How do you just 'pushed' into that kind of 'position'?
It's more like 'situation' than 'position' anyway.
If you are making intelligent choices, if you realize early on that you either have TIME or MONEY in this world, but almost never both, you can make your choice. You apparently chose 'money' (and tried to gather and rake in all kinds of things you thought would make you happy, selfish luxuries called 'family', 'reproduction', 'house', 'wife', etc... why do that if you don't already have the resources required to sustain them?).
I chose time, I never had those problems. I had different problems, but I was determined to get my reward, so now I finally have it, after a lot of struggle and fighting against unreasonable entities, I reached my goal of time.
I don't have much money, but I am heckuva lot happier than if I had money but no time, I am sure.
For I have the luxury people always complain not having enough of; time.
I wonder why so many people choose money and then complain they don't have time. All you had to do was make a different choice, come hell or nagwater; if you work hard enough, you will get time, but you have to be DEDICATED to getting it, as much (if not more) than if you made the choice of money.
So it's really a matter of choice. Do you really NEED those 'things' you wanted in life, or would you be able to do with less, and be happier when you have more time?
As they say, 'busy' is ALWAYS a choice. You can choose to be 'not-busy' any second you want in your existence. No one can FORCE you to be busy.
I know you think your boss has this power, but he really doesn't - YOU have the power, but you're using it to make yourself do your boss's bidding because of some motive, like 'fear of consequences if you don't'. It's all you, your boss is just a catalyst.
Of course you might get fired. Removing the source of' 'busy' within yourself might lead to removing the external structures that were helping you stay 'busy' as well. That's just how choices and life work. Enlightenment isn't easy, but there are enlightened Zen monks that are happier than you could ever be with all the possessions in the world,including all the families in the world.
No, I can't really relate to the incompetent, greedy, insane contractor-simp of this movie.
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