This is the first of expansion posts to vary my website, it's not just about Exalted but about everything.
At school we were encouraged not to work during years when we had big exams. I've only just realised what a deprived life I've had. Everyone else had mobile phones and some of them were building their own computers. They all had work outside of school and they still did well at exams. It took me seven long years to finish school. For a while it was because I thought the only choices I had were doing a job I hated or being forced to spend what should be the best years of my life stuck in a classroom when I wanted to be out there exploring new places. It's only now I've found out that having a job would have made so much difference if I could have kept one. It wouldn't have distracted me from school it would probably have improved it, partly because it would introduce me to the world outside school which was all I knew then, having never worked. It would have shown me the value of doing well ad that you got to chose a job you actually liked if you succeeded. But the crucial thing is it would have shown me the rewards of working. At school there's no reward for what you do (you just get picked on by arseholes and ignored by teachers who'd rather not deal with it than help.) If I actually had a decent steady job that I could use to buy my own stuff it would have changed my life completely. Having money forces you to be responsible and makes you grow up a lot. Having not been introduced to that experience until now my life has stagnated, gone nowhere and left me with nothing.
If you're going to have children for Christ's sake give them a job to do. It doesn't matter if it's only doing chores one hour a week. Earning money every week will make them grow up a lot faster and show them the rewards of working (yes there is a reason you spend hours at school and at home working for no pay and there's a whole world of things you want.)
Let them know what it's all for and a chance to have some of the things they want. It would have made so much difference in my life.
