Here's to The Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels.

Day 1,782, 22:57 • Published in USA USA • by Jon Malcom

Dear America and Rick Von Ruger,

It's been a long week for us all. We've elected Pfieffer as President, we've defeated the AFA from PTO'ing us (for now), and we've arrived at a special time called Saturday night.
Some of you are getting drunk, studying, texting, or doing a million other things and that's fine because you were going to do that anyway. We are creatures of habits.

I guess I had something to talk about so let me talk about it now.

I was laying tile at my church today, we had a massive workday going on, the whole church was moving fast painting doors, cleaning, and well of course we laid tile down. I had never laid tile in my life, it's not that I have never done physical labor it's just that construction was never my strong point.




Picture😛 Some dude standing on tile.


I was the "roller" for the tile guys who would place the tile down. See you need a guy who peels off the adhesive backing on that tile and then hands it to a guy on his knees who carefully lays it down and slowly but surely builds a floor. As soon as the tile is laid they need someone to come by and use a roller to press it on the floor and a liquid that has been mopped that glues it down firmly.


Picture😛 Not me but that is the type of tool I used.

I used the roller for about 30 minutes and almost passed out, between three guys laying tile, squatting to roll, and using a lot of force I was exhausted. I burned through a Gatorade and it didn't help. I chugged another and my sweat started to slow as my body cooled off.

Anyone who tells you to drink water while you exercise (heavy exercise) is a fool, if they cite that Gatorade has sugar you cite that it has sodium and the sodium will get your body to stop sweating because salt holds water. Wind on sweat is how our body cools itself.

You will literally drink a bottle of water and sweat that bottle out in ten to fifteen minutes.

Without Gatorade I would've died several times now from heatstroke. When it seems like I am dripping sweat (which I do) I don't drink water, I drink Gatorade. There must be a reason the Gators switched from water to Gatorade. Newsflash: Sugar from Gatorade won't kill you unless you're diabetic.

It doesn't matter if the guy who tells you is in the Army Reserve either, you can have a bad observation and work in the Army.

I walked around and turned to someone and said "Well that's another job I know I don't want to do in my life."

She replied with "You say that a lot, why don't you start liking the jobs you do?"

I realized that I had come to a conclusion as I replayed that moment over and over in my mind today.
It wasn't until I got my Dan Miller newsletter in the email and saw this quote from Thomas Edison that it cemented what I knew.


On a cold December night in 1914, Thomas Edison’s factory burst out in flames that consumed all of the inventor’s current projects and much of his life’s work.
At 67 years old he watched everything he had worked for being destroyed in front of his own eyes. The next morning, Mr.Edison looked at the ruins of his factory and said this of his loss: “There’s value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God, we can start anew.”

I have had about 8 jobs this year. I thought I had a real good job going until two weeks ago and he laid me off.
I finally realized that maybe the reason I hate working for others is because I am different.
Some of you think you have security in your job but you don't.
I thought I had security in mine until he said "it's just not working out".

I know two things about myself now.

1. I know I don't want to work at Sears as a salesman making 1% commission, or making sandwiches at Subway while getting yelled at and treated poorly, or being a night stocker who works on understaffed crews etc...I know my mark on the world won't be a tile layer or a lawn mower.

Case in point: I may not know exactly what I want to be but I definitely don't want to do those things.

2. I want to be an entrepreneur and a successful one at that.
People that work for others have told me that even the business owners have a boss called a customer. If you want to look at it like that you are right.

I say they have an opportunity to be successful and to trade their product/service for money from someone they call the customer. No one tells me when to show up and if they do they don't treat me like crap, or breathe down my neck on rules.

I don't know what you want or what you like or what you're talented in.
Choose today or tonight what you will do. It doesn't have to be a career in medicine for 40 years.
Maybe you want to act, write programs, or run a lawn care business.

Please don't read this article and disregard it to text your friend, please don't shut the computer off and go to bed without thinking about what I am saying.

People who are twice my age and older are starting to say the same thing.
"You sure are industrious."
I got laid off Tuesday and started mowing lawns Friday in the fall.
You're damn right I'm industrious.


I am only 21 and I don't know exactly what I want but I do know one thing.

I want to be free.




-Steve Jobs.