern rock]

I don’t ask for much - just a decent house in a decent neighborhood, an occasional vacation, and a useable car.
Even just that costs more than a lot of jobs pay. So don’t give me that “shame on you” bull.

You can thank feminism for the end of the "family wage". Before the advent of the 2 income household, almost ALL jobs paid enough for 1 man (college educated or not) to support a family of four in the manner you describe. Once the traditional housewife was fully mocked and discredited, and women were pressured to enter the workforce, wages began to universally be cut in half.

Eventually we ended up at the point we are now, where both parents pretty much have to work outside the home just to live in any normal manner, and the kids are forced into daycare - which was the radical feminists plan all alone. The goal of the left is ALWAYS to remove children from parents. Everything is designed around that goal.

[tacticalogic]

Once the traditional housewife was fully mocked and discredited, and women were pressured to enter the workforce, wages began to universally be cut in half.

We got used to seeing women in the workplace doing jobs traditionally only done by men during WWII. After the war, federal taxes began taking a bigger and bigger share of household income to finance the constant expansion of the federal government started by the New Deal.